I have a gift…

I am no one special, the fact that I have a gift is not special either because we all have a gift.

The difference is, mine is currently sitting on the back burner. Cold, moldy and uneatable.

Where’s yours?

My gift, wasted and unused when it should be hot and ready to serve the hungry.

Why?

I have a million excuses why but as I told someone just the other day, “Either you make things a priority or you make an excuse.” Seems my list of excuses has finally caught up with me.

I am here to write, inspire, and make a difference with my words. So that they in turn make an impact and help change the world. For the better.

What’s your gift?

So today I tell you and when I say you, I always mean me. “Stop making excuses for wasting your gift.” We say we don’t have the time, the tools, influence or money… excuses.

What’s your excuse?

We know what we came here to do. We all do. It calls us, sometimes it whispers and other times it screams. Well, tonight I heard a lot of screaming. I am not here to apologize; I am here to recommit. To you, “me,” the planet and the universe, that I am ready to get back to giving my gift.

Are you?

I had a feeling of hopelessness tonight.

Through my tears, as they soaked the coat of my beautiful dog Roo, I whispered in her ear, “How can I make a difference?” I was not expecting her to reply. It was more of a plea to the universe or whomever was listening and the answer was there, it always is. “Write.”

What is it whispering to you?

So here I am. I’m showing up. Letting it be known, that I know! I am raising my hands to the sky, “I hear you!” I don’t always know what it is I am to write but I trust that it will show up. We have to trust in ourselves. Start believing in ourselves. Committing to ourselves, to be our truest selves. Not some carbon copies mirroring back what the world wants to see in us. What we think the world wants to see in us, expects from us!

Let us not the allow the world to distract us from who we are and what we are here to do.

We are not victims of life.

Carelessly being tossed by the waves of social media and the news. Ruled by alarm clocks and iPhones. Led by fall fashions, holiday themed table cloths and who’s kneeling in the NFL.

No. Let us not be distracted.

Let us reclaim our gifts and share them with the world. So that we can awaken our true spirits. Where every day is a new opportunity to take back our lives and so that we may live them passionately. Allowing us to live a life we love, in a world we are proud of. All of this is still possible.

The moment we start giving our gift, we change the world.

Write back soon, love Annie.

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