Lifeline: Mother's Concern

Little can be done when lacking motivation. What motivates you when you feel no real worth for yourself?

Mothers or mother figures can be the motivation we often need as we drag around this world unable to find the reason to do anything. When  my mother shows concern for my well-being and I know it is an added pressure in her life, it draws me to attention. From within the depths of despair and idiocy I start to emerge and life starts to click. Not necessarily out of care for myself but out of care for my mother who has sacrificed enough for all of her children.

So while at this moment I am starting to take better care for her sake, I hope to someday be taking care of myself for my sake.

Lifeline: Poetry

 

Release

 

Music doesn't hurt anymore

Words that speak truth

don't sting like before

All notes melodious

mix to bring life

a new story arises

from the depth

of  these hearts

they go on

on...on...

and

on

 

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You see there is power in the words we speak the words we write. How we express the unexpressable the desiring heart too shy to say much, but oh the power they carry can break you apart and build you up.

 

Augies

 

In the least likely place

behind the door of a small space

Brick walls all aorund

strangers abound 

the smell of coffee

the smell of tea

bring life

to the wandering artist 

Music and Words surround

these walls

life's poetic art lives

 

Beauty of life at a coffee shop...Redlands CA

Lifeline: Kindness

Simple acts of kindness can make a world of a difference in a person's life and in a whole community.

I was grading some of my students work just a minute ago and one student wrote this simple reminder: Don't forget to smile. Wearing my heart on my sleeve is completely applicable to me. In all my 27 years of life I have never been able to hide my emotions or my state of being. To be so kindly reminded to smile was unexpected and a true act of kindness.

I am surrounded by this kindness that often seemed illusive from my life a few months ago. At work I am met with smiles upon entering a room or seeing a student's face.

How silly it may seem to desire these acts in whatever form they may come but they bring so much joy to my heart because they show what I have always known. We are not meant to be alone.

One kind word is all I need and I know that one kind word is what I must also give.

Lifeline: Understanding the idea of "letting go"

Without a doubt "letting go" or the concept of "letting go"is one of lives anomalies. We want to let go of everything that stops us from advancing from moving forward in life but often are incapable of such a change. It is by far one of the hardest trials in life. Let go of all that was lived to the point of erasing all traces. Unfathomable to the common mind it is renouncing a whole lifetime a whole past.

Maybe it seems impossible to let go because we look at it as an absolute. "Let go" is often used to tell a person forget it all and stop letting the situation affect your life. Unfortunately it is not that easy and it is a phrase that needs deeper understanding. Letting go like forgiveness is not an instantaneous moment in time. On the contrary, it a subtle change of the mind and often of the heart. It is a daily transformation like conversion which does not happen upon the exact moment you claim Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

No, Letting Go is much more complex, but like everything in life it takes one step. If we do not find ourselves taking that first step to let go then we will never be free. Freedom is often what we seek when we are bound to the past and when we seek to let go.