Dismiss what insults your very soul,
and your flesh shall become a great poem.
:: Walt Whitman
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I am done with questions in my personal life.
Maybe? {added to the end of a statement to dismiss myself just in case the listener doesn’t agree.}
Can I? {this type of permission seeking keeps me infantile.}
Should I? {i ask this to make sure others will like my choice, aka: like me.}
Yes or No? {i know what i think, i ask to make sure they will like it before i commit to my truth externally.}
Do you like this? {i only ask if i like it. so just stop already.}
Will you like me? {never asked directly, so never can be directly answered.}
Am I enough? {no matter the answer, I never feel like I’m enough.}
And the truth is, I am enough.
I will follow my intuition, which is never a question. I will speak myself, and stop spending energy gaining approval. I am done with right and wrong. It has consumed me for 31 years, I’ve been subject to its domineering demands that I never grow-up, or change, or become a fully-alive, self-contained she.
*pic inspired by this photo
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linking up with emily for imperfect prose
my hero-sister.
you don’t need a cape or a syndication of television. you have this, and you have words in sharpie on your chest.
bless you.
Your gift-of-words always shines through and lights me from the inside. xo
Wohoo! darlin’ you are MORE than enough. {ps – i love that within 24 hours we both posted with this as our last lines.} love you! xoxo
we women are a roarin’ I love that we are howling to the same moon and claiming our enough-ness. heading over to read your words … <3
oh, friend.
these words, your holy anthem, and this image of you…
i think this is my favorite image ever of you. i am saving it. you have risen, and you stand, brave and fierce and beautiful, royal, regal. i’m a little bit in love.
your words flow and trip over rocks in the sunlight – a beautiful gift, thank you. <3
wow
wow
wow
love and light
<3
Freedom to be.
Freedom to embrace life in the flavor that only you can.
<3
embrace as only I can … thank you for this, Amy. xo
Amen!
I will follow my intuition, which is never a question. …..
I’m going to join you. thank you.
as you link your arm in mine… thank you. <3
Cheering you on – it’s so hard to be spontaneous and just say what we’re thinking. The questions are endlessly tiring…
Hoping this is a new path for you.
(linking via Imperfect Prose)
Thank you, Tanya.
I am believing it is.
xo
nice…i like the strength in your words…and my wish for you is that you do it…it def takes dilligence…
yes, diligence, and yes, to doing it. I’ve been wrestling for the last day with both of these.
As evidenced through your words here, Janae Charlotte, you are enough. You are becoming the person you need to be separate from what others think. This is a huge accomplishment and, even if it is not completely settled in your soul, I can tell you are on your way! Great thoughts that I know many need to grapple with as well!
I appreciate this, “even if it is not completely settled in your soul, I can tell you are on your way!” Thank you.
what a beautiful picture of you, dear janae! and i love that: :i am enough. or rather, he is enough. always and forever, amen.
“always and forever” resting inside of that phrase, it is so beautiful and reassuring. xo
Good for you, Sister. Love on yourself.
Thanks, Brandee I love your joy and straight-forward. xo
janae, i’ve been secretly reading your words for a while, and it is time to come out of the woodwork, so to speak, because i, too, am enough (thru HIM), and we are enough (tho that’s sounding a little like U2 right now), and i ask all those questions of myself all the time and come up short sometimes on answers. <3
so wonderful to meet you, Misty.
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thanks for saying you are enough, too.
there is power in numbers, even if we sound a little like U2, its true.
xo
yes, to stop trying to gain someone’s approval because He already gives it to me…He is enough, and in Him, I am enough… standing strong with you as we journey…blessings
thanks, Dolly.
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Your post reminds me of one that I read that said something about ‘at least’…and how its a terrible thing to try to say to someone else when you are comforting them. I can’t remember what the context was, but it definitely struck me.
I can totally relate with the questions you have put forth to be struck down in your own life. You are so aware of the aspects of yourself that have kept you bound from freedom and its such a journey to see you moving forward in fighting them and seeking true freedom! keep up the great work my dear.
“at least” is not the best way to comfort – so true. thanks for your encouragement. may you seek and find, as well. xo