Gift

Larders

Before I carry on, I just wanted to take time out to say thank you to all 5 (ha! - maybe a little ambitious but I can dream right?) of you who read my blog. It is very encouraging to hear from people who read and are able to relate. I know I have been very slack about posting but I would like to think that when I post a blog it comes from a place of honesty, to hopefully encourage and remind ourselves that we do not exist in solitude - no man can be an island. We need each other to survive. THANK YOU BEAUTIFUL LARDERS!

So, every year towards the end of the year I always receive a (without sound loopy) word about what the year ahead will bring. I was just sitting a minding my business and I kept hearing the word "gift". There is a bible verse that goes "your gift will make room for you" and I feel like I need to concentrate on cultivating my gifts so that they can make room for me and make me flourish. Larders, I implore you to do the same. I'm not one of those people who believe in luck, though I firmly believe in destiny and timing. I have always believed that your inner most dreams that you tell no one because they sound so ridiculous and will not seem to die (every now and again that dream you had when you were 18 keeps rearing its little pretty head) are your destiny. And if we are real, how many of us actually live our dreams?

I am happiest when I am doing certain things and which I have mentioned in previous posts. Those things I am very good at and they come naturally to me. Some of them I am just realising now. A looooooong time friend of mine, lets call her Thulani, kept telling me that I am a good writer. I knew that I am an average poet but as far as writing is concerned I thought "nigga be trippin'". As I write more and more for work and personally I realise that it would be epic to write a book in the veeeeeeery far future. Reading I love to do but to sit and write a whole book would be LEGENDARY even if only 2 people read it, it would still be "LEGEN------ihopeyou'renotlactoseintolerantbecausethenextwordis...DAIRY" (As Bunny from How I Met Your Mother would put it). I am DAMN good at make up (not to toot my own horn but really I am) and I will concentrate on starting something around that. These are just two of my gifts.

What are your gifts? What makes heart smile? What makes you giddy? Ponder on it and start something. Don't live in a world of "cant". Just because someone else couldn't doesn't mean you also can't. Pink said it best 'make the voices in your head like you instead' 'you gotta get up and try and try and try'. Don't let yourself die without having lived to the fullest. We do this together? Lets keep each other accountable.

COMING UP NEEEXT... WEIGHT GOALS! Its time to get back into it. We start something FOR HEALTH AND EXERCISING OUR GIFTS.

Love yourself because wherever you go, there you are

xo
ML