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Inspired

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.

Soul inspired.

Heart required.

Captured by a feeling.

Separated by distance.

Hope carried me to a place.

Free will now determines this new space.

No matter what the outcome is did you follow your heart there?

Pulled in a direction I had to go.

An internal pull and connection I wanted to know.

Sunsets along the way.

Sunrises to start the day.

The mountains seemed as if they could talk, guiding me along the way.

Roads curving, mountains grabbing the roads as if they pushed and pulled them in the path they laid.

The miles of open land that most never see was just waiting to be appreciated by more than just me.

The moon on Montana was as if it was set there to stay, it felt as if I could touch it and climb on it to play.

The rivers seemed to bend and break for miles on end, leaving thoughts of how the snow so sweetly shared to extend.

My soul was touched by the beautiful space.

What would I learn from this new place?

I learned that I can take a chance and let go of fear.

I learned that God is always near.

I learned that no matter what you feel, you’re responsible for all that you decide to reveal.

I learned that no matter what you see, you’re responsible for how you choose to be.

I learned that no matter where you are in your life, experience and change is good advice.

I learned that you will meet people along your journey, they will impact you and move you, give you hope and approve of you.

I learned that no matter what is approved, the deepest emotion is how far you were moved.

The depth of the journey is different for us all; the most important part is where did it leave you so far?

What will you learn, did you grow, how will it impact your life as you go?

Will it guide you to a new starting place or will it simply be a journey to a better place?

How will you perceive the path given?

Live out loud for your best, don’t ever let anyone tell you less.

Believe in more, reach without limits, love without expectations and live with all your might and give with all that’s right.

Be still when you need to be still, heal when you need to heal, listen to the voice inside and be thankful to your guiding light.

Shining only the best in your heart, change lives as you go and live intertwined within the glow.

Miles of Moments

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Moments can last forever and moments can stretch for miles, be present in each moment and each moment will be present with you.

Kerri Elizabeth

A journey of the heart.

Miles of moments.

Thoughts creating movement.

Movements creating inspiration.

Inspiration creating a fierce passion for living your best life.

Living creates moments of knowing.

Knowing gives clarity.

Clarity gives calmness.

I found calmness in trusting my spirit.

I found encouragement in inspiration.

I found movement in the calling of my heart.

I found courage when I laid down fear.

I found freedom when I looked at life as my best friend.

I found out I was love when I grabbed a hold of what was above.

I found peace learning how to breathe.

I found sunshine is everywhere you go.

I found out not everyone knows.

I found that in every person there is a story.

I found that in every story there is a person.

I found out that no matter where I go, there I am so I better let go.

Take the time to breathe.

Take the time to believe.

Take the time to feel calmness.

Take time to be encouraged.

Take the time to let go.

Take the time to know.

Take the time to let your heart grow.

Take time for your mind.

Take time for your spirit.

Take the time to give greatness.

Take the time to receive greatness.

Take the time to reach the depth of your calling.

Sunshine comes from the inside out, shine it and let it out!

The Dance of Life

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Dance because you can!

Kerri Elizabeth

Turns out in life there are new steps being created every day.

You can do the waltz you can do the shuffle and you can move fast with the hustle.

When a song comes on that was meant for you, dance to it, you’ll be able to feel it’s for you.

Don’t shut down the sound, don’t run away, dance with it every day.

If the song is right you’ll be able to hear it, the sound is inside you’ll know it and feel it.

Don’t hurry it through, don’t miss the feeling it brings you and don’t lose the beat that’s made just for you.

Your feet will move, your emotions will be pulled, your heart will take hold and you will need to be bold.

Dance to the song, close your eyes, do your feet move with ease and or is it a compromise?

Are you dancing alone or with someone at home?

There is a dance in everything we do, a conversation has it too.

Watch the steps in your life, put them together, are they making a dance and challenging you to be better?

Be a part of the dance whatever song you choose, turn up the volume and determine the moves.

It takes time to create a dance, it takes time to create the moves but when you put it together it should flow and continue to improve.

Dance with your thoughts and dance with your heart, create a song inside that both dance together and not apart.

There is a dance floor in life and the music changes with the lights if you can’t feel the beat when the lights are low then the dance floor is simply a place you’ll never grow.

Keep dancing and growing and finding your beat, the music is playing feel it under your feet.

The lights are on you, what will you do when the song starts to play and everything inside you start to sway?

Sunshine on your dance, move to the beat, find the rhythm within you, it’s like a heartbeat.

Elephant’s

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 I meant what I said and I said what I meant, an elephant’s  faithful one-hundred percent.

Dr. Suess

Do you ever see an elephant in the room?

Do you feel his presence and let the anxiety bloom?

Do you feed him assumption until he continues to grow?

Sooner or later it has to go.

Take him on with kindness and tenacity.

Don’t let him grow past your capacity.

Be loving and kind and teach it where to go.

Lead it, believe it, and show it where you want to go.

Give it room to breathe, let it feast off a field of greatness.

Let it walk into completeness.

Give it the attention it deserves.

Let the presence of it be observed.

The elephant will continue to grow.

Let it go where it can get the attention and freedom to breathe and know.

Knowing where it can stand is a powerful lesson you have the power to understand.

An elephant starts as a baby just like you.

Teach it and love it and lead it.

You have all it takes to achieve it.

Let the Sunshine on the elephant, reveal its strength and vulnerability.

Both need attention and light to grow.

Sunshine for you on something you know.

Little reminders to light the way.

Have an absolutely beautiful day!

Component

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Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Wake up and start the day.

Decide the night before how you will plan the way.

Organize the space you’re in.

So that creative thinking can move again.

Honor what you planned.

Stay focused and make a stand.

If you need help don’t hesitate to ask.

It is important to complete the task.

Are you having a debate?

Are you stuck in past mistakes?

Are you looking for a plan to work out?

Are you procrastinating and checked out?

Do you wake up every day excited to have another chance?

You have been gifted that in advance.

Remember your life deserves more than a glance.

Today you can make a choice listen to your inner voice.

Today you can make a decision to put down the things that don’t serve your vision.

You’re worth every moment.

Are you missing that component?

By Design

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You design your behavior and your attitude.

Kerri Elizabeth

Are you defending yourself for someone who hurt you?

Are you carrying their baggage and giving it value?

Have you spent too much time thinking about someone else’s words?

Are you taking it to heart afterwards?

Has someone else’s voice become the one in your head?

Are you thinking about what they said and carrying it with you on your journey ahead?

Don’t spend precious time trying to change someone else’s unkind ways.

Don’t spend your life in someone else’s haze.

Are you questioning who you are because of someone else’s scars?

Are you holding on to what they need to do, or letting go so you can do what is meant for you?

Have you become someone else’s pain?

Have there actions and words become your campaign?

Will you let go and live who you’re meant to be?

Will you stand up, stomp your feet, and demand to live your right to be free?

Will you stop waiting for someone else’s apology and take the time to change your own terminology?

Will you leave the baggage not meant for you?

Will you live your life and design it too?

If a baggage of mean is left for you mark return to sender it has no value due.

Don’t wait for someone else to fix your place.

You’re in charge of how you design your space.

Be Your Someone

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It’s difficult to leave someone, it’s difficult to wait for someone, it’s difficult to forget someone but the strength comes in believing you are someone.

Kerri Elizabeth

A new destination

A new conversation

A new view

New people

A new moment

A new thought

A new day

A new way

Opportunity

Possibility

Live with open eyes; recognize the colors in different skies.

Live with grace every day and say, “I’m sorry” to yourself for getting in your way.

Be the friend you’re looking for.

Be the leader you want and more.

Be the Hero you dream will come.

Don’t wait for someone else to get it done.

Play an instrument you want to play.

Don’t let age or time be a defining factor in your way.

Be open to the possibilities you seek.

Don’t let your life be only a sneak peak.

Be the opportunity for your life to be, even what you can’t yet see.

It’s the things we think we can’t do that we put effort into doing instead of sitting and not improving.

Move with curiosity, live without animosity, create velocity!

The sunshine is never dim, perception comes from within!

Loving You

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I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.

Love all you do!

If you don’t love it, don’t do it.

Did you say easier said than done?

Do you love a fit mind and honor its design?

Do you love your heart for waking you up to a new start?

Do you love how you feel or do you appeal?

Love what you do and do what you love.

Do you honor and love who you are, have you put pressure on where you are so far?

Loving from where you are is the only way you can go far.

Take the time today to remember to say, everything I do is in love for you.

If loving you was all you had to do, life would look different to each of you.

The good news is, it’s true.

When loving you is the first thing you do.

Then love will always be how you deal with other things too.

Love is inside of each of you.

Love is not what you’re used to.

Love is an action.

Love takes compassion.

Loving you is loving others too.

Are you addicted to an attitude a place or substance that keeps you forever from true loving abundance?

An addiction is something that lies to you.

It’s a counterfeit feeling that you give into.

It can be anything you continue to always do and stay the same and ignore loving you.

Love is you!

Give into that, it’s true!

Let the sunshine wherever you go, loving you from head toe!

It’s Yours!

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You never know how strong you are until strong is the only choice you have.

Never take for granted the strength old and new.

What a gift that’s been given for you to pursue.

Strength is in every decision that you make.

It builds and it breaks and it heals our mistakes.

Never let anyone tell you it’s not true.

Strength is to be built on and it can’t be taken from you.

So if you think you lost it, think again.

You own it,stand up it’s yours to win.

We are always building strength in every decision that we make.

The right to stand firm is there to take.

Strength should be shared.

Strength can be declared.

When strength comes in numbers there is nothing compared.

Strength is not built on tearing someone down.

Strength is built from where you’re found.

Encourage and lift up one another, that’s where strength is truly uncovered.

No Doubt

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Where there is love there is no doubt.

It was a Friday night, I called him and he didn’t answer. I didn’t feel right this time.

I knew something wasn’t right.

I made it through the night and woke up early and called again. He didn’t answer right away, a text came through. It said,” I’m fine now, don’t worry”.

What do you mean don’t worry, I thought.

Finally an answer to my call and he said,”don’t worry mom I had 7 blood transfusions, I only had 10% of the blood I was supposed to have to be alive.”

“I’ll be fine though, don’t worry about coming to the hospital, I’ll be out before you get here.” He replied.

You know I was on my way while I said, “sure ok, I won’t worry, no problem.”

Gasping for air, I drove as fast as I could to the hospital.

There he was my heart and soul with a big smile and laughing ear to ear as if nothing was wrong.

That day set the pace for our next year in a half.

Children’s hospital was our home.

I walked away from the life I had, in that moment the only life that mattered was my sons.

His acute lymphoblastic leukemia diagnosis with a chromosome duplication called AMP21 was nothing less than life changing.

Diagnosis: 95% cancer.

Here we go my warrior child, time to rock and roll.

I won’t leave your side, I will never hide.

I will hear you and be with you; I will love you and protect you.

I will learn everything I need to and you’ll know who to lean to.

I’ll cry with you, laugh with you, I’ll sit by you, I’ll never ever leave you.

I’ll whoop you at every board game and I’ll make you work out.

I’ll write out daily goals, I’ll never have a doubt.

I’ll run a marathon daily if that’s what it’s all about.

I’ll run to the store for anything you want and more.

There are no other options but to get you through these doors.

We stayed up all night every single night.

We watched every series and movie, that’s right.

We decided together what he needed for the fight.

Our armor was on, our hearts said go, our mind was in action, we partnered up for this show.

I took notes from the doctors, I fought with the staff, my son will ONLY have time for the best that you have.

We never thought for a minute that there were any options but to win it.

My children took action from each of their places in the war for their brother, no time was wasted.

Every moment took love and patience from each other.

The journey was long and we needed one another.

We had family and friends; I could go on for days for the team that was in place to take on this race.

Invest in your life, reach out and give if you haven’t already learn to forgive.

Life throws us curves and we often aren’t ready, but the army of love will keep you steady.

Love with all your might, let your life ignite.

Be a flame not a flicker.

Live your passion.

Love with action.

Let the sunshine on every interaction.