Reverb December 21 – Future Self. Imagine yourself five years from now. What advice would you give your current self for the year ahead? (Bonus: Write a note to yourself 10 years ago. What would you tell your younger self?) (Author: Jenny Blake)
Dear Julie,
You are on the forefront of your personal revolution, that revolution of birth.
You are shedding the stillbirth skin you have been wearing for nearly 21 years. Marlena is dancing in heaven. Katherine, Emma and Samuel are dancing on Earth.
It may feel scary and wobbly and I know you will remember what it was like before this chapter began. You have done so well with it, you have fully integrated all these lessons and in such vivid color.
I feel like singing "Happy Birth Day!" in a different language because, beloved one, while words are your paint and life is your paint brush, there are so many aspects of you words can not hold.
And I know you are reaching out in celebration and saying "I know... isn't that great!?" your impish smile fully alive.
Hold that impish, loving and simultaneously soulful you on your outside as well as your inside.
Be bold and always remember love, first.
Spend your well and freely, without being afraid of its power. Be a passionate steward of love, remember how passionate detachment is full throttle and oh, so present and delighted, whatever the outcome may be.
You are so naturally gifted at this, Julie.
2011 is your year of celebration, your year of fruition, your year of Abondanza!! and in it being YOUR world it is also the WORLD'S year.
Lift your face to heaven, ground your feet to the earth, hang upside down and glide across the water in a canoe... do it all with abandon and relish. Laugh loud, its fine.
You are love incarnate.
I'll see you soon!
The 2016 Julie
Bonus: Letter to My Younger Self
Dear December 2000 Julie,
You got through this first year of the New Millenium! YAY!
I know you are scared. Why wouldn't you be? You are alone with your children and pregnant, again, a woops baby at your age? I know you feel stupid about it but you know what? You are about to enter the most significant love affair in your life, with your little boy. You won't feel like it at first. I know, you are expecting Chiara to come bursting out of you but you are not carrying Chiara, you are carrying Samuel.
He is precious, Julie. He is different than you will expect. Along the way you will have moments where you think you will not make it but lo and behold, you will make it and hey, as you have learned over and over, it will be even better than you could have planned.
We'll meet up in ten years and you may look similar, but underneath ~ inside... you will be so much better.
When you lose people in this decade, remember your sadness comes from the love you have shared. Feel every feeling completely. Don't be shamed into erasing or speeding through those feelings.
You are love incarnate.
I'll see you, soon.
Your December 2010 Julie
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