“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
a few weeks ago
i wrote about thin places and sacred spaces. i've been marking mine left and right, for these days of mine have been transparent-thin like glass. this year, so fresh and new, already feels like a wise old soul. i feel like i'm swimming in
secret messages and i love this. it scares me and it comforts.
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| a #secretmessage from one my soul loves. |
tomorrow i round a curve in my sojourn and enter territory both familiar and unknown. i can feel my legs strengthen as i rise, fearless and expectant, and maybe a little breathless?
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in the meantime, as i move through my day today and prepare for this unfolding in my life, i'd love to hear a story of what fearless means to you. what does it mean to be unafraid? to walk a sacred path without flinching ... or flinching, and walking anyway?
{{and a final whisper: if you think of it, i crave your thoughts or prayers. thank you. <3<3<3}}
xoxo.
you've got my thoughts and prayers xo what does fearless mean to me..it means feeling a Divine kiss that melts the wounded human fear away. It doesn't happen often for me. my fear often rushes in and makes itself quite comfortable on my shoulders and I let it because it's what i know. but... once in awhile, when something is "right" even when it's hard..a different feeling comes over me that is larger than me.. and outside of me and I feel age old courage straightening my back. I had two awesome grandmothers whose lives were extraordinarily difficult but they lived full woman lives. When I am desperately afraid, I draw on the strength they had to get through when most people would crumble. When I feel "woman" it makes me less fearful. There have been times I was completely "fearless". I mean completely. This was always when I was coming to the aid of someone who was hurting desperately. I'm starting to come to my own aid by remembering the times I was truly fearless for someone else. My choices this past week have changed or rather the way I look at those choices. When I draw on a power outside of myself and also within.. that ancient power of being "woman", things are clearer. I'm not there yet completely and don't know that I will ever be with so many human wounds and flaws but I'm trying. xoxo
ReplyDeletethank you for this, dear glynis. how wonderful to have the influence of your grandmothers and this legacy they've given you. i'm reading a book i think you'd like. i'm sure i'll write about it soon. thank you for your thoughts and prayers. {{hugs}}
DeleteMy thoughts and prayers have been with you as I have felt a shift in spirit here and have been wondering if there have been many moments in between posts that have been a struggle. I could just be reading my life into yours but it felt like that so Yes- thoughts and prayers.
ReplyDeleteI like how Glynis says when she came to the aid of other women she felt fearless- I do too...yet now she needs to come to her own aid..That is where I am at too. Fearless is complicated because there are so many things that seem to be done out of fear yet it may just be incapability or under developed skill or slight appropriate apprehension. I get confused by the word fear in general as I do believe it holds many people back from truly living but I am not sure how to define it. So thus fearlessness is also really tough for me to define. Is it different for everyone? I don't know.
As for walking a sacred path without being unafraid- I think I do. I think I have braved that fear several years ago. Perhaps I will have another journey in a few years back to a sacred path of apprehension and change but right now I am in the confident peace path. I know what I need to know to hear the sweet whispers of the Divine and I know that it is unexplainable to most and very different from standard beliefs. I am not afraid of that path or the journey itself but I am afraid of what others will do to me while on it...Hmmmm tough questions! Good questions but tough:)
thank you, my friend. the moments in between...not so much a struggle but just really deep and momentous and how to describe it all? i wrote about the sacred spaces and i'm still swimming in it and language is so inadequate to explain it. but i want to and i'm trying. what you said about defining fear is really interesting to me. if you ever write a post on that i'd love to hear your thoughts! i love your confident peace path! oh and i got your emails about your new site...i will visit and check it out asap...life has been happening at warp speed and i'm sorry i've not checked it sooner. thank you for your thoughts and prayers. <3
Deleteoh dearheart, this is precious. you always have my thoughts and prayers, especially now as i feel your voice changing and your heart opening. because that's vulnerability, and that's hard to do, i know. stand strong, precious sister.
ReplyDelete{{wrapping tender arms around, exhaling prayers of light}}
thank you for your always-prayers. <3 you are precious, you little mommy you. <3
Deleteyou are held close Rain...held close
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afraid.....unafraid....there are moments when I have experienced complete freedom from fear....I like those moments, but they are at this point, few and far between but I have definitely experienced them, and now that i have I want more.
Unafraid looks like complete surrender to me...surrendering to the moment, the emotion, the everything, and not letting it control or affect any movement or decision I make. So what I am saying is that the threat is still there, but I am not giving it energy to grow, it remains, it is, but I am not moved by it.
And then there are those times...most times...when the fear is still there, but I walk I walk through anyways because I Trust what is on the other side.
be not afraid my friend, but if you are know that there is freedom to be found in fear...welcome it, have it come sit with you, tell it everything is going to be alright. Fears fear is much greater than yours.....xo
love and light
mmm...love what you said here, especially about not letting fear control your movements or decisions. not giving it energy. and this? "fears fear is much greater than yours"...YES!!!
Deletethe past few days i've been through a tremendous journey...you will love it, when i can write about it. <3
I always look forward to your words rain..now even more : )
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rachel here. honesty: i'm not fearless. i'm actually kind of feeble right now, and hiding under my bed seems kind of inviting. just wrote a blog post, though...it's for you. don't have any other words tonight...but you know you're always in my thoughts and prayers. and i always love you.
ReplyDeletethis post of yours...exquisite. absolutely exquisite. and you know that sometimes my lack of words means not that i wasn't touched, but that i'm more than touched.
Deleteyou are dearly beloved. <3
whatever today means for you I do wish you peace. and hope. you have my friendship and my blind support. i hope you feel my hug and my love...
ReplyDeleteoh rebekah. these words...i've worn them on my heart ever since you wrote them. blind support...that humbles me and i hold close this trust and treasure. YOU are a treasure. xo.
DeleteOh, fearless chances for me from day to day. I'm smiling because I wrote about one such moment today, dancing in my sacred grove all by myself. :-) Being happy when others want me broken, showing love when I'm scared, putting my words out for others to see when they might trample or misunderstand them. I don't think I'm every fearless, but I'm not as fearful. :-) Wishing you delicious peace and much courage in this next step of yours.
ReplyDeletei want to be in your sacred grove dancing with you. <3 thank you for your kind words and beautiful wishes.
Deletei'm one of many i know who has been overwhelmed with fear. last year, i overcame a fear, gave my all, and at the end, i still ended up losing. but it was as though God was speaking to me in that moment, i begin to hear the words of one of my favorite songs, 'like today never happened...' and from that point on, whenever i failed, i would tell myself today never happened...i have to move on...i have to forget. i have to move on, fearlessly.
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{{{hugs}}} i know what you mean. thank you for stopping by!
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