Pick Up Your Power 3

Pick up your power and use it.  Please.
Your power is your uniqueness.  There’s a reason that you’re you and not anybody else.
Your power lies in your skills, talents, discipline, determination, luck…blessings.  Some of it is genetic, some of it is environment, some of it is nurturance, some of it was given to you, and some of it you’ve created.

You got born.  Not every conception makes it to life.  You survived childhood.  Not every child gets grown.  You’re moving beyond the world of your ancestors and parents.  Kahlil Gibran said it best,  “Your children are not your children, they are the sons and the daughters of life’s longing for itself.”  (Sweet Honey ‘n’ the Rock has recorded a lovely song of this poem.)

You belong here.  You are allowed to be fully here and to take advantage of everything that you can.  No matter what you don’t have – you do have a lot and it only takes a little of that lot to do, be, live.  Don’t think about what you can’t do – do what you can.  Today.  Tomorrow.  Continuously.

Be your best self as often as you can. 

You’re beautiful.  Your face is a reflection of God.  You were meant to look the way you look.  Enhance if you want to but who you are without the enhancements is a reflection of God. 

Make time for those things that are crucial to you.  “Not the thing you could do, or the thing you should do, or the thing that you have always done, but the thing you want to do.  The one that burns in your soul and won’t give you rest.  (These lines are from a short story I wrote, “How I Got Here.”  I hope to publish it one day soon.)

You have power.  Pick it up.  Use it.  Please.