What if we opened ourselves up more and allowed ourselves to be changed — by life, by love, by growth, by vulnerability, by heartbreak, by joy, by the sacred?

But this requires that we become present to life — allowing ourselves to feel again. To be vulnerable.

Too often we become numb, afraid to open back up to a world that once hurt us (that was me and so many of us). But to live is to experience.

We’re meant to grow and transform through what we live. The question is: what do you do with the life you’ve been given?

How do you let it change you? Do you let it make you numb and invisible? Do you let it convince you you’re less than, a burden, too much, or that you should be just like everyone else? Or do you let it reveal your strengths and gifts — let it make you stronger, wiser, gentler, softer, more loving?

I would hope you choose for life to reveal you. To let it change you for the better. While also being discerning if it’s changing you into someone you’re not.

Because we get to choose. We get to choose how it changes us.

Life means something. You mean something. And you get to choose what life means to you — what matters most.

So open up more. Go create. Go dream. Go be. Go do the great things only you can. Time and life are too precious not to.

Right there with you. 💗