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Seeds of Hope

As the world around me awakens from the deep frozen slumber of winter gray, I watch as the world around me is nudged back to life with each delicate brush stroke painted by Mother Nature upon this canvas of life.

I see that I too, have also begun to awaken in a spectacular display of self as the guiding force of the universe continues to gently caress the seeds of hope I planted, as they continually blossom into the life I live today.

It was this time last year that the beliefs I held about life in all it’s glory began to unravel within me, the threads of my sanity twisting and turning in the constant winds of change.

In the midst of this inner turmoil, I began to question myself, my life and everything I held to be true.

The life I worked so hard to build crumbled and fell apart and I was offered the ultimate opportunity that many never embrace within the contrasts of their own lives….

A chance to redefine my life.
A chance to recreate my life.

A chance to discover who I was at the core of my being.

I am so grateful for the way that life unfolded before me and more so that I jumped into the seemingly chaotic pit of despair, to finally and once and for all find relief from the one constant in this life that has never allowed me to feel at ease.

The constant that never felt pretty enough.
The constant that never felt smart enough.
The constant that secretly despised life.
The constant that felt abandoned.
The constant that felt unloved.
The constant that felt alone.
The constant that had tried to absolutely destroy herself time and time again.

The constant that was me..and within me, I found me.

The good.
The bad.
The indifferent.

It was when I gave myself permission, for a moment in time to let go of all these observations, labels, ideas and beliefs that I had dragged with me, did I realize that the stories they carried with them had only served to keep me trapped in a mold of incompletion that was nothing of who I was, am or meant to be.

I found freedom from me.

The process of a miracle I initiated within my own life led me out of the prison of self I had been trapped within for so long. I allowed myself to risk it all to discover once and for all if life was anything more then the struggle, pain and sacrifice I believed it to be.

The uncertainty that disguised itself as fear at the time was not as powerful as my determination to venture forth upon the path of cosmic stepping stones before me. I discovered that it was me and only me that had the power to be more that I had allowed myself to be.

I took responsibility for me.

This began as a thirty day experiment in which I challenged myself on every level possible to discover if anything was possible…and that tiny spark of hope became the very seeds of life that would free me from the limitations I had lived within for so long.

It’s a few months shy of a year since this all began and I can only say that from where stand in the present time…my life today is nothing short of miraculous. Those tiny seeds of hope I planted have sprouted from within the core of my being and my life is the living, breathing manifestation those seeds….

Dream.
Laugh.
Love.

Believe.

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Spiritual Muscle

I forget that in the moment my little fears and petty frustrations are just my spiritual muscles working out…

Flexing.

I have lived most of my life running back and forth between two points for something, anything to take away my inner discontent. My world reduced to the situations and events experienced between those points.

An illusion I painted…one I’ve clung to..one that has kept me trapped.

Before anything can expand…first it must contract.

I have been very caught up in fear and uncertainty…confusing one with the other, although they don’t even by definition mean the same thing.

Fear causes my world to contract.
Uncertainty forces it to expand.

Each and every time I go through my “moments” of inner turmoil I have come to realize it’s part of my spiritual workout.

Fear is the treadmill of the past I run upon.
Sadness the heavy dumbells I lift again and again.
Doubt the strain in my ab muscles working through the pain.

Anger the burning desire to become spiritually fit…the fire from within that allows me to shed the years of emotional “weight” I have carried disgused as my beliefs for way too many years.

Uncertainty…..knowing that the possibilities for who I want to be are as endless as the deep dark of the midnight sky.

No pain…No gain.

My world is expanding before me as I flex my newly formed muscles.

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Planting fields of my life

My sister has this amazing piece of property filled with a rainbow array of flowers randomly scattered throughout her front yard. She has two small children, a schedule filled with play dates, a job and no time to do much of anything else.

But with a garden of any type…it must be tended.

Outside and alone in the quiet of the afternoon I chopped away at the dense poison ivy that snaked through the undergrowth and spiraled up the various trees. Pulled out the multitude of weeds that had grown so high that they were begining to topple under their own weight. From beneath the bushes I raked at the dried lifeless leaves trapped in the tangle of it all.

A few garbage bags later, a lot of sweat and dirt I had cleared away a small section. Taking off the gloves I wore, I began digging my hands into the dark, moist soil feeling my way for the roots that burrowed deep into the dirt. I had to remove what was growing below or the weeds… they would come back.

I needed to feel what I was trying to remove.

I needed to feel the resistance to know the proper way to pull them up.

I needed to feel the disgust in the discovery of the many insects that revealed themselves and the relief as they skittered away and burrowed back down into the dark soil.

After a few hours I had pulled out many of the roots that grew down into the earth but not all of them. Some were so thick and embedded, that only a little bit at a time could be removed. And others hid beneath the soil would not be found until they started to grow.

When I finished for the day I sat on the front stoop and looked at the area from afar. The flowers that had been lost in the overgrowth now stood smiling up at the lazy afternoon sun. With the weeds gone, there was room to plant new seeds and bulbs for the following season . It was a brand canvas for Mother nature to paint her pictures of beauty on.

It was a new planting field for life.

Before I walked out of my job several months ago…my life was very much like my sisters front yard. An overgrown tangle of poison infecting every aspect of my being, destroying anything I saw as beautiful

In the garden of my life…the weeds grew.

I was disappointed at the life I was living and I allowed my anger to root itself firmly in the fertile soil of my being. The anger grew quickly with the blame I placed on others for the conditions of my life at the time.

I was disgusted with myself but held everyone else accountable. One person in particular, an easy target for my misplaced anger…

My boss.

My anger at the time had already began to sprout as the resentments I felt towards him.

The blame.

The hate.

The sacrifice.

The struggle.

The absolute disappointment of the world at large, package neatly in the form of one person. Everything that was wrong in my life at that time somehow and in someway all led back to him…or so I told myself.

It took a little while before I became willing to really take a look at the situation to discover it was nothing that I thought it was. In this process I have learned that situations and circumstances always look different the moment I make the choice to be…

Responsible for me.

I had known where I stood at the job for some time; I just wouldn’t accept it. My boss had become the stone of my life I was trying to squeeze blood from. I allowed the anger I felt at the unfairness of it all distort the situation into something it wasn’t…

I allowed my garden to grow out of control.

I no longer saw the person who made me laugh.

The person who would ask if I was okay.

The person that would call to say they were worried about me.

The person who would give me a hug when I desperately needed one.

Yesterday I receive a call and an e-mail from my old boss inquiring how I was doing . I haven’t heard a peep from this man since I walked out of my job over 3 months ago. The first thing that went through my mind was,

” What the f*ck does he want”?

Before I left the job, he and I had a huge blow out and we haven’t spoken since. At that point in time he was another piece in the picture puzzle of disappointment that was my world. For a while I held onto the resentment I felt towards him unable to release myself from it’s deceptive grip.

Through this process I have learned the importance of choosing what it is I would like to have grow in the garden of my life…I have no room for anger or the resentments that beg to grow.

It’s always there, waiting in the deep dark soil for it’s opportunity to spread.

I choose to e-mail him back and to be honest about where I was at…although I must admit a part of me wanted to dig up old past hurts and have them grow in the present. But I just can’t live like that anymore. I cannot afford the time or energy feeding aspects of myself that will destroy the beauty I want my life to consist of.

I am responsible for my world.

My actions.

My behaviors.

My reactions and responses.

I no longer choose these aspects that grown into a garden of resentments.

My pain.

My disappointments.

My hurts.

These seeds have their roots in my garden. I do not have the right to harvest them in anyone else’s. I do not have the right to try and infect others with their poisons.

At times it’s difficult, there are moments I still want to blame others to have them feel my misplaced pain…but I know the old familiar lies.

They leave no room for anything new.

They leave no room for the beauty of what can grow.

When I checked my e-mails yesterday there was another message from him

…in it he said how proud he was of me.

The beautiful blossoms of forgiveness, compassion, hope, peace and love; for today these are the only seeds I choose to plant in the garden of my life.

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Undone

Writing has been the one constant in my life for as long as I can remember. No matter what I always had a way to sort through the confusion of my mind with the map of freedom my words provided me with.

But recently that has stopped, I haven’t been writing, I haven’t allowed myself to sort through the thoughts. I haven’t taken the time to navigate the moment and have allowed myself to wander into the wonder and awe of all the amazing events that have transpired throughout the past several months and now…

I feel stuck.

Emotionally.
Mentally.
Spiritually.

I keep questioning myself if this life I am living now…Is this what I really want?

Maybe this is all part of the growing pains of a new relationship.
Maybe the way I am feeling is natural.
But maybe it’s more then that.

I look at the the wonderful home I am living in with my new love, the garden I am creating, the life I thought I wanted so badly and yet something just doesn’t feel right. Something keeps nagging at me, something inside is trying to get me to notice what I am terrified to admit.

That maybe this isn’t where I want to be at all.

I am questioning everything and cannot seem to find an answer to soothe the inner turmoil that has been threatening to bubble over and out of me in a cascade of tears. I feel so powerless in the grips of my emotions at the moment. I don’t know what to do, what to say or even how I really feel. The one thing I know for certain is ….

I want to run.

I don’t want to feel the way I am feeling.
I don’t want to admit I may have been wrong.
I don’t want to admit that I may have gotten in over my head.
I don’t want to participate in my life.

I know that through this process of life when inner resistance starts to pull me in fifty different directions all at once, I’m typically avoiding something.

That something is me.

After all the growth.
After all the accomplishments.
After all the struggles.
After all the awareness.

After it all, I always in someway, shape or form discover that I am still afraid to be me fully and completely. I should know by now that any inner contentment is only as short lived as my constant desire for personal growth. After it all, I know that growth stems from these very seeds of fear and uncertainty and it sprouts from the million and one questions that each and every experience brings forth.

I know all this yet, I still want to run, thinking that my freedom is something that can be found somewhere far from here and far away from me. In the past I have found so many different ways avoid myself and I do my very best not to play into those old ideas. But the tendencies will always lay dormant within me waiting for the moment to spring forth from my consciousness to entice me with their lies of another life, another me, another chance…… if I just run.

But I won’t.
I can’t.

I have run for much of my life in the constant search for myself that I know that it only exists in this moment.

Right here.
Right now.

In the midst of the inner resistance that is pulling me apart at the seams, old ideas and belies are in the process of coming undone and in the midst of it all….

So am I.

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Unravel

Life has a way of inspiring me to embrace the absolute wonder and perfection that is etched within the framework of this existence. Through everything I have experienced thus far and all that I continue to experience I find that there is a greater rhyme and reason to all that occurs.

It was about this time last year when the pieces of my life I had worked so hard to put together began to crumble all around me. The job I had worked at since getting clean, I would soon walk away from. The apartment I loved so dearly was beginning to fall behind on rent, the car insurance had just lapsed, the bills were coming in faster then my ability to pay them.

The threads of beliefs that held my world together were beginning to unravel at the seams of my existence.

I felt so powerless in all that was occurring at the time. I didn’t understand why everything wasn’t working out the way I though it should, did not have the capacity to see past the outer frustrations that painted the picture of my life at that time. I couldn’t see that life was guiding me and directing me towards a path I had avoided for most of my adult life.

The path that would lead me to me.

For this moment in time, I have the inner knowing and capacity to see that all that occurred led me to where I am today. I had to experience the frustration, I had to fall apart, I had to let it all go. I had to let the outer conditions of my life fall away to allow me to see what lay beneath it all, to discover the path that would lead me closer to the life I choose to live instead of wandering in the circles of lies, beliefs and half truths that had led me nowhere time and time again.

I had to embrace the uncertainty of the unknown to walk the path that would lead me closer to who I really am.

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I tried for many years to stop using on my own, but in the end any type of abstinence was short lived and I always returned to my so called "solution" in regards to dealing with life which by the way was ....drugs.

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It wasn't until I submitted myself into a drug rehabilitation center did I come to realize and understand that addiction, in and of itself is a disease. I didn't choose the life of addiction because I was bored, I discovered through the information available within the treatment facility that I suffered from a disease of body mind and spirit. I came to understand that help was available if I was willing to embrace a new way to live outside the realm of active addition.

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Another Look

Life in all it’s brilliance, vibrancy, complexities, minor setbacks, achievements and so called failures has a way of always nudging me forward to discover the truth about who I choose to be at any given moment in time.

Today I stand securely upon this newly built foundation with the flexibility of understanding that beneath my current perceptions of what I believe, lies the truth that what I “think” I know in any given moment is always subject to revision.

I can only say…”Thank God for that.”

After my solid, unwavering declaration I made in which I swore I would never get a J.O.B. again. I had to take off that very heavy and burdensome mask of pride and look for a job. I sent out a few resumes, went on a few job interviews and stopped in some random quick cash, no bullshit places earlier in the week….the whole process made me sick.

Frustration danced with my experiences of the past twirling, twisting, dipping, diving and turning my stomach into knots. Each step, leading me closer and closer to the dark, depths of depression.

I felt like a failure.
I felt like I was selling myself short.
I felt as though yet AGAIN I was settling for less.
I felt the lies of the past manifesting in the present.
I couldn’t see anything else…

Some situations get me more then others…the whole idea of working, the old concepts and beliefs that still linger. All still reside within me waiting for the perfect meeting of opportunity and circumstances to grab hold of me and ultimately drag me through the muck and misery of what only has been known.

I know better then this…

But what I know and what I do with what I know are opposite sides in the spectrum of my life. My past is the flash of the white, hot memories that desperately try to manifest the pain, confusion and discontent in the here and now. My future black upon the canvas of uncertainty, no specific ideas or desires reveal the brush strokes of possibilities that exist within this unpainted rainbow of life.

It took a few days before I understood what I was willingly submitting myself to and made the decision to take another look at the wave of misery I was allowing myself to ride upon.

I forget…I’m a pro at forgetting…and so there are moments I forget that I have a choice.

The choice to be free or to continue to voluntarily stay imprisoned in my limited beliefs is ALL on me. My freedom has nothing to do with any of the outside circumstances or situations that occur. In the process of redefining who I choose to be today I often get lost in the confusion of who I used to be.

I allow the outside to dictate the inside.

Moments come about, feelings bubble to the surface, old beliefs wrestle with the new in an attempt to subdue my ever increasing awareness and have me submit to the idea that life is nothing more then what I have known.

Forgetting my own hopes and dreams…..frustration.
Selling myself short for a lousy paycheck…..disappointment.
Trading my time, my life and myself for a job I despise….hopelessness.

I have reference points that allow me the opportunity to point out the inconsistencies of my own beliefs. Some not related to the given situation, but still one’s in which my conviction of the truth was so concrete I felt I would never be able to escape the house that I had built the foundation of my life upon.

I never believed I would ever be more then a dope sick, strung out junkie…
I never believed I was worth more then my actions…
I never believed I could get off of welfare…
I never believed I could find purpose and meaning for my life…

I have surpassed every single one of these limits I had created for my life…some aspects still linger to haunt me and I know I will discover new ones that have kept themselves hidden. But the power they once had can no longer keep me from moving forward. My life is an ongoing process of redefining every aspect of the ideas and beliefs I hold.

So again, I step willingly into a situation thinking one way but feeling another and know everything is an opportunity for me to discover more, learn more…

….become more

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If there is one thing I know to be true about myself is that no matter what I never give up. I have made my share of mistakes, poor choices and bad decisions…but still I keep moving forward. In the midst of any of these challenges I propel myself into, I always discover a great deal about myself, the way I think, the things I believe.

Some things amaze me and other things scare the hell out of me.

Mistakes, failures, frustrations, wrong turns as well as the AGAIN'S are all little pearls of wisdom I string upon the this necklace of my life. What I have come to realize is that these “roadblocks” as I have tended to perceive them are the very aspects of myself that always offer me the exact thing I want.

The opportunity to redefine myself…the fuel that motivates me to change my life for the better.

I always thought that someday my life would begin…

Someday, some event, circumstance or situation would occur and the sky would open and happiness would pour down upon me.

Life is not like that.
My life is not like that.
Never has been and I seriously doubt it ever will.
Life is meant to be lived..there are no defining events only moments that define....

I continue forward again...in another direction in another way, because I refuse to give up.

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Who am I ??????

When the rest of the world appears to be asleep, I find myself standing beneath the canopy of stars that seem to glimmer a bit brighter at this time of year. The air is chiller, sharpening the edges of the shadows that form within the cloak of darkness. I look above, and I wait always for a falling star before I will go back inside.

Yesterday, I wrote about improving as opposed to changing, which set off a train wreck of thoughts throughout my mind in regards to how I would go about improving myself…finding myself lost in the clutter.

I have no idea who I am.

How can I improve upon something that I don’t even know?

There are moments when I think I know who I am not and what I do not want to be. But taking a honest, quiet look deep into myself I came up empty as to who I am. I have a many ideas of who I want to be, I see the person I play everyday in the role of my life…but is that something real?

I look into the mirror and see a mis-mash of positive thoughts, hopes, shame, guilt, dreams, fear, aspirations, beliefs, ideas, wants, desires and feelings reflected into the image of myself.

Who am I?

What inside of me is creating the reflection I paint upon the world at large? Who is it that whispers to me from within, gently nudging my thoughts and propelling me into the actions I display in the daily journey of my life.

When I first got clean it was necessary for me to forget most of what I had learned through life. I don’t particularly know how I did this, but all I knew at the time is what I believed about life offered me no hope for living a life…and I became willing to find another way.

Every idea, concept, belief, situation and circumstance became a challenge to discover more of who I was and more of who I was no longer willing to settle being. I knew that there had to be more, although at the time I had no proof of this. I essentially melted away with my beliefs in order to become flexible enough to re-mold myself into the person I am today…and now I’m not even sure of who that is.

I see myself and think…

I am a daughter.

A sister.

An Aunt.

A liar.

A girlfriend.

A friend.

A sponsor.

A sponsee.

A recovering addict.

A criminal.

A drug addict.

A thief.

An artist.

A writer.

A helper of the people.

Labels that exist solely to form the person I “see” myself as, at the many different points of time that my life is consisted of. What beliefs underly these perceptions I hold of myself that has molded these many aspects of who I believe I am and who I believed I was?

I know that for some time now, more of who I am exists within the positive realm…but I also know and feel that beneath and halfway to the middle of somewhere, exists other aspects of myself I do not have the capacity to yet see. Pieces of me that serve to help me redefine myself as well as parts that exist solely for me to stay lost within myself.

Frustration is what I felt for most of the day.

Stuck. Unsure. Uncertain. Lost.

Questions circled throughout my mind ….

How can I ever become more of anything until I know more of who I am?

How do I figure out who I am?

Is this it?

Is there anything more?

I used to call my sponsor when I would get into one of these frantic, confusing states of mind…shouting and pleading onto her voice mail..

“CALL ME BACK QUICK……..I’M THINKING AGAIN!”

I can, if allowed, drive myself crazy. But I know that crazy keeps me awake and aware; it allows me to keep searching, keep questioning, keep second guessing…it keeps me alive and it keeps me moving forward no matter what.

As I stood outside watching and waiting for a falling star. I started imagining that on one of those little flecks of light that sparkled in the darkness above me. Somewhere amidst all the stars, moons, suns, space dust and galaxies; someone stood much as I myself did, gazing upon the earth as it shone like a star in the darkness of the universe.

Questioning, wondering and watching for the stars to fall from the night…

They would wait much like I did; knowing full well that there is alway a star waiting for it’s moment to shimmer down from the heavens above in a brilliant dance of light for those with the patience, persistence and faith to seek it out.

Online Backup

The Internet has created a new age in which we now live and work. Just about anywhere one goes in the world the world wide web has allowed us to connect in ways never imagined before it's inception; businesses rely on it's accessibility of the this new age of computer technology.

Where years ago information was typically stored in the form of paper documents, a lot has changed throughout the years. Today most information is stored as data, which needs not only to be stored but also is necessary to back up.

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