Real is beautiful. Show Up and Breathe.

I love how conversations with wonderful friends inspire and evoke amazing feelings of truth and gratitude. I feel as though the most amazing blanket of peace is wrapped around me. My mind has never been so aware of how happy I am when I listen to truths and seek understanding. 

I've shared a lot as of late, here on my little spot to write and in conversation privately with good people, at how blown away I am regarding my strange ease into 'just being me.' Because I'll likely always reference my Jesus freak days somewhere, here's a memory that's strong in my mind right now. 

I recall preaching once, to a group of youth, about servitude, when it occurred to me that the most important step is being there. "Show up and breathe," I told them. 

Just breathe. 

Be present. 

Think as little as possible, and just 'be.'

Imagine. Here is this community and they seem to kinda like keeping me around. It isn't the first time. I'm trying to be humble here... when I know that I am mostly well loved in many circles. I hate talking about it honestly, but I pretty much feel it to be true, so there. I said it. 

And in other circles, I haven't been dishonest. I just haven't been the free running lion that I was meant to be. Thank the gods (even Jesus, I suppose) that I've found a place to run. (and oh, the ways that could be interpreted... rubs hands together...)

Will I ever speak of something other than community? And finding a place? Maybe. But for now, boy howdy am I ever happy. A measure of happy that seems euphoric and impossible to fake. 

I have been blessed and honoured with so many beautiful creatures who share pieces of themselves from the depths of their heart. I have witnessed more truth than I knew existed and as a result been all that much freer to just show up and breathe. 

Thank you. To you who have been honest. To you who have shown me your vulnerability. To you who have inspired me. To you who have listened as I vetted thoughts. To you who accepted me. To you who reads my thoughts and ramblings and to you who shares something additional and relevant. To you who chooses not to be afraid of a little lion. 

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