I Am A Woman of Wonder

"This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before." ~ Maya Angelou Oh, the beauty and possibilities to be found in a new day! Always filled with the unexpected, always open to the options and choices that the Universe provides. Of late I have found myself to be a woman of wonder. Each day I begin with an honoring ritual for what is yet to come. I trust that my guides, that Spirit, that the soulshapers on my path will bring love and light. It always is so. How? Because that is what I look for.

I have learned to go through my days without expectations, to live in the moment, to embrace the wonder of each day. It is always there, if only I remember to seek it. Even on those days with lots to do. Even on those days when I am a bit spent. Even on those days when others try to work the smile off my face. My woman of wonder can find something that holds delight. Now the rest is up to me!

We learn in life how to fan the flames. We do it with our thoughts, out intentions, our words and our actions. Which fire you choose to burn is the real question. I choose to burn fires of passion, inspiration, appreciation and beauty. With that intent in my soul, the Universe responds.

Each day can unfold with the greatest of possibilities and options. Each person we meet can offer lessons and gifts. Each conversation we hold can lead to a place of inspiring potential. Every step we take can create a new dance. It is beyond wonderful. It can be so. One can live in this essence and have this beauty surround and be a part of who they are. It becomes contagious! Others will want to be a part of this magic, but it is truly your reality! And it is all within you, around you, before you and up to you! You too can be a woman of wonder, look for it in your truth, look for it in life.

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade

Wild Woman

"Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of the wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become over-domesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped." -Clarissa Pinkola Estes Wild Woman embraces beauty for that is what feeds the essence of her Soul. But the beauty she embraces must be the purest in its form. Not highly processed and commercialized. No, she embraces the beauty found in a blade of grass, in the first sip of sweet tea, in the whispers of children, in the call of the hawk and in the holding of a friend’s hand.

Wild Woman embraces the power to be found in the shadows of her truth. Knowing that the balance lies in the place between the darkness and the light. Wild woman does not run and hide from her pain, but sits with it and allows it to talk to her in its own language, one not mimicked from any source but instead shared from heart.

Wild Woman fights to be heard. She will kick and scream and punch her way to the Truth if she needs to. But she will also tenderly share with grace and delight the delicate wonders that are birthed within her each day. She knows that her message matters and shares it with love.

Wild Woman lives simply, powerfully and creatively ensuring that she is available to all the richness designed for her by the Universe. She tends to her soul’s needs with a dedication. She opens her heart wide so that the flow of love is unblocked. She clears her mind of the lies, the mis-guidings and the opinions of others so that she can hear her authentic voice.

Wild Woman is willing to stand on the very edge and lean into the wind knowing her wings will lift her and if they don’t she trusts that the fall will be what saves her! Wild Woman trusts that being in the moment and being present allows the very cells of her being to vibrate and share in the frequency of the Universe and all is as it should be and she dances in that joy!

Blessings ~ Lisa

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Listen to the Voice of Integrity

Listen to the silent voice of your integrity. When the voice of knowledge becomes the voice of integrity, your emotional body becomes the way it was when you were a child. You return to the truth, to your own sense, you return to love, and you live in your happiness again. ~Don Miguel Ruiz Our world loves the quest for knowledge. Degrees are measures of success. Education is valued. And not that it shouldn’t be, but what we do with that knowledge needs to be equally valued or even more. How do we bring our knowledge into alignment with our intentions and connect that to our service and relationship with others?

When this alignment happens we feel so full of wholeness. Truth is the only meal the soul needs. Integrity builds our connection to truth. It fosters our relationship with our body, mind and soul. We find joy in our moments, we see beauty around us, we hear promise and hope, we have hearts overflowing with love and it is happiness that sets the rhythm of our steps along our path.

When we learn to listen, to truly listen to our integrity we allow its wisdom to mesh with our knowledge. We learn to shut out the chatter of the should’s of old stories and others opinion. We learn to hear the whisper of our soul. We trust the gentle nudging of our intuition. We put to practice what our purpose beckons.

When we learn to listen this way each day brings abundant possibilities to us. We find ourselves seeing with a perspective of brightness and wonder. Our doors and windows are wide open and we are ready to usher in the positive energies created by our intentions and our truth.

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade

I Open Myself Up To It And I Listen

Listen. Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind… in the air… in the light. It’s all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do… is listen. ~ August Rush Music soothes the soul, it helps the mind travel, it heals the heart and it empowers the body. Music is a tool that I use daily in my life. I escape to the worlds between the notes, I breathe in the rhythm and the beat, and I soar within the flow of the song. Music carries me to the places my soul longs to visit. It is sometimes the only vehicle I can rely on to take me to these places of peace, beauty, magic and inspiration. It is often a connection between mine and other souls. It reminds me of times and energies that I cherish dearly. I open myself up to it and I listen.

I do hear the music everywhere. Sometimes it is a subtle whisper behind the activities of my day, reminding me and grounding me. Sometimes I pull it right up front and lean into it as it supports me as I face the moments where I am needed to be present, full, wide awake and on. I open myself up to it and I listen.

Each morning I wake to the song of the birds; their voices rising to greet the day. As my daily rituals take shape and form I carry the songs of my ancestors in my heart, humming melodies that are not forgotten. Moving on to my tasks and interacting with the world I hear the music that the dance of the day responds to. I open myself up to it and I listen.

Music, I hear it when I look into my husband’s eyes, when I hear my children’s laughter, when I smell the flowers blooming, when I walk in the wet grass, when I heal the wounded, when I hold your heart tenderly in mine and when I lay back to rest my body into dreams. I open myself up to it and I listen.

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT Lisa Meade 2013