Author: Kerri Elizabeth

Unbroken Wave

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Gentleness and strength co-exist for good, where cruelty lives within its own anguish and storm of core weakness it can’t overcome.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

Approaching the wind within a storm

In the dusk of night

An unbroken breeze blows by in a rush

Protection and honor stand near

Weakness lurks through the clouds

Roaring with counterfeit strength

Danger is uncovered

Revealed under the moon

Dusk is broken and starlights glimmer

Must a wave be broken to fall

Must brokenness be inevitable

Stars erupt within another cosmic space

Still seen with openness and grace

Gentleness is strength often mistaken for less

Where cruelty is another’s weakness at best

True kindness is organic unable to repress

Courage is fierce and needs not to impress

Must grief dive so deep it shatters open the skies

Yes, it must

It will be the shattering that inpsires your strength

It will be the grief that erupts your soul into its truest self

It will be the inevitable brokenness ravaging your heart

Before you start to see that grief is a gift you will need 

TO LIVE COURAGEOUSLY UNVEILED

Sunshine

To all my readers, it is with a grateful and full heart I thank you for supporting, reading, encouraging and becoming my dear friends over the years. Thank you to you all.

My writing is always evolving and changing as it has over the years as life changes and healing happens and challenges occur. I am always most inspired by the deepest challenges in life and write my best when life is cracking me wide open.

It is within the cracking open I have my biggest growth spurts and see deeper and deeper, showing me we are truly infinite energy with no end.

As we all know, energy can be used for good or for cruelty to ourselves and others, make no mistake their are both kinds and both cross paths and it is in that we will learn to be more alert, to find our deepest truths, tap into our believe system at a deeper level, It is not within churches or people but straight from the arms of our Creator.

Breathe in all your pain and all your grief and then breathe it out in fiercely placed courage and let it empower and strengthen your entire life and others, it is not for borrow or buy , it is not to be taken or left, it is yours always. USE IT or someone else will abuse it!

Clarity from the Blur

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It is in your reflection you’ll find your scars, it is in your heart you’ll let go of sight and feel the light!

~SUNSHINE~

Reflect on your peace

Fine tune the blurred lines

Focus on what moves you

Reveal your reflection from the core

Clarity is submissive to focus and their rythym perfection

Dance in the light and sing in the rain

Develop strength based on love

Allow resistance to be set free

Abundance and love release clarity

Reflect again on your peace

Release what persists as pain

Triumph in the peace you will gain

SUNSHINE

As I get older less rattles my core. Hold close the ones you love and trust, spend the moments of your life leaving a legacy of love and kindness, share in your knowledge and receive wisdom as a gift in the expedition of a great life.

There will be bullies and sandpaper people that without knowing sand down your edges and force you to look deeper and wider into life, love, freedom and the beautiful journey in choice. We all have a choice to make everyday great. Loss can shake you but it can not break you or steal your spirit. Thank them for the push to educate yourself further, to broaden your knowledge, become stronger and to search your most authentic self deeper, thank them for teaching you what is not love so that real love clears up all the blurred lines.

It is those sandpaper people that push you off the cliff of paralysis into the bliss of possibilities and blessings beyond limits. Do not get caught up in another’s revenge and need for control and remember peace is abundant with clarity and it is the journey there not the arrival that make us who we are.

Significance

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Significance is built from the blocks of experience and the wisdom you choose to gain.

~Kerri Elizabeth~

Travel your heart through every part
Colors will emerge
There will be memories that
have been submerged
Adrenaline seeps through the cracks of time
Where a rushing of reality grows like an ivy vine
Presence is precarious
Settle in the sunrise
One heartbeat at a time
Like a jet stream
Significance arrives

Sunshine

Significance is built over time, it is your experience, kindness, ability to let go and the significant ability we each have to gain wisdom rather than be hardened by pain.

Pain will erupt and so will love, it is only in love that pain is easier to let go. It is within love that we can understand pain, it is only in love we can understand the moments of true letting go.

When I lost my son I never thought letting go could hurt so bad. It has changed my life forever and letting go as never truly happened, it is just a path way to where letting go will always be inevitable.

We often will attach ourselves to situations, animals and people along the way that we will be separated from, my son did not want to leave his family and he did not want to leave this earth, but it wasn’t his choice. He was a chosen one and his time here on earth was not chosen based on my time line as his mother.

Zakary needed me to let go so he could go peacefully. For a moment I let go for him. In that I am left with a lifetime of pain, but it is within love I am finding that the deepest pains bring you the biggest blessings.

The significance of deep pain gives you significant gratitude to love deeper and live with more purpose. With that there will be the hardest moments of your life, it is the choice to live deeper, to not be shallow, to not allow others to harden you and know that there will always be another that will attempt to attach their pain to you and in that it will be your responsibility to find significance in the wisdom and not the pain.

Sometimes people have money and power and sometimes they have heart and wisdom that is priceless. Is it the one that has money and a willingness to hurt others at any cost that wins or is it the one with heart and wisdom that has to let go that has the greatest blessings?

 

 

SILENCE

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It is within grace we are defined and secure, it is within love healing replaces our scars.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

Situations will challenge your pace

People will stretch your capacity and space

Your faith will balance you in this place

Defense will rear its playful head

These are the times silence is where you tread

Everyones actions and voice tell a story in time

You can choose to tell it with love

You can choose to tell it with any emotion but love

However when the story is told

It will reflect the heart space we hold

SUNSHINE

There are times in life I am challenged to the place I want to explode. Where my hearts traumas react, where the past is the reaction and the present is where I need to be.

When we choose the wrong friends, the wrong relationships, the wrong space, we then choose the lesson of where we are in our own heart space.

Are we protective, are we loving, are we generous, are we doing our best, are we looking for approval, is there insecurity, shame or is there grace and love within every space.

Are we defending ourselves because another has hurt us, are we wasting energy where energy can strengthen us not deplete us ? Or is the lesson really to know who you are enough to finally be silent in this space, to be unshakeable in this place. Is the lesson really to rely on the truth you and your loved ones have built and to stand firm in this place when the earthquakes of life tries to knock you down and you just kept growing even with the storms and clouds.

DON’T let the bad breathe of the world knock you out, instead stand quieter and stronger gaining your strength and ground. That is where truth is found.

LOVE, SUNSHINE

Madrone View

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It is within the layers all things exist and it is within the layers we learn to live among the experiences that created the strength to grow.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

Under a shade tree where leaves are dancing with the peaceful melody of nature

Crackling through the small breeze I can hear them wrestling with one another in harmony

Madrone tree, you have won my heart in this moment

Feeling your presence offers protection

Standing with all that surrounds you in such beauty

Breathing life with your unaltered energy

Free to believe, to stand, to bend, to flow, to grow

Gratitude is running deep for the confidence you radiate so freely

Thank you for sharing 

For shading

Thank you for the cracks you so proudly show as warrior wounds of your life

Thank you for sharing space with the earth’s delicate growth around you

Thank you for the soul food

Thank you for speaking such volume

Thank you for the confidence to stand beyond any doubts

Thank you for the invitation into this sacred space, to be loved, to sit with the uncomfortable and linger in your zesty energy 

SUNSHINE

When I lost my son 3 years ago , I had no idea the roller coaster of emotions that would take over my body, mind and soul. I had no idea that even with so much love imbedded inside me that grief has its own path and respecting it, is vital. Healing occurs daily, but what I found out most in this 3rd year , that isn’t different than the prior years, I just didn’t figure it out until this year. That all pain lingers within grief, so when anything else hurts it opens the loss of my son again and again.

Maybe next year it’ll be different now that I figured that part out, but mostly what I want to share is that pain needs a place to feel freedom to fly, to soar and change and to grow and heal. All love remains even when pain shows up, however for someone looking in without the experience, it often is uncomfortable to see, to watch, to be patient in the process.

It is not something that is meant to be hurried or told to let go of or change. It is a personal process and every person is so different. Let it be, so it can see, so it can feel, let it be, so it move and not get stuck.

Pain is also a protector, something we hang on to in fear of letting go and being undone, or without, fear and pain dance a beautiful dance, awareness is a beautiful addition. You can dance with it or you can hold it so tight along with fear that you become unaware you’re not moving.

Move, create or find a space you feel free to feel, to think, to be all of who you are with all your emotions and feelings and then a new way will begin.

Possibility is For You

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Experience is the catch and release of the past into the present and a perception that can cleanse what we thought we knew and create possibility for you.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

 

The challenger will awake you

The inevitable will take you

The truth to our experience ravishes forgiveness, then

Overcomes our pasts and fills our presence with possibility

Memories hold us and release us with a parachute 

Constantly risking an unknown arrival

Infused into creation cleansing our perceptions

While the winds tickle the surface of your senses

Storms moves you to a sweet spot 

Showing you, reflection appears as you feel

Immerse yourself into the deepest play

Arriving without understanding

To summit upon a new experience

Unchaining the past and releasing the future

SUNSHINE

Heart Adventure

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In the most unexpected places you will feel the most unexpected language of the heart, listen, it’s telling you what it needs.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

Adventure isn’t always where you are

It’s where you’ve been

It’s where you’re going

It’s deep inside every moment

Adventure arrives in color

In memories

In feelings and emotions

Adventure will call you and resisting will have no relevance

Where you are is always the start to every adventure

Listen to your heart right now

What does it tell you

No one knows your heart like you do

It is the lifeline to every adventure

It beats according to your needs

When it hurts, adventure the pain

When it’s joyful, adventure the joy

When it needs nurturing, nurture it

When it needs love, love it

When it calls for adventure

Adventure into it

Listen

It knows

SUNSHINE

Your heart has more memory than your brain, it knows every adventure  and experience and it will show up for you when you need to be reminded or heal something or adventure an emotion or feeling. You won’t always be energetic and you won’t always be relaxed, hardships will come and go and success will also. Nothing is permanent and everything is temporary, change is inevitable and if you can’t bend with change then change will bend you. Adventure into the heart and allow it to beat solid for you, to protect you, to nurture you, to love you and return that adventure by listening to what it needs, it’s your lifeline.

Heartmath.com is one of my favorite places with heart lessons and science of your heart, that has helped me to learn how better to nurture my heart and myself!

A different View

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Perspective is an ever-changing event, a willingness to bend and turnaround, it is created through movement inside and out and inspired by experiences all around.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

Where you stand is the perspective at hand

Turn around, stand upside down

Perspective is different all around

From ones eyes, organization may apply

From another’s eyes a mess is addressed

Alignment depends on where you stand

Not an understanding of what is planned

With two views communication can be misused

There is no one that can see exactly like you

The core of who we are is the focal point of near and far

Past and present play a part

Memory is stored in our heart

Experiences inspire our perspective

Perspective is built from our experiences

Planting seeds is how the forest grows

Tearing it down gives you different results

Build your perspective with grace

Understanding it is different in another’s space

SUNSHINE

 

These photos are the exact same log with the same rock stacks, nothing was changed or moved except my view.  Sometimes when we take the time to look at things from a different view we start to see something new. Something new to learn and a different experience so we can start to see other’s views too.

Connection

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An experience requires presence, presence requires connection, both dance together on a foundation of trust and truth, without one of these a gap is left to chance.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

When paths cross 

Memories are etched in time

History is created

Lessons are learned

While the heart logs every turn

Nothing remains but an experience

In the experience we have created

Through the experience purpose is build

Among the experience shifts take place

Growth takes on new meanings

Purpose becomes more important

Loss trickles in and reminds you nothing remains

Where the heart remembers the experience you gained

Calling you to be more 

To let go of fear and failures 

To believe in your truth

To live more

To love more

To connect more

To look into life with eyes from heaven

Sunshine

In this unsettled time in life and a global distress, an awakening of emotions and connection has become clear. We want more connection, more authenticity, more of each other and less separation. We only have this moment, what is next is unknown and if this moment is left without true and trusting connection, we have chosen to be alone. For some this may be exactly what you want. For most I see an awakening for deeper connections with family and friends and ourselves. 

Connect with the joys of life, pets, family, adventure, faith, believing in oneself more, growth, learning, education and so much more….. When you lay your head down at night, are you proud of yourself for all you have shared, were you kind, loving, compassionate, truthful and did you learn something new? 

Did you treat the ones you love with an inspired attitude and love, to create the love you want in return? 

Forest of Life

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In the forest of life, silence and stillness meet the curiosity of the night and calmness kisses your cheek goodnight.

~Kerri-Elizabeth~

 

In the faint hours of the night 

Silence is at its peak

Abundance appears 

Deep in the core there is so much more

There is stirring within the stillness

Overflowing tears and blessings given 

Like a kiss from heaven

Calmness settles in 

Everything stirring quiets again

Night falls upon the forest floors

Trees disappearing within heavens doors

Again a stirring occurs

Daylight sleepers have risen from the winds

Curiosity stirs again

Calmness settle in

Observe the changes within

SUNSHINE