The vision
Sept 1, 2017
"My intent this year was to take better care of myself and stand up for myself instead of protecting myself. To face those fears that I have been hiding behind and holding me back and rise up and have a voice. Let go of comfort and security and put myself out there and live and see where my journey takes me. Life is short...live for the things that matter and let go of all the rest. I'm inspired every day by the courage of those around me, and I hope at the least I can pay it forward. Everything I have done, achieved, and overcome in my life I have done outside of society's rules, expectations, labels and demands with the intent to be able to serve others and in something greater."
So I took that leap of faith into nothing and I'm leaving everything I know and everything I know of how to survive to create something that makes sense to me for others. The vision is to create a self-sustaining community for women and to stop working against each other and to stop fighting with each other, and instead start working together as an organization, a community and maybe one day as a society to lift each other up and empower one other. To stop looking at all the boundaries, rules and differences that separate us and come together in our strengths and knowledge to help sustain each other.
The vision is to create something built on the foundation of equality, unity, hope, and love and not money, politics, status and power. I hope to take the best of everything I have learned from my own life, from my mentors, colleagues, and from the women I have worked with to create something for others, as well as a platform to start speaking change. I believe we are all capable of something so much more and it's time we all start living up to our potential.
All the things we are taught to pursue in this world that give us strength and power are meaningless and don't truly sustain us and I'm letting all that go with faith and trust in all of God's promises to provide those things and pursue something that means so much more that will bring nothing back to me. I'm letting go of all of my plans and just trusting in doing what I feel is right despite being told it's impossible.
With all the hate and tragedies I see across the world right now, I believe there is no better time than now to start spreading and creating a message of love, peace and unity. Is it naive, maybe, will there be challenges - absolutely, but nothing will ever change if we do nothing.
The silence of truth is deafening
As I watch ignorance continue to prevail
The weight of the weak grows heavier and heavier
As courage and honour flee from our hearts
If we cannot stand as the wall of justice
Raising arms to say this is enough
If we cannot step outside our own shelter
To give shelter to those in harms way
Then how can you say you’re with life
The very essence of existence is love
The breath of passion and selflessness it’s fuel
Where along this road have we lost our heart
Our integrity and will to take a stand
To speak truth to give hope or heed warning
Falls upon deafened ears and hardened hearts
But we cannot silence ourselves or the message given
It’s not just our life at stake
We are more than the reflection staring blankly back at us
We are the depths of our soul and one with the one true love
We are the very heartbeat of creation
We are not gods of power but one with the God of all creation
If we dare once again to tear down the walls of deception
With courage to see past our own darkness
Open our hearts to a love that binds us all
And rise up as the perfect spirit we are
We are one with creation, not above or below
Not separate or without
To bring healing and freedom to all that we’ve destroyed
First we must open ourselves up to the truth
Without fear of what’s on the other side
Or panic as victims to reality without faith and vision of our destiny
Instead surrender control to that which is always in control
And witness the love that make sense of it all
And have faith with humility that not one of us is perfect
But each deserving to stand in grace
All of creation is imperfectly created in love
And out of this love we will once again stand perfectly as one
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one - John 17:22
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