Day 4: Open Up

Keri Kenney • December 5, 2019

"I do this for love not for validation"

Today, I am opening my heart and arms to being open to receiving the beautiful gifts wrapped in love, kindness, and sincerity I am given every single day.

This moment of my life is the fruition of moving through the heart and the hardest struggles of my life. This is the product a million billion teeny tiny choices and a handful of BIG ones of all choosing love… for myself first and foremost and trusting what I feel - which has been hard, lonely, and oh so very worth it.


It’s built my resilience.

And in the darkness,

I have discovered my own gifts of movement, melody, meditation, and practicing being a kind and forgiving human.

I would not be where I am today if it wasn't for some gigantic heartbreaks and mistakes.

I have felt it all.

And when I felt the joy, the magick, the “home” Alignment8 gave me over 5 years ago, I knew it was what my brokenness had been looking and leading me toward.


Grit, grace, and grind brought me to this moment where the fruit of many labors and loss has created. And it's beautiful. And I am in amazement and awe every single day.


And yet I still have a hard time being fully open to all the love pouring my way…


A byproduct of past traumas showing up.

And I am ready to let it go.

I am ready to breathe into those spaces and give myself room to rejoice in all that is around me!

I have held enough pain and sorrow - personal doubt and denial - it's time to shed what causes struggle and I thank you for reminding me I can and being apart of the process that has shown me how.


It’s freeing.

And that's all I want for you too.


I want to give you all the affirmation - all the love - all the celebration - because you deserve!

We deserve it!


And in our we there is a flow - which means we must have harmony - which requires me to be open - even if it’s scary!



To give is a movement from the heart.

I give from my heart.

And I know you do too.


So my commitment tonight is to release the struggle of rejecting the love being shared with me and opening my heart even more than ever to seeing and feeling the magick and love around me and within me!


This is the lotus.


And I thank you for reminding how safe I can feel and how beautiful this life can be.

I can only hope to contribute to your life the same.


May we look back and reflect on where we have been, just be grateful for all we have right now.

And in this now, may we still look forward and let love lead us to that new horizon.




Namaste,

keri


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