Journey of the Heart

If you saw author Paulo Coelho on Oprah soul series you will know from whence my inspiration came!! I thoroughly enjoyed his amazing life story and slept like a rock until I was awakened at 5 a.m. to pen the following.  It flowed from me as I acknowledged my confidence arising in the blessing I have to share using my voice.  We all have the ability to genuinely encourage and hold one another up.  May we recognize how deeply our own hearts are filled each time we offer a kindness to another. Feed My Sheep speak truth into the hearts and minds and ears of your fellow man feed him the living bread of life with your words his ears will devour this very provision like a hungry wolf waiting in the dark, wooded corner of his soul he will chew and chew and chew on your offering until all at once it will fill him to overflowing, his mouth spewing the prized excess he will know that this very sustenance shall abide in him ...

Amongst other things, I’m a musician – my degree’s in music and I’m a music teacher… Over the years, then, I’ve sung with many choirs and ensembles, big and small. Singing with others, it’s essential that I have a voice. However, if I don’t also listen carefully to all the other voices, and pay attention to them, and make sure that my voice is in accord with theirs, in harmony with the whole, and helping to make the overall sound more as it should be, then it would be better for me to remain silent. Likewise, in everyday life, it’s important to find one’s own voice and, having found it, to use it – to speak out and to be heard. This is indisputable, I think, in the interest of fairness and, where we see people who don’t have a voice, or whose voices are not heard, those of us who are more fortunate try – hopefully – to use our advantage to help them to their own emancipation; to a place where they, too, have a voice and where that voice is heard. Perhaps, though, it’s even...