“Love path, growth path, authenticity path!”
Words that rumbled up and out of a woman declaring the values she was committed to living until her dying breath and beyond.
They reverberated deep from the core of a woman who did not cower away from challenges.
She lived with grit in her spirit.
A grit that helped her look at her challenges directly.
Even when others preferred that she didn’t.
& the challenges she’s faced in her lifetime were more than most.
Challenges that exiled her.
Challenges that earned her the experience of rejection in a culture that prefers to pathologize deep pain it isn’t designed to digest.
But as she walked closer to death, I saw and felt the light around her increase.
She began to proclaim her truth more and more.
Miraculous, yet not surprising at all.
She showed me how her commitment to that path walked her home.
Grace arrived and surrounded her journey.
A true gift to witness.
May we all find the path we are here to walk and shout it, unapologetically, until our dying breath.
xx Lisa Marie
Big smiles reading this one, Lisa Marie. Pretty sure I could feel the joy.