In Service of Belonging

My life is tuned to serve you and to express myself. All this to say: it is tuned to express God. Those who know God, know that God is love.

Love is my language. It is true? I don't know. But this is my quest to be fluent in the language of love, transcending fluency until it is my native tongue. It is my native tongue and yours too, but somehow we've lost the way?

To practice love, I've begun with myself.

I love my home. I've curated it. It is my solace. My place to rest and create to serve you.

Do you have a hard time sleeping? 

Do you feel anxious?

Do you feel alone?

Do you feel unimportant?

Do you feel numb?

Perhaps you need more beauty in your life. I'd like to lend my photography, music, essays, podcast, and poems to ease this. 

I also intend to share hard-earned and grace-granted wisdom that I've encountered and point to practices and persons that will aid in you living your healthiest life. (Let's LYHL, together!)

I'm working to find the way. It's hard to create something from nothing - to paint your imagination into reality. My Creator did it and so my eyes blink, my diaphragm changed the pressure in my lungs to draw in the air, my lungs know how to extract the oxygen and offer the carbon dioxide, the plants absorb my CO2 and take the light of the sky and the water from the heavens to make the oxygen that I, my loving dogs, and my loving partner all require for life. 

These plants are so diverse, so beautiful, so magnificent, so plentiful, so scarce, so tiny, so gigantic.

I, too, am like the fleeting and delicate lilies of the field and the grand and resilient sequoias. Each enough. Each unique.

I'm so glad you're here. This is an offering for community - for you, for me, for us.

I hope you make your presence known. I hope you share your growths, your longings, your gifts. I hope you're better for being here. I think true community of belonging does that. It's a place to be with your longings.

My next big writing project will be the culmination of smaller writing offerings and is about becoming - becoming our unique selves. What an offering, what a gift when we bring ourselves unfiltered to the world! "Becoming Divergent" will be code that this is what I'm offering. I'd love for you to energize this trend (#becomingdivergent). 

I am rooting for you.

May you always see the blessing.

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• How expansive and integrated are your health practices?

• What are your longings?

• What are ways you know you're meant to deviate in order to honor the Divine gift inside you?

• What are ways you can nurture a community of belonging and becoming today? And this week?

Please use these as reflection, journal, and creative prompts. Maybe you'll get an image, a song, a poem, a relational or work insight, inspiration for community or... something else marvelous! You can share with the community in the comments or email me and I can share (anonymously or not, depending on your preference, and modes - e.g. audio or image - that you can't share in the comments). 

P.S. I am a beautyseeker. While checking on my tomatoes (actually, sadly, just one solitary tomato) this past week, I found not one, but two of these. Please enjoy the wildness and uniqueness of this creature, albeit in a low-resolution state. Note that images and art shared will be mine unless otherwise specified. If you happen to know what kind of creature this metamorphasizes in to, please share with our community.