Thank you for you! Beautiful heart take flight as a co-creating butterfly! Pollinate love through the creation of loving thoughts, words and actions, fly to the depth of your heart. Be you!
Love the unloved things, the strange wonders of nature, the butterflies, the weeds, the blowfish, the vulture, all strangeness that floats within us. Put love there. It's time to unconditionally love, to love all the unusual, magnificent wonders of life and you.
Go to the sacred place, your heart, where love, magic and imagination blooms, go there, go often, roam freely in your heart, in the aroma of love.
Allow the flutter of inspired love to become a current of air, lifting you upward to the wonder of you, that love will pollinate the flower growing in your heart and set you free.
Be a pollinator of love for self and all.
Jennifer R. Cook @catsinthebagdesignposts invites you to embrace love in your life and enjoy What Love Says series.
Today we thought about the women in the shelter and they kids felt it was a good idea to shower them with love i on Valentine’s Day #Love #women #shelter #loveall #westEnglewood (at West Englewood) https://www.instagram.com/p/CorEJINOkTi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
sometimes it's okay not to be okay. it's okay to not show anyone what you're going through while it's okay to show it too. it's okay to feel like you've hit the rock bottom and not rise up while it's also okay to give it all and rise up.
this song is just so perfect for when I feel down or whenever I feel the world has come crashing down one me.
Reflecting on how I got to where I'm at today, it only makes since that my heart is nonprofit. Let me explain.... Growing up I was a lost child with no parents in my life and no since of direction, I battled with mental health issues growing up. I'm sure my moms drug use while she was pregnant with me was to blame, my mom was in prison and when she was out she was on drugs , my dad simply just didn't care I never got a reason from him why he wasn't in my life so that's how I take it. let's be honest the odds of a successful life before I really figured life out was largely against me.
I continued the path that of the parents that broke me at a young age in and out of the system, drug use I had become a product of my environment. Their was a vision inside of me that told me I was better then the things I brought on myself I wanted help but I didn't know how to find it, I tried to read books to teach myself but I didn't know how to read. I bounced around from home to home and from school to school 17 I had my first child.
It was never my intention but I started doing to my kid what my parents did to me, I continued the cycle. I blamed a lot of things of my upbringing because i truly didn't know any better because I was never showed, I held that mentality for a long time until I got tired of repeating the cycle. My soul, my heart begin to get tired of the cycle that hurt other people and stopped me from being the best version of myself you know what they say old habits are hard to break, the toughest battle I have ever fought in my life is becoming who I should of had the opportunity to be when I was a kid.
As the Layers slowly pealed away so did the pain that made me who I was. I realized in order to evolve I had to stop blamming people from the past so I can have a brighter future. I got educated and started my first business when I was 22 years old, I started to learn so much about my self I wanted to change the narrative and the cycle it didn't happen over night which was the most discouraging feeling, the past always caught up to me it took me years to get away from it. When I was able to peak my head over the mountain I saw a place were I belong, a place that ever since I was a kid I always wanted to be but I just didn't know how to get their but as I'm about to go over this mountain I look back and I see people struggling like i did and at times still do. Even though I was at the top of the mountain I didn't go over it I stayed their and reached my hand back to help the next get to the other side I gave people jobs with no experiences I just wanted to see them feed their family, I litterally gave the clothes off my back to others that needed it, I stayed on people about being sober I've made many visits to clean and sober houses.
The thing about it is I never had clothes to give, I never had time to spare and sometimes it was my last dollar. I started a business but did most of the work for free because because I loved to make a difference..... I love to make a difference, I love to help people. when I figured that out I found the best version of myself I had finally figured out my calling. You don't need a profit to help, making a difference and changing a life is a feeling that can not be sold on a shelf, it can not be bought. that's when I figured out my love and my hard for others is nonprofit.