Wylde Women Wednesday

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Wylde Women

ok, yes, another weekly feature. This one, I am particularly excited about.  Back at the beginning of my  journey, Tammy Vitale posted a comment or two and planted some seeds of can-do attitude in me. With various changes in blog hosts and blog readers, I lost track of Tammy but recently stumbled across her site again. Oh happy day!

I immediately signed up for her Wylde Women’s Wisdom emails, an empowering, inspirational quote sent to your inbox each day!  She also offers these fun, funky coloring pages.

While reading on her blog, I saw the Wylde Women Award and my mind started spinning. There are SO many wonderful women in my life that I want to honor and to celebrate.  I am devoting Wednesday to just that.

How to recognize Wylde Women:

They listen to their heart.

They take at least one step every day

toward following what they hear.

They are not afraid of the dark.

They recognize fear of the unknown

as the norm for someone creating a new path.

They take their step(s) despite the fear.

They find a person or a group or a community to walk with them.

They are not afraid of their own power, and so

They believe that dreams can come true.

They persist.

They persist.

They persist.

Tammy Vitale

So today, I am sending this award and these words out to Kimber and to Amber, my friend and my daughter, respectively.

These are words I think you need to hear today.

I want to remind you that you are wonderful;

you are glorious; you are brave;

You are WYLDE WOMEN!

 

The Good You Do

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Christine Kane

I’ve avoided the news a bit lately. There’s a lot going on, there’s been a lot going on for a while now. I guess since the dawn of time there’s been conflicts, disasters, injustice.

The oil spill was the tipping point for me. I just couldn’t absorb the magnitude of damage, the inability to stop it, the blame game surrounding it. When I felt myself teetering on the edge of despair, I turned off the news.

It is not that I want to stick my head in the sand and pretend like nothing is going on. But it all seems so big and I seem so small. What difference can I make? We do what we can. But is it enough? Does it really matter?

That is just one issue. There are many, many more and it seems so difficult to figure out what the right thing is to do and then again sometimes, I feel like I am just here in a small circle of people and my ripple in the water is so small, it will never amount to anything.

Then Sunday at church, this song:

The Good You Do
(Christine Kane)

You say that in times like these
You’re driven down to your knees
Looking around grieving what peace there was
You promised yourself you would
Work for a world of good
Look at you now wondering what good it does

No lost hope no violent point of view
Can erase all of the good you do

There’s nothing as dark as night
But nothing so strong as light
Here is the choice: to let it burn out or bright
In a world where the fear and force
Have buried the silent source
Can you deny the need for a light like yours

No fast pace no jaded attitude
Can erase all of the good you do

If someone has left his wrath
On everything in his path
Taking the wealth and leaving his trash behind
Will you be peace or pride
Can you at last decide
There’s no one to fight we are the same inside
So go home and get some rest
There’s many more miles and tests
All about love what if it comes to be all that we have left

No dark place no debt and no abuse
Can erase all of the good you do

I needed the reminder that the good I do is enough.  It’s all I have to offer.  Ultimately, I am not sure it is my responsibility to worry about what comes after that. I simply must offer the good I have.

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