Showing posts with label brave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brave. Show all posts

are you sure you are ready for this?

a slow start,
to a powerful beginning.
it is as if being sick,
has helped me to see,
that I am ready to heal.

I have been quite sick the last few weeks. sick like "bang me on the head and knock me out sick". I don't know where the hell it came from, but that isn't important. I had been feeling lately like I needed a break. time to think and time to move forward. move forward with so many things. release the fear and really be "brave".

I question whether or not I am ready for the challenge. I ask myself as others have asked of me "are you sure you are ready for this?" let me ask you this I say - did you know when you started college that you were ready? when you got married. did you know you were ready? after you announced you were pregnant and people asked "are you ready for this?"

I think in our gut we know when it is time. I do not believe that we can know with 100 % conviction that we are ready for anything. I think we make a choice - yes or no - and we do it or we don't.

I also believe that this recent bout of supreme yuck was to tell me that I am ready. it is okay to take off a layer of protection and take the first step.

I have coughed out the gremlins and blew my nose till I could breathe again. my lungs feel stronger and head clear. I am gonna do it and it will probably be one of the best things I have ever done for myself.

I will never understand how anyone could abandon you.

I would love to thank them for their bravery.

I will never understand how I could abandon myself.

am I brave by holding on?

I want to thank you for your caring eyes

that follow my every move.

and your nose kisses.

and your begging to be held.

I tell people that I rescued you, but the truth is

you rescued me.

that's ok...


there will be days when you are not strong...

there may be moments when you have to let go...

you might not make it over the mountain - today...

and today without witness you may break,

and the tears will fall,

and you feel like you are all alone,

and that's ok.

you are not perfect,

but you are brave,

and you do the best you can with what you have,

and you remind yourself that you did not fail,

and you can try again.

and that's ok.