Bare

A snippet of what unfolds when life strips you down to your bare bones: the essential matters of the heart no longer slip through your fingers.

You stop pretending you are satiated with the pettiness of this world; the heedless squander of God's precious gift of time no longer excites you.

The sacred returns in the mundane. True hope and faith take their seat in your heart.

Running, numbing, and wasting become things of the past. You belong to life and unapologetically give yourself to it.

Unarmored, you march at your own pace through territories unknown or uncertain, choosing to dance your dance - unfrozen.

Continually surrendering to life's messy flow, you live without sacrificing your depths nor compromising your soul, fine tuning your heart to the divine in all your ways.

Because every tiny speck of you and what you feel matters tremendously, you stop to remember your body, take back your place. Inhabit your temple. Sync the physical with the spiritual, body to mind.

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What you once neglected, abandoned, or desensitised - you bravely reclaim.

By asking the hard questions you make space for the hurt to heal inside you. You release the old.

Deconstruct. Unlearn. Rebuild. Renew.

All to find the words you couldn't speak and learn to retell our story. Not because you are chained to it but because your story is a loose part of who you've become.

And in that tender place where pain, joy, and humility coexist, you then find gentleness not only for yourself but for the world at large.

So the missing pieces are sown back together and you are brought back to tears, knowing that you are safe even when it burns. For when it burns, you are cleansed.

There is no such thing as badness. No curtain of shame to hide behind. Just ashes of hope to rise back up from.

Standing on your own two feet, you understand it's always been ok. The discomfort, the adversity, the breakdown - all of it was just life working in your favor, the divine orchestrating a brilliant unfolding into who you were meant to become and what you were capable of offering but refused to unleash.

A radical realignment. A stretching of the heart. A rite of passage. A hero's journey out of the forest. All so your life can become a a monument of painstaking sincerity. All so you can hold the totality of your experience in its wildness and full polarity. All so you can trust your gut, recognize your worth; stand in the beauty of your authentic, vulnerable self without shying away. All so you can be truly human and know what's possible and available to you. All so you can be even more than what you have endured or survived. All so you can finally merge into the heart of pure potentiality.