Authentic Expression 02: Soft Landing
January 1, 2024 — 3:29 PM
Year 2024 is for soft landings. I claim it. It is mine. It is time.
I am grateful to see another year. It feels good to be here. I am looking forward to this next chapter filled with forgiveness, liberation, soul-healing, and true love. I am in love with life and in love with the Divine. I take nothing for granted and cherish everything. I am ready to take root and produce fruit that will be everlasting.
Over the past week I have been deeply feeling the waves of grief and I know that, with this feeling, a chapter is closing. However, where one door closes, another door opens. For that, I am grateful. I have been grieving people who are no longer here (God I miss my loved ones), people who are no longer in my life (I wish you well, my love), and people I have just simply outgrown (all is well, you know). I am grieving environments and spaces that no longer fit the woman that I am becoming especially places that did not mean me any well. I am grieving what I thought life would look like by now. I am grieving and letting go of just about everything because I will take nothing but pure clarity and joy with me on this new journey. I stand in gratitude for what was as I look ahead to what will be. I know that nothing will be wasted as God will use everything (something I love and adore about Big G). As I am writing this, I am becoming teary-eyed all over again because letting go has never been easy. I know that I must let go in order to make space for what’s to come and that is okay.
My partner and I spent our NYE deeply cleaning our space while cooking cabbage and black eyed peas. We took a nice walk to visit the Lightscape exhibit at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and, as I was reminded of beginnings and endings, a wave of appreciation for it all washed over me. Honestly this grief and gratitude thing is a bit much if we are being honest but we carry on.
I am choosing this new era to be one of soft landing where I feel what needs to be felt and carry on knowing that everything will be okay. During my three years of therapy with my first therapist we talked about grief and that it was okay to not be okay. This time, I am feeling grief while simultaneously feeling okay and with that being said, it is okay to be okay. All is well and all will be, I know it — and for that knowing, I am okay.
I walk into year ‘24 with peace, joy, love, and CLARITY knowing that this will be the best year yet. I invite you to join me in having this mindset. Let’s take our time and enjoy every moment. Let’s do all the things we want to do. Let’s rave more about the things that move us. Let’s love and be unafraid to do it all over again. Let’s see ourselves as the best version yet — while we also holding space and forgiveness for who we were and all those things that came with that old version of us. Let’s land softly in this moment and every moment to come because we can and we deserve to. Here’s to year ‘24, a year of soft landings knowing that all is well and we are divinely taken care of. Happy New Year my loves.
