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Through My Child’s Eyes

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

The journey of life is seen beautifully through the eyes of a child and the voice of their heart when you learn that listening is the most amazing part!

Kerri Elizabeth

Here is a poem from my youngest daughter to me, she wrote this when it was time as a mother to let go and set my children free. To see life another way to experience and get through my empty nest place, to travel and embrace the powers of a journey of raising 4 children and the joy it gave and to take my turn in a new growing up phase.

Cheyenne

You flew the storm with bravery and grace,

Always managed to have a smile on your face,

Though not close together

You’re still in my heart

For our mother-daughter bond could never break apart

We’re both spreading our wings,

Choosing our paths,

Mapping our dreams,

Filling all gaps,

So thank you for the push, for showing me the way,

You’re one of few that will never fade away.

So I want you to know,

No matter where life takes us,

Not even the biggest of storms could ever break us.

CHEYENNE SWIFT AKA( MY LUVBUG, MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER)

From me to my youngest child. (letters to come for the other three the impact they all make has shaped me.)

Every talk and every cry you show me so much about life through your eyes.

From the time you were born until today, you have taught me something every day.

Your honest tell it like it is heart and your courage to always get through it with a smile, the tears that not many see, I am blessed you always reveal to me.

Being best friends as well as mother and daughter, a trusting place we know we are never bothered.

 I love your feisty way you stand your ground with confidence no matter who is around.

Your siblings see their little sister, naive and often living in the clouds, on your time living your way, will she ever hurry up and do it fast so we can get going at last?

What I see is the gift you have to take the time you need for you and manage to get done exactly what you need to do.

You are such a beautiful soul, a heart of gold and a tough exterior you work hard to up hold.

Underneath that solid gold there is a butterfly breaking through that hold, she’s colorful and fun, wants to be free, from anyone telling her, be careful, you must see.

I see mighty wings growing on you, watch out life, she’s coming for you.

You get to choose your path, your life is yours, no matter where you go or what you do, no matter if you’re alone happy or blue, you own your life and you get to choose the path that is best for YOU.

Gratitude and grace are given to you, God made the way for you to go, he paved the world just so, for you to learn, for you to experience ,for you to decide where you are called, to show up in life and be bold.

Some will not like it, some will try to stop it, some will criticize it, some will shine light on it, some will try to dim it, some will try to throw fire in it, some will love it, some will encourage it, some will listen to it, and some will give their opinion of it.

All of these things help shape our character, they challenge us and push us, they show us and they teach us, it’s up to you how they pass you, and what they will teach you, it is up to you to allow what will move you or stay with you, what I know for sure is nothing can break you.

Before the day you were born I knew you would make an impact, yours was the name in lights in my dream, it was solid and real It spoke to me clear,  she will brighten the days and the nights, she will shine wherever she goes because she was made perfect in His sight.

I love the questions you courageously ask the depth of your desires and the dreams you have.

I love you my sweet daughter to the depth of my core, I love you my sweet daughter everyday even more and my capacity to love you continues to grow with every single moment we share together, telling secrets, sharing tears, laughing until we can’t even hear.

Thank you for being my youngest child, for teaching me to take my time, I learned while letting you go at your pace that life isn’t a race, this isn’t a dress rehearsal for a later show , live the way you choose to go.

 Smell the roses so many say, you showed me it’s also the path to the roses along the way.

I could of course carry on this letter for days with all of the ways you breathe life into me.

 I will continue for life to love you and meet you where you are and encourage your journey and listen to your hearts excitement for more.

LOVE ALWAYS AND FOREVER, YOUR MAMA

The Intimate Details

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

When we see ourselves as a whole, the whole can be healed without a hole.

Kerri Elizabeth

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The intimate details are authentically yours, your choices, your thoughts, your movement, your feelings, your honor, your path and even resilience.

Authentically yours, ownership of all of you, your value, your commitment, your voice, your belief, your acceptance, your touch, your smile, your intuitive way you think.

There are events that happen in our life, we experience them, we live in them, we feel them, and we often get stuck in them, for a moment or for a while.

 The possibilities to move forward show up in our life, we can take them and accept the gift they give or we can resist and be full of what we choose to relive.

There is no question as to the authenticity of this experience; the question is our perception and the size we created it.

The capacity at which we grow is left to the room we allow ourselves to organize, let go, give away and allow the ebb and flow of the path least resisted instead of over control.

Life won’t stop with a simple thought, overwhelm and fear won’t make time disappear.

 Anger and hurt will grow inside the same as love and compassion will if you decide.

What will you choose your capacity to be, will you wait and wonder if you are as deep as the sea and drown in thoughts you have the right to set free?

Our bodies regenerate all the time, they do it whether you decide to accept or decline.

You have the chance to grow and regenerate every day; you have a choice to regenerate the thoughts and make them new or continue to brand the old to the new.

The regeneration is happening for you, you don’t have to buy it, or find it or give it a name, it is, it’s a gift , it’s for you and me, It’s free don’t take for granted what you can’t see.

The intimate details of our life’s experience are owned and changed and loved and accepted, left for later, protected and deflected.

Often an event or something that doesn’t feel good is seen as something that doesn’t serve us, wanting it to go away, for it to go back to what it was before it came.

 It’s the perfect sign that brings us to be aware of what isn’t serving us to take time and be aware, it is a beautiful reminder that healing is taking place that YOU are already where you need to be, accepting the place where you’re at is the only place you can move forward out of that.

Authentically present with our intimate feelings and thoughts, our mind and body are all one, sharing one without the other is giving you only part of yourself.

A connection of our mind and body as one remind our soul that we have just begun, this new starting place is invigorating and free, now ultimate healing is accepted in place of the doubt that creation of you as a whole needed to be found and made, it’s already done, it was given to you and by not accepting it, you let go of all of YOU.

Authentically and intimately love all of you, picking and choosing one part of the ocean earth and sky doesn’t separate the divine infinity of the connection given for each of YOU, one small change brings change to it all.

Healing and happiness, love and joy, sadness and pain, fear and rejoice, the connection is made as the ebb and flow, the least resisted path we can all choose to go.

“Raise” of Sunshine

You Are A Diamond

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

Between the depth of the sea and the height of the sky, between the moon and the sun and the stars all combined is a connection so truly divine.

Kerri Elizabeth

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Diamonds in the Sun

We shine every one of us, like diamonds in the sun.

Every ripple of water holds the most amazing energy and carries thoughts like the water carries a wave.

Every wave a moment in life, it can flow by you, it can flow around you, on to you or to you.

The strength of each wave varies in speed and in force leaving acceptance for the course.

The impact of the shine is in the intensity of how you see it in your time, the amount of water, the amount of space on the surface, all together for a purpose.

The diamonds move around the surface, they bump into each other; they pass with beauty and untamed courage to shine with no fear.

They stay on the top showing the darkness, it’s a beautiful place out here.

What is beneath that shine when the diamonds on the water seem to disappear when the sun goes down and darkness appears?

The shine on the surface never worries about the darkness below, it allows the darkness to find its way, it invites the dance, it’s ready to go, it’s there to show, it’s there to glow.

When the sun goes down the moon takes hold, the light seems to always show, the diamonds are revealed again and again, they dance in the sun, they dance under the moon, they never give up or get discouraged or assume.

There is one Bright star that shines so far, it shows up first no matter where you are.

The bright star and the moon, the sunshine, the diamonds, the waves, the surface, the sky, the darkness, the stillness, the calm, the depth, the surface, it’s all one.

Separating the surface from the depth would leave space in our minds to expect, in reality there is no space between the surface and the depth, letting go of the space is letting them connect.

Into the depth of healing is a connection and feeling, allowing the diamonds to be part of the shine and not separating them to define one from the other instead of allowing them to be connected all the time.

The water and the waves, the moon and the sun, the diamonds that dance, the connection is so enhanced.

There is no space between the gravity of this place, it all works together from the depth of our place, from the sky to the land, from the air to the water, from the stars to the sunshine, and we need it all to matter.

It’s clear and concise, we were made whole, and any doubt of that leaves our ego to take hold.

The diamonds dance on the surface showing darkness the balance and purpose.

The waves move to the moon without questioning and arguing that was too soon, too late or maybe I’ll try again later I assume.

The brightest star shines every night; it never says tomorrow I might.

There is no stopping the waves, the sun, the moon, the stars, the air, the movement, the gravity of this place.

Let your light shine like diamonds and your movement be the waves, let your darkness be connected so it can roll into the light and continue to change.

Let your love be the air it is always there, breathe it in and breathe it out and take the time to shout that it is all connected perfectly for you to live without any doubt.

I LOVE YOU WITH EVERY “RAISE” OF SUNSHINE!

You Are A Diamond

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

Between the depth of the sea and the height of the sky, between the moon and the sun and the stars all combined is a connection so truly divine.

Kerri Elizabeth

 2015-05-19 17.28.40

Diamonds in the Sun

We shine every one of us, like diamonds in the sun.

Every ripple of water holds the most amazing energy and carries thoughts like the water carries a wave.

Every wave a moment in life, it can flow by you, it can flow around you, on to you or to you.

The strength of each wave varies in speed and in force leaving acceptance for the course.

The impact of the shine is in the intensity of how you see it in your time, the amount of water, the amount of space on the surface, all together for a purpose.

The diamonds move around the surface, they bump into each other; they pass with beauty and untamed courage to shine with no fear.

They stay on the top showing the darkness, it’s a beautiful place out here.

What is beneath that shine when the diamonds on the water seem to disappear when the sun goes down and darkness appears?

The shine on the surface never worries about the darkness below, it allows the darkness to find its way, it invites the dance, it’s ready to go, it’s there to show, it’s there to glow.

When the sun goes down the moon takes hold, the light seems to always show, the diamonds are revealed again and again, they dance in the sun, they dance under the moon, they never give up or get discouraged or assume.

There is one Bright star that shines so far, it shows up first no matter where you are.

The bright star and the moon, the sunshine, the diamonds, the waves, the surface, the sky, the darkness, the stillness, the calm, the depth, the surface, it’s all one.

Separating the surface from the depth would leave space in our minds to expect, in reality there is no space between the surface and the depth, letting go of the space is letting them connect.

Into the depth of healing is a connection and feeling, allowing the diamonds to be part of the shine and not separating them to define one from the other instead of allowing them to be connected all the time.

The water and the waves, the moon and the sun, the diamonds that dance, the connection is so enhanced.

There is no space between the gravity of this place, it all works together from the depth of our place, from the sky to the land, from the air to the water, from the stars to the sunshine, and we need it all to matter.

It’s clear and concise, we were made whole, and any doubt of that leaves our ego to take hold.

The diamonds dance on the surface showing darkness the balance and purpose.

The waves move to the moon without questioning and arguing that was too soon, too late or maybe I’ll try again later I assume.

The brightest star shines every night; it never says tomorrow I might.

There is no stopping the waves, the sun, the moon, the stars, the air, the movement, the gravity of this place.

Let your light shine like diamonds and your movement be the waves, let your darkness be connected so it can roll into the light and continue to change.

Let your love be the air it is always there, breathe it in and breathe it out and take the time to shout that it is all connected perfectly for you to live without any doubt.

I LOVE YOU WITH EVERY “RAYS” OF SUNSHINE!

Pain and A Puzzle

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

A setback is only a setup for a comeback.

Willie Jollie

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A  journey through pain.

Take a breath, feel it fill your abdomen.

Let your lungs come alive, feel the air every time.

Pain sets in as a reminder to stop, look and listen.

Pain is a warning, give yourself the time, go where you can recline, be loving and kind.

Take care of your heart, your body and your mind and all that carries the beauty intertwined.

Let go of expectations, pleasing others and conflict, allow your heart to beat with time, feeling it all going out with every climb.

Let every day show the way, staying present in the healing, not missing it, not pushing it, feeling it and letting go of it.

When a setback grasps you tight, every feeling rushes in and wants to fight.

Healing is in the breathing, the remembering the believing, the moments your strength grew, the days you certainly knew.

Healing is in the love you give yourself and the love poured out where you invested in someone else.

Healing is a safe place you find where peace surrounds you and faces remind you, and love is poured into you and the wind blows around you, and the sunshine heals you and nature can feel you.

Set your feet on the earth, take your shoes off,  be heart ready, soul listening, knowledge soaked deep into the mind, the love of nature never ever resigns.

Birds singing songs, a waterfall vibrating calm, the sky is so blue, the mountains surrounding with safety speaking, “I got you, don’t worry, you’ll be up again soon!”

When you come to a physical stop, the emotional journey can reign at the top, let it heal, let it feel, let it know, let it grow, your about to see the wonderful way your body lets it all come together and feel whole.

Sometimes pieces get left behind and we search and search not realizing that the piece left behind was the very piece that was the one we searched to find.

All of our life’s experiences can be seen as part of a puzzle, when we can put it all together and see the beauty in how it unfolds, when you let the pieces come together and there are no holes, a new puzzle can now start, the next phase takes hold.

It’s amazing to me how pieces get left, lost and buried behind and how life’s journey will remind you where you left, tried to lose and buried them inside.

Show up for your pain, your happiness, your joy, show up for the moments that seem too hard to enjoy, let love , let forgiveness take a hold, let go while you love it and let it unfold.

The air is so clear on the other side when you decide to let forgiveness heal you from the inside.

“Raise” of Sunshine, let it take you to new heights and depths.

Who Are You

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

I am love ALL love, there is no doubt.
I am a daughter.
I am a mother.
I am a grandmother.
I am a friend.
I am inspiration.
I am a motivator.
I am an a@@ kicker when need be.
I am fierce.
I am strong.
I am purposeful.
I am delightful.
I am shy at times.
I am quiet at times.
I am excited.
I am hurt then I heal.
I am aware.
I am peaceful.
I am timeless.
I am confident.
I am courageous.
I am truthful.
I am authentic.
I am driven.
I know when to walk away.
I know when to stay.
I know how to let go.
I know how to be in the flow.
I know how to be firm.
I know how to learn.
I am a heart.
I am a soul.
I am full of spirit.
I am desire.
I am filled with fire.
I am encouragement.
I am responsible.
I am an athlete.
I am a life re-arranger.
I am a trainer.
I am a coach.
I am a chef.
I am an entrepreneur.
I am a rower.
I am a biker.
I am a swimmer.
I am a runner.
I am a believer.
I am a student.
I am a teacher.
I am a healer.
I am a listener.
I am a talker.
I am a lover.
I am a fighter.
I am a protector.
I am a guidor.
I am not defined by my past I am presently living into my future.
I am still.
I am fulfilled.
I have depth.
I am not stuck in a story I am presently living glory.
I am not my experience, I am a bloom from my foundation.
I am calmness with a spark of chaos.
I am sweet with a kick of spicy.
I am courageously living a legacy.

Living in the Raise of the Sunshine.

Fire in My Sky

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Be aware of the fire in your sky

Kerri Elizabeth

There is a fire in my sky and I love it.

There is a fire in my soul and I invite it.

There is fire on my mind and it inspires me.

There is a fire in my thoughts and it speaks volumes to me.

There is a fire in my day and it takes me to new heights.

There is a fire in my life and I embrace it.

There is a fire in my life and I feel the heat.

There is a fire in my life and I love the flames.

There is a fire in my life it moves me.

There is a fire in my life and the flames are a miracle.

The fire I see inside is

Intense

Tenacious

Fantastic

Full of beauty

Full of color

Full of power

Full of speed

Full of love

The fire dances and is with me.

The fire is alive

Full of heart

Full of grace

Full of strength

The fire, oh the fire.

Be aware of your fire; be present in its desire.

The power of the flame is yours.

You can gently move it; you can choose to fuel it.

You can reach it, you can share it, you can enjoy it, you can let it light the way.

You can look into it with passion; you can gently breathe life into it with compassion.

You can turn it, and see it, feel it and be it; you can change it, protect it, admire it and be aware of it.

The flames are yours, the fire is inside, the light is always there, the power and strength are none to compare.

Sunshine

LOVE EVERY MOMENT

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

I love you for every moment and experience you have ever had, it created this moment I would have never had.

Love every moment and experience you have, leave judgement and delusion it brings about the confusion.

Kerri Elizabeth

When you are love, love is you and love is with you and love comes for you, there is no escaping that love is around you, for you and all about you.

Cheek to cheek and heart to heart, the gravity of the experience will seduce the heart,  mind and soul take on the challenge, will you fight it or breathe it, love it or leave it, share it or hide it, be with it and see it?

There’s  no time in between to ever fear the epic nature is made very clear.

Friends along the way change life in a glance, the inner glow shined far in advance.

Intense moments of growth, inner lights flashing like flood lights protecting and showing the way saying,'” I’m in front of you, touch me, let me be a part of your every day.”

There were no detours off this course, every moment was exactly where we were supposed to be, no force.

The sky shows stars like never before, never denying its perfect place, that star was pure and simply put in that time and space.

There were 4 wheels and a light, spokes and power, what moved those things were the inner desire.

A labyrinth with bare feet and letting go in the sun and feeling the heat.

 Following each step with a turn of the head, change is occurring inside with not a word said, with every step you’re moving ahead.

 This was just the starting of what was soon to become, intense and trusting times leading to more letting go and having fun.

The moments never stopped, not for a second, hills and rivers and sand and flowers, the air the energy the riding for miles.

 The heart is pumping; lungs are breathing, abs so tight from laughing and feeling.

The key in letting go and allowing and accepting what is now is exactly what is supposed to be happening.

The spirit of nature and all of its glory shot deep inside with sudden and intense passionate fury.

The heart races with anticipation, the body gives in and the mind knows, preparation from this life, it finally shows.

Every part of your life is a clear path, every moment and experience happened just for you, love it at last.

Don’t miss it, don’t deny it, let go and invite it, be part of it, feel it, desire it and grab hold of it.

When open is where you have no doors and happiness is yours, vision and precision become a decision.

Your walk will change, your mind rearranged, all you know and all you learned come together at this turn.

Fear is not there, all falls in place, every moment of life was there to embrace, and it was set as a gift every second of time, every experience and moment lead you to this depth you were meant to find.

Mother’s Love

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A mother’s love is forever.

A mother is an indescribable gift.

Being a mother is where life turns into joy, love, happiness, excitement and so many other amazing feelings I believe there is no language for, it’s felt through the heart.

Being a mother has been the most amazing journey of my life.

I dreamed as a little girl to be a mom one day, it was my number one dream and a dream it was.

I wanted 4 children and that is exactly what I have, they are all a part of me everywhere they go and they show me every day what wonderful hearts and souls they unfold.

I can see there smiles no matter how far away I am.

I can see there animated characters living life as if life was freedom and I found out it is.

Oh to be a child, they have taught me so much.

They taught me to stop and see things no one else could see.

They taught me to let go when everyone else was taking hold.

They taught me to be so strong, when times were tough there was no way I would be anything but POWERFUL and PROTECTIVE of all of us.

They loved me when I made mistakes, they followed me to every escape.

It seemed I never ate a meal without tiny hands trying to steal.

They laughed until they cried all the time, they danced and sang along to every song.

These kids showed me how to be still, how to listen and how to chill.

They taught me to love and to let love in, they showed me no matter what our love together ALWAYS WINS.

We traveled to the biggest puddles, the rivers, the lakes and got into trouble without any mistakes.

We were always spontaneous, on the go, we never stopped living and no one ever said, “ I’m bored!”

I ended up in classes watching every move, I was protective and fierce and they learned to MOVE.

They knew when they were in trouble and they knew what to do and it when it came to rebellion, they shared that with me too.

I love my children more than words will ever describe, I love every moment even the ones I thought I would never survive.

They are the blessing I know GOD gave me to save me from my own selfish behaving.

I learned how to be the best I can through every second of this life they blessed me in.

Thank you to all my children and to my mother that loved me through every day of my life no matter what I dealt her in love and strife.

Thank you for all I am, you 4 children are my heart forever and again.

To my mom thank you for giving me the life I have in me, you taught me so much and I know it and can see it within you and me.

To my grandmother that taught me to shine, she never let go of loving me to the end of her time.

Also to Becky Bergstrom a woman that taught me so much about how to be a mother and how to love and laugh when life seemed chaotic and tough.  I miss your wise words and your smile and heart, you gave me so much to learn and grow and I think about you always along my journey’s road.

Collect Moments

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

Collect Moment Not Things

How often do you challenge yourself?

Challenge yourself to stand the duration of a sunrise and sunset.

Walk a mile farther.

Take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Run instead of a walk.

Ride a bike instead of a drive.

Eat raw foods instead of cooked foods.

Create a rainbow of colors in your food that are alive and bring you joy.

Clean out a room and leave only what you enjoy.

Be spontaneous now and then, go where you have never been.

Have you ever just stopped and listened to a river full of frogs, at midnight in a park?

Have you ever stood still by a pond looking and talking to two swans?

The deepest craziest most amazing energy is reached when you have the tenacity and tenacious spontaneous ability to say yes before you imagine why you would say no.

Say yes and then figure it out, say yes and figure out how.

 Never say no to an opportunity that will fulfill your deepest desires and dreams if you don’t know how take the time to learn now.

What story keeps you stuck, are you living and breathing with limitless belief?

Whatever you dream of for your life is clearly written and ready to thrive.

Have you set your own heart aside for the life of someone else that deserves to experience and feel what you may be covering for them inside?

Everyone has their perfect place, where you’re at is where you need to be, to get to the next place, you’ll see.

Feel what’s real!

Sunshine all the time!