KAREN BRAILSFORD
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​LIFE AND LIBERTY


 
We are meant to be free—wholly, blessedly, dynamically free. When liberated of the false constraints that shackle and bind our desires and conjuring skills, we are able to bring forth untold riches. We are not meant to generate vast repositories of money and objects but reserves of endless potentiality and jewels that until now have never been minded. This is true value.
 
Freedom is a glorious thing for we can think. It’s within our thinking, after all, where we really get to expand and soar. We catch ahold of and then latch onto a vision. One caveat—do not cling. Our grasp must be loose so as to allow other possibilities to flow. There are always surprises awaiting us. There are always dreams more fantastic than we can begin to imagine wanting to take shape in our consciousness. 
 
We’ve come this far by faith—and by envisioning and allowing. Our task is to knead the vision with spiritual practice—prayer, meditation and affirmations—and then to allow the vision to ferment rather than foment. While kneading be sure to avoid a descent into pleading. Rise up and sing a praise song of gratitude. Rise up and dance to the rhythms of the earth and sky and seas. Be in concert with the natural order of things.
 
Now we are free to live up to the ideals we have set for body, for soul, for country, for the planet. Now we are free to loveup to the grand plans we once had for ourselves and for the world. When we stare inhumanity in the face, we slay it with shards of love and conquer it with fierce justice. In retribution we declare: I am and you will see me. You will see me because I am. I breathe. God breathes me.  My life matters.


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© ​Karen Brailsford 2020-2022
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      • The Glass Is Always Full
      • You Will Know
    • Sacred Landscapes (excerpts) >
      • Spiraling
      • Sacred Landscapes of the Soul
      • Go Directly to Jubilee
      • Bring the Party
      • A Life Is God Writ Large
      • Soot into Soil
      • In the Here and Now
      • Creation Story
      • In This Skin
    • Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (recitation)
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    • God's Love Keeps Lifting Us Higher and Higher (talk)
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  • Book Agenting
    • Aevitas Creative Management
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    • His Name Is George Floyd
    • Kamala's Way
  • Write Volumes
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      • It Takes All Kinds
      • All is Nothing
      • Ever After
      • Dinner Parties
      • Shades of Love
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      • Mommy, Still
    • Poems >
      • Covid: Covert No More
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