Dear ones, are you aware of the shadow that follows you
Are you prepared for life to crack you open
And shine the brightest light beams past the surface
In our deepest prayers we ask for strength
We ask for connection
Infinite love
We ask for healing
For our dreams to land into the shape of our imaginations
We believe mountains can be moved
That thunder rumbles from the heavens
That love is everlasting and passion pulses within us
Are you prepared to be broken open
To be molded and mended a new
To be aware of the shadow that follows you
You must experience your presence within it
SUNSHINE
When I was in my early 20s I remember praying for God to have me experience whatever I needed to , in order to be helpful to others. I always wanted to be a good listener, that took me years to realize I wasn’t as good as I thought I was. My kids told me that. I listened for countless hours to their stories and moments and spent late nights up with them listening to their days.
Then one day I asked my son what he would change about me, something I had the power to change, not something I already did I couldn’t go back and fix. He answered this,” I wish you would listen first without a response and without a reaction and make me wait to come back and debate the point after you processed it.” He wanted to be able to debate NOW, not later, to be heard fully without my own processing, because to him that meant he wasn’t heard and I was gearing up for a reaction.
That wasn’t my take on it, however I changed that as fast as I could and learned a response or reaction wasn’t even necessary. He just wanted to be heard fully and completely and acknowledged for it without any response from his mom.
Later I learned my daughters felt the same. This left me feeling as if I was never to be heard and I had no say in any matter at all without them feeling as if I was one over them.
Frustration for years surfaced and often still I am reminded, we all want to be heard, a response is not always necessary or needed and a reaction is always best left beyond the shadows.
Its in the details we experience wonder!
~Kerri Elizabeth~
In the details an image is created
Reflection is stated
In wonder we are inspired
Listen to the vibration
The living breath of creation
Stay and pray
Answers will wake you
They may shake you
They may disappoint you
They may leave out details
Persevere
Answers are in the details of creations reflection
SUNSHINE
Behind the lens of our heart we will see beauty and we will see pain, both intertwined to express our deepest love.
~ Kerri -Elizabeth~
Presence preserves our light
Focus on the glory it provides
Mastery belongs to the universe
The earths pulse says, “walk with me”
Rain drops dance on every tree
Stars unravel wisdom
Love is where you’ll find me
Sunshine
Grow forth from your roots and reach for the stars, nothing in-between can tatter or scar the core of who you are!
~Kerri Elizabeth~
Bloom into the love you were meant for
Open and color will drizzle a painting upon your heart
Petals one by one come alive in the sun
Grounded and synced with earths love
Grow and reach from the soil to the stars
Extensions of leaves will balance beliefs
Roots will hold you tight
Cheering as you take flight
The sky is within reach
Stretch to the sun 🌞
SUNSHINE
I learned this last few years , grounded does not mean where you live, who your with or why your there. To me it showed me grounded meant the willingness to connect. Connection to the core and roots of who I am, grounded means to listen to your heart, your soul, your body when it says it hurts or its cold, feels unloved or needs to be held. Connection to what you feel, the emotion that rushes through you and says,” I want attention, I need you, I want to love you and be here for you”, will you listen?
Grounded means the ability to connect to your core truths, hear your intuitions and follow them, leave doubt behind and follow the heart , the pain, the migraine, the body pains, what is it telling you?
It is there FOR YOU, it’s your own private novel of truths about how YOU as an individual work. It is your manual everyone says they wish they had. YOU DO, ITS YOU!
Everything becomes a memory, make your present worthy of it!
~Kerri Elizabeth~
As the mist rolls down my face
A memory embraced
Where unfiltered fun was at our finger tips
Where we raced grocery carts at night
Where trees had secrets
And dusk was not our weakness
Where coins held doors
And smiles never stopped
Where roadtrips held memories
That last for centuries
Where soul talks lasted hours
And notes where written on napkins
Where we defined spontaneous
In a constant mist of laughter
SUNSHINE
We must come undone and feel to heal.
~Kerri Elizabeth~
It is in the allowing to feel
The very disintegration of turmoil
To be cremated and set free in the breeze
In the heartbeat a recorded voice speaks
A whisper and rage to escape the cage
Trauma re-arranges the perceptions
A willing adventure through the hearts chambers
Offers a solid embraced tour of compassion and love
Inside of everyone is an invitation to come un-done
To walk in the storm of emotions and scream
The need to be seen by the source of our being
Turn around and you’ll see
Being still only for a moment in the turmoil and defeat
It is only in the thought the light is absent
Turn around, you’ll find
The light was always filling you on the other side
Dance now
Let the light fill every side
Sunshine
Nature projects different views for you to adventure through. Those views were not set in place to be a judgment of person or place but an adventure through your most inner sacred space.
~Kerri Elizabeth~
Stretch your limbs
Below the suns rays
Watch your shadow appear
A distortion of reality
So clear
But is it you
Magnified in this view
So different
Then the reflection in a mirror
Which one are you
The reflection on the water
The shadow on earth
Or the soul observing
How you view
SUNSHINE
Reflection is in the eye of every beholder, linked perfectly to expression and emotion, where the heart goes is where your truth shows.
~Kerri Elizabeth~
Embrace the reflection
Limb by limb again
Rightside up
Upside down
Significant details are profound
Imagine that was you
In the reflection and truth
What would you see
With no mistaking
Limb by limb
Wrinkle by wrinkle
Do you love what you see
Like the reflection of this tree
Sunshine
This is a beautiful surprise and a wonderful award of Sunshine to my Sunshine. Thank you to my blogging friends https://awakeningwildflower.com/, I am always inspired by your stories and your journey to healing is amazing, your an angel yourself.
Thank you Sally also for nominating me and giving me the opportunity to share with your followers as well , I love the smorgasbord you have and resonate with your passions for so many things https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/:
The Sunshine Blogger award is given by bloggers to bloggers who inspire positivity and creativity in the blogging community. I am very honored to have been nominated.
The rules for accepting the award are as follows:
Thank the Blogger who nominated you.
Nominate 11 new blogs to receive the award and write them 11 new questions.
Display the rules and the Sunshine Blogger Award logo in your post.
Here are the questions given to me to answer from Sally G. Cronin’s, https://awakeningwildflower.com/, https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/:
1.Can you tell us about yourself in 100 words or less?
I am a nature wanderer and lover of life, a waterfall luster that includes swimming for miles(literally) feeling my most freedom and peace there, this qualifies me as a lake lusting mermaid as well, I thought I was a mom first but they all grew up and left home and my son recently grew his wings way faster than I can process and flying the heavens in fighter jets. What I found out recently is that in all my studies and all the wonderful knowledge I have built over these years, it really comes down to I’m me and that envelopes a ton of passions that all lead to nature.
My blog was created to be all about encouragement and a creative invitation to allow your own thought provoking inspiration to bubble up, in all kinds of ways and perspectives. .
3.What is the strongest memory from your childhood?
Living in the mountains, precisely why I am so drawn to it now, it was my refuge and still is.
4.Can you tell us more about where you live and why you call it home?
I left my home, my personal training gym and spa when my son got cancer almost 5 years ago. I never looked back, it was a new journey to invest all I am and have into my child.
( A lot here in the middle)
I live in the sunshine right now and am blessed to have more than what I need and a support system around me that is rock solid unconditional love to go through the exploration of a new self after the loss of my child.
6.Is there a country that you have not visited but is on your wish list?
I would love to go to Indonesia, really, I would love to experience as many as I can in my life.
7.Who is your favorite author and why?
I love reading and have so many and my favorite changes, its completely in the moment for me. I’m usually reading new things I can grow from.
8.What is your favorite meal?
I love raw foods and am super creative with food so this one too is dependent on the moment. Id say probably fresh juice in my juicer tops it all for me.
9.What is your favorite musician and can you let us have a YouTube link so that we can listen to them? I would say anything Tim McGraw and Faith Hill …………….
10.What is your favorite film and why?
Lion King, it was always a movie my son and I watched and had mom and son dinner dates together up until his last days and then he wanted to watch Tarzan with his entire family around. I’d say those two because they remind me of him and our time. I don’t own a TV and never have so I’m not a TV or movie buff.
11.If you could live in another time.. decade or century.. what would that be?
In the 50s and 60s for sure when you could dance in the streets and there was no traffic or social media and nature was everywhere, you didn’t have to drive miles to it, and you spoke to people on the phone and not computers.
Thank you also to my beautiful friend and blogger for you questions. I loved your questions and answered them all to myself out of curiosity. https://awakeningwildflower.com/
My 11 nominees are:
https://southernactsenterprises.wordpress.com/
http://writingtofreedom.com
https://gcdiaries.wordpress.com/
https://cindyknoke.com/
https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/47208236/posts/2129
https://drandreadinardo.com/
https://rayoflight144.wordpress.com
https://sonofabeach96.com/
https://beautybeyondbones.com/
https://thetovaryshconnection.wordpress.com/
https://patticlark.org/
My 11 questions for my nominees:
1.What is your favorite food or recipe and will you please share it?
2. Do you have a pet and or more and what are their names?
3. What are 10 words that best describe you?
4.What is your favorite activity?
5.Where would you live if its not where you are now, if you could live anywhere in the world? and where is now if that is exactly where you always dreamed to live?
6. What was the inspiration to start a blog?
7. Where are you drawn more to, water or earth or sky?
8. What is your favorite color and why?
9. To get away , where do you go most?
11. What would you like most for people to receive from your blog?
Have fun and I look forward to getting to know you more and sharing!
SONSHINE FOR YOU 