Arrive in this moment,
Letting everything settle.
Unhook your mind from what has been.
Let go of what may be.
Anchor your mind on your breath as you inhale and exhale.
Welcome to a hit of hope.
Do things ever not turn out as you planned or hoped?
Have you ever risked something,
Shown up with some courage and some grit,
Ready to make something happen?
And things either go sideways or they fizzle.
It's hard.
It's hard to put yourself out there again and again.
It's easier to crawl in.
To crawl into your shell,
Your armor.
The question's like,
What's the point?
Why try?
Inhale.
Exhale.
I just had one of those moments.
It was a moment where I showed up with some vulnerability,
With humility,
With a willingness to be open to see what might happen.
And the other person didn't show up in the same way.
And a part of me was hurt and wondering what was wrong with me.
Inhale.
Exhale.
At the same time,
It might be easy to blame the other person,
But I can see where they were coming from.
It was from their own space,
Their own needs,
Their own dreams.
And we can be in a moment like that and know we still have a choice.
We can feel beaten down.
We can give up and walk away.
We can also go in and get very clear about who we are.
And you know the one thing we don't have to question is that we are people who are worthy.
We are people who are enough.
No matter what the world says,
You are okay.
You are full of life and joy and weirdness and smartness and quirkiness.
And I know smartness isn't a word,
But this is one of the few times where I actually haven't written this meditation out.
I'm just sitting in my closet talking because I got hurt today.
And it stings.
And I'm not sure what I'll do next,
But I know what I needed to do was to sit with this and to realize that in the core of my being,
Just like in the core of your being,
We are all fierce and doing our best and showing up and shining and crying and flailing and flying.
So let's keep going.
Let's keep going and showing up with our amazing selves,
Our fierce selves,
The ones who don't know what the script is for what is coming next.
Inhale.
Exhale.
Live light.
Let's live light together,
Okay?
We'll get back out there.
We'll try again.
We'll see what happens next.
And if we fall,
We'll get back up.
But always,
We are going to know that in our center,
There is this amazing light shining no matter how dark it is.
Inhale.
Exhale.
Live light,
Y'all.
