I looked here
and there
to escape the pain
looking to cope,
to soothe
my internal dilemma.
I felt
the blush of dawn
cradle me.
I fell
into a daydream.
All the hurts
of humanity
appeared
and laid themselves down
bowing to the sun
anointed with forgiveness
showered in hope
for the future.
My suffering
laid bare
in the early light
was purified
and I felt it no more.
-EKipp
Here is the Sparkler for the Day~ Lightning:
It was the way
she never strayed
from the lightning
as she walked
through shadows
amid the darkness
She saw
the real magic
was that
the lightening
came from
her hopes
that she could awaken
and shake off
the drunken cloak
of sleepy convention
of all the attempts
to keep her contained
dumbed down
numbed out
silent
unseen
She was a creature
that walked
with lightening
unpredictable
powerful
terrible
nourishing
wild
free
to
crack open
the sky
provoke
thunder
and
let loose
rains
and rainbows
everywhere
she went.
– EKipp
With gratitude to The Creator and My Bucket List Foundation for the image
Here is the Sparkler for the Day – Letting Go of Limitations:
“Let go of your concerns over what other people think. Let go of even what you think about yourself. Our beliefs are limitations that keep us confined and addicted to how we think things should be, to what we think reality should look like. Our fears are real, yet they live from this place of quarantine. We have decided what is possible and what is not. We have decided how the whole world will play itself out. This is how we create our reality. We have decided that the impossible is, for us, just that – impossible. Literally.
How can we create from such a restricted place? How can we heal from a place such as this? We have put out the vibration that says, “I can go this far, but no farther”. “I can do this, but never do that.” “I can heal from this, but not from that.” We do not know what the outcome of our healing will be, for we are not God, of course. Yet, when we clamp down on and cling to our beliefs in our limitations, aren’t we really telling God how it’s supposed to be? Aren’t we making a proclamation that our healing power can only go so far and no farther? If we decide that we are doomed, we have chosen our position and thereby doomed ourselves.
Belief – travesty of the mind … if we allow it. If we can just step for one moment beyond this imprisonment, we have ventured into a larger world – a world of infinite possibility. We have stepped into the impossible. Who knows what will happen? Who knows what healing will ensue?
We look to other people and what they accomplish as a measure of what is possible for us. Because we are so stuck in our own limitations, we automatically see the limitations of others. Such a place is completely inadequate for us to bloom into ourselves. How can the impossible ever transmute into the possible if we are coming from the captivity of such constrained thinking? Take matters into your own hands. Allow yourself to rise into yourself. Reach beyond the programming and touch the stars – for as surely that they are out there, they are within you just awaiting recognition. You are ultimately an infinite being, as are we all. Why is it so difficult to believe this? If we are to expand into our full potential, it is incumbent on us to expand then beyond the walls of our limitation into the infinite nature of who we truly are.
Trust. Believe you can heal. Reach beyond your beliefs into surrendering yourself beyond the powers of the mind. Surrender to your experience. Allow all of it and be its witness. Whatever your story was, clear the slate. Let the space of pure presence work its power on you for it works in a land that writes its own story in every moment. It writes the story of creation, It writes the story of the impossible becoming possible.”
Here is the Sparkler for the Day: Meeting Yourself.
When you turn and face yourself, you bring yourself to the brink.
No longer are you looking to others to validate your place in the world.
Any penchant for people pleasing has left.
You have only to please yourself.
You are on the brink of discovery.
Who are you?
Who are you becoming?
Rest in the peace that you can meet yourself here.
Find joy in the discovery.
You are the last undiscovered country and your greatest adventure.
With gratitude to The Creator and Rebecca Pearl for the image
Here is the Sparkler for the Day – Heart
Open heart, compassionate heart, loving heart, broken heart, forgiving heart, bless your heart, bare my heart, grateful heart, sad heart, joyous heart, heavy heart, change of heart, heart of gold, bleeding heart, heart of stone, have a heart, passionate heart, cold heart, get to the heart, be still my heart, faint heart, change of heart, full of heart, after my own heart, courageous heart…so many different moods and capacities live in the heart. It is always there for us, no matter how it is showing up. I see the heart as a teacher of patience and, well “heart”, rising to whatever occasion it is called to respond to. Today I give thanks to my heart and the lessons it holds.
With gratitude to The Creator and fineartamerica.com for the image
The Sparker of the Day today is on the truth of who we are. “We began as a mineral. We emerged into plant life and into the animal state, and then to being human. And always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we dimly recall being green again. That is how a young person turns toward a teacher, how a baby leans toward the breast, without knowing the secret of its desire, yet turning instinctively. So humankind is implied along an evolving course through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream. It will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.” ~ Rumi
Here is the Sparkler for the Day – Love Is a Verb.
Love is a verb – it requires action. We give love. We receive love.
Love is a noun – it is a both a bridge and a river. Love connects people together. Love is the flow of energy that is felt by all it touches.
Love – the State of Being – a place we know so well, we crave so deeply when absent, relish and delight in when we feel it, and find the root of joy when we know the depth of our heart beats to the only rhythm that matters – in the key of life. Get your love flow on.
#GetYourSparkOn #FeelTheRapture #FreedomToChange #kippinitreal
Love is a verb…
Here is today’s Sparkler for the Day – Borderlands.
Borderlands
I need sunlight and air to live.
Let me feel that border
where the wind meets my cheek.
Maybe you know what I’m talking about,
or maybe you don’t,
but you feel it,
as you have felt other borders –
like the gray between dark and light
and the growth from meek to might.
I need to feel myself on the earth
where my footfall touches clay,
for I am clay myself
a miracle amalgamation
of clay, blood and water
awakened in the spark of life
and God-smacked with love.
You are that, too.
Come join me
where the sunlight meet the air.
