Morning my beautiful Blossoms!
Last week was such a gentle and relaxing week full of taking time for myself, filling up my well, and taking it easy. Right now inspiration and beauty (and tons of love) is just spilling out of me.
Last week as I looked back through blog posts, some of them over a year old, I realized something that I never really acknowledged back then.
My story matters and so does yours.
All-in-all, believe it or not, I’m a pretty boring person in the day to day. I don’t travel, I don’t go out on retreats, I don’t go out often, and I live alone without the entertainment of children. I live in my own little self contained, homebody, world that consists of working from 10pm to 7am at Walmart, doing my spirit work when I get home in the morning, playing computer games with my bestie for an hour or two, and then sleeping. My routine doesn’t change very much. Even though I’m incredibly boring my words still matter and my voice still needs to be heard, and I am still wise and full of wisdom.
So are you!
Despite how “boring” you think you are don’t ever let that stop you from being a guide, from sharing the wisdom you’ve gleaned from the mundane. You have a story to tell, so tell it.
Today’s card comes from the Wild Wisdom of the Faery. The Storykeeper faery sits on her throne recording my story, recording yours, knowing that each journey holds an immense amount of power. She encourages you to be the main character in your own journey as you are meant to be. Step up, be strong, brave, and magical and know that you are the writer, the author, of your tale. You get to decide what you do and where you go next. You get to write your own happy ending… and the epilogue… and then the next book… and the one after that… You hold the quill, the pen, the keyboard at your finger tips. It’s all up to you.
How do you feel about telling your own story? If someone was writing a book with you in it do you think you’d be a main character or a supporting one? Why?
My story at the moment is also very routine. I wake up much earlier than I would like to (6 am) and from then I corral 3 children either school buses or (now that its summer) to various activities around the house (we are a one car family so we are stuck home all day). I take care of three pets all day too. I sneak in my Internet/blog/Facebook time off and on at this time. Then around noon it is blessed nap time for 2 of them and that's when I clean, exercise, catch up on DVR backlog, or (if I'm really lucky) nap. At about 4:30 the spouse comes home and we get about an hour together before I go to work at 6 and work until about 11 or 12. I don't usually get to bed until 1 or 2 am. :-( Weekends and days off are a different kind of craziness (family events or errand running nonstop). Spiritual work gets thrown in whenever it can. My life wasn't always this mundane but I gladly embrace it over the negative drama I've had in my past. I never mind telling my own story but I kind of feel like its not a story that too many people really care about hearing or relate to (even most other moms)! There are so many mommy blogs that have already thought of every possible creative way to tell this same story. Despite that I still feel like if my life were onscreen I'd be the main character (it would probably be a really artsy underground type film). I think if my life were cool enough to be a movie that Michelle Williams would be the one who would play me.
Things are rarely routine in my world… sometimes I am the center character and sometimes not. I am coming out in a friends e-book with a general non graphic telling of growing up and living with domestic violence. I hope one day to write that book of my own.. the victim to survivor to advocate, to learning to live and love again thriving <3