Go Outside and Play

" Go outside and play!"
said God.
"I have given you Universes as fields to run free in!
And here - take this and wrap yourself in it -
It's called: LOVE
and It will always, always keep you warm.
And stars! The sun and the moon and the stars!
Look upon these often, for they will remind you of your own light!
And eyes... oh, gaze into the eyes of every Lover.
Gaze into the eyes of every other
for they have given you their universes
as fields to run free in.
There.
I have given you everything you need.
Now go, go, go outside
and
play!"
~ 2007 Em Claire

Who Am I

Who am I, and who do I choose to be, in relationship to the starving children of the world? Who am I, and who do I choose to be, in relationship to the oppressed and the downtrodden? Who am I, and who do I choose to be, in relationship to the disaffected and the disadvantaged, the disavowed and the disconnected, the dispossessed and the disenfranchised? Who am I and who do I choose to be?

That is the question. That is what life gives me an opportunity to decide. And likewise, who am I and who do I choose to be in relationship to my own incredibly good fortune, the gifts I have been given, the talents I have been allowed to nurture, the kindness I have been granted, the opportunities I have been offered, the intelligence I have been permitted to possess, the success I have been able to experience?

What do I want to make of this life, and of my Sacred Self in relationship to it? That is the question. That is what life gives me an opportunity to decide. And my life lived is my decision and my answer.

You are faced with the same opportunity. And this much i know. The universe is conspiring in your favour. It is placing before you in every moment of all of the right and perfect people, circumstances, and situations with which to answer life's only question: Who am I.

Have you decided yet?

As I'm sure you know, there are two ways to decide anything. One way is to decide it, and the other way is to not decide it. Yet always remember: Not to decide is to decide.

The important thing is not to allow yourself to be defined by default. If you think you are making no decision by making no decision, you are making a mistake. If you are not careful, the biggest decision you will ever make could be the decision you never made.

So let's be clear: all of life is a deciding. You are deciding... with every truth you embrace, with every thought you birth, with every emotion you express, with every experience you produce... you are deciding Who You Are and Who You Choose to Be.

Every act is an act of self-definition.

Be Good, Have a Heart, Be a GoodHeartz <3

~ When everything changes, change everything by Neale Donald Walsch pp. 266-7.

Rise Together

It's a beautiful time to be alive.

And the long walk home is peopled -

We, are everywhere.

Yet the struggle to surrender is where we walk alone.

So the next time you fall

look

to either side where you lie

and take the hand

of your dear Sister or Brother

whose own face is muddied.

We can rise together,

even if we fall alone -

for it's a beautiful time to be alive

even

on this long walk home.

~ Em Claire 2007