Living Open Wide

A friend of mind posted this on her blog... thought I'd share...  

Living Wide Open: Landscapes of the Mind

I will not die an unlived life

I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire

I choose to inhabit my days,

to allow my living to open me

to make me less afraid

more accessible

to loosen my heart

until it becomes a wing,

a torch, a promise.

I choose to risk my significance, to live

so that which came to me as a seed

goes to the next as a blossom

and that which came to me as blossom

goes on as fruit.

(Dawna Markova. 2000. I will not die an unlived life: Reclaiming purpose and passion)

Today...

You've Already Won the Battle   from Heart to Heart with Holley

I read the words written on old pages to an old nation as 

they crossed the desert into a new land -- God will fight for you.

And I draw in a deep breath.

Because I need those words now.

Don't we all?

Oh, we may not go to war.

But we fight...

for relationships

for dreams

We battle...

against illness

against discouragement

I think of you staring at the screen, perhaps feeling your strength is small. Oh, yes, I know what that's like.

But victory isn't up to us.

And those words you sometimes hear? "You're not worth fighting for."

They're a lie.

Nothing more.

This is the truth from the heart of One who calls you His own:

You are loved.

You are worth fighting for.

You are even worth dying for.

So go into your day, strong friend, knowing that nothing can defeat you.

You've already won.