You Are Not Forgotten

  I think each of us at some point in life has felt unnoticed and like we are not really known. It may have been by our parents, our friends, our siblings, our children, our teachers, our bosses, our spouse or significant other..and there is God...maybe you feel like He has forgotten you exist...there have been days where you wake up and are lying in bed and it just doesn't feel like getting out of it has any point at all. It feels like no one will notice if you dont get up or they wont notice for the right reasons.

  This might not be true at all. It may be that we are cared for by many many people, or a handful of people, or just one person but sometimes we need to switch our thinking. We are cared for by someone. If we feel we are truly alone in the world...why is this? How can we reach out and where can we reach out? I hear my five year old say things like, 'Why am I the ONLY ONE IN THIS FAMILY who's hat wont stay on!!!!' Why am I the ONLY ONE IN THIS FAMILY who has to eat dinner!!!' and I think that is often how I feel. Why am I the ONLY ONE IN THIS WORLD that feels like this. Why am I so sad so often, why does this heaviness pervade, why am I the ONLY ONE....

    and I am an adult so I have the capacity to realize I am NOT the only one. I have also learned that thoughts are just thoughts and there are ways to take them captive. However that is not easy...nope not at all. Sometimes its like a runaway train up there, a really big one, and the brakes have failed and its headed somewhere bad. There is a crashing point somewhere right? I've got to be more responsible for myself. I've got to have those brakes working well and the tracks in good shape so that when the train needs to stop, and stop fast, it will.
  My thoughts have held me captive many a time. I reflect on the sad past, I think about how people in my life are suffering, I think about the world, I think about relationships in my life and I just start hearing lies lies lies and I let them sink in.
  Today is a good day to stop the train. Today is a good day to get up and get out of bed and to open up the windows of the soul. It needs fresh air, a little rain, some sunshine and sometimes a good airing out so it can breathe deep and light can chase out the darkness.

Here is the TRUTH

   You are a treasure and if you really want to be known you have to know who you are and why you are who you are. You need to love who you are and soften your spirit so that others can connect with you. You are worth relationships, you are worth healing, you are worth beauty and laughter, you are worth all the good this world is offering with an open hand. Sometimes it may feel that there is no good in the world but there always is. The ugliness and pain does not need to rule you with its iron fist. You may need to walk through the journey of pain, but stand strong and take hold of all the good there is being offered through the pain and tell the lies and darkness to leave you NOW. You are not the only one. You really are not. You are here for many precious reasons. You have worth and value and beauty and you are known. You are noticed  ~ YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN.
Bless you dear one
xo