Category: Choices

Always Growing

by Danielle Atkinson, posted in Choices, Growth, sadness, grief, pain, prayer, peace

This year has been very hard. I lost some very dear, loved ones and I am still grieving. I have been stuck in a place of wanting to go forward and also wanting to remain. It seems like the two have been parallel in time. In saying that, I have kept moving, growing, learning, creating, and exploring the complex world around and I have given myself a space and time to just be. I have stopped trying to answer all of the mysteries surrounding life and I have kept my thoughts and hurt inside.

I write today because it gives me a comfort to know that I am not the only person who is grieving, and if I can give just one person faith to know, seasons change. We are always growing whether we want to admit it, it is what we do. We grow through hurt, pain, grief, love, laughter, heartache, joy, anger, and all of the other emotions we have. It doesn’t mean we will understand all of the why’s, but we Will grow through those times and keep growing.

I have chosen to use writing, and educating, and joy to keep growing and in that I intern will work out my grief in my own way. So remember, when you meet a person, give them space to work out what they are feeling because we all need time. We are all growing!

My New Course

Featured by Danielle Atkinson, posted in Choices, Growth, Pain, Help

Introducing my new course! This course is designed for those people who struggle with life in general. I have some great tips and ideas so check it out!

https://youmademebeautiful.thinkific.com/courses/the-emerging-butterfly

Wishing It Were not So

by Danielle Atkinson, posted in Choices, Growth, Pain, Help

There is that thing that you wished were not so. It may just be me, but I doubt if I am alone. Finding out something you just didn’t want to know, and it hurts so bad that you wish it were not so. I have a hard time with changing situations, changing times, pretty much anything that changes, but nevertheless it is what it is. For everyone that wished it were not so, I UNDERSTAND.

The solution is to accept the new change, or situation, and find a way to move onto the next because one things for sure, this too shall pass. It will keep changing, it will keep being new and it will keep you wishing it were not so. I am accepting this fact DAILY. I don’t think I will ever fully accept the changes but I will put all things into perspective and grow.

Blessings~

Find the Value

by Danielle Atkinson, posted in Choices

Each moment you have has value. There are times when a moment is all you have. Your moment could be waiting for your child to get out of school, or while you are waiting on your clothes to dry. Your moments are what make up the content of your life. Each moment holds the value of your life. Every second holds history and that history is ultimately value.

Although in the moment it seems so insignificant because it goes by so fast but finding value in those moments keeps your perspective clear. For it is in those fleeting moments that everything can change. In an instant life can be gone. In an instant, someone can have the greatest victory they have had. In an instant life can completely change.

What have you loathed doing because it, “takes so long”? How can you find the value in the life you have and the things you have to do?

Plan your life, but value the moments.

Blessings~

Finding the ”New”

by Danielle Atkinson, posted in Choices, Fly, Future, Growth

There are times when what you are currently doing is in need of change. It might have been working for quite some time but it needs something new. It sometimes just needs a little change but other times it needs a fresh overhaul! Finding a new anything is difficult! But the process lends itself to teach you something different. Maybe it’s a new angle for the same problem, or maybe it’s a new way to approach an old issue that must be resolved. It could be as simple as finding a new way to speak to someone you might have been afraid to approach.

Whatever your “new” is will be a little intimidating, it might actually be very intimidating but all in all it will be necessary and needed for your next adventure. Remember, after you find your “new” it will open possibilities you couldn’t have imagined.

Blessings~

Your Gifts WILL Make Room For You

by Danielle Atkinson, posted in Choices, Growth, Soar

I have heard this all my life and I somewhat understood its full meaning. Your gifts are unique to YOU! No one can do what you do, how you do, the specific way YOU do. Each of us have something special that was in our genetic makeup that we had Nothing to do with. God gave ALL of us “Something Special” that only YOU have. I know it’s hard to believe because the world we live in will have one to believe that we should all be the same.

Somehow being “Different” is looked at as being an outsider. But, how can your gifts make room for you if everyone has the SAME gift? Your unique “Way” is a gift to this world, and someone Will recognize your unique gifting and make room for YOU to shine!

BE YOU AND DO WHAT ONLY YOU CAN DO!

Blessings~

Activity

by Danielle Atkinson, posted in Choices, Growth, Memories, Uncategorized

We are always active, but what are we active doing?  Is it helpful, hurtful, fulfilling, or time consuming?  We spend time doing things that we love doing or doing things we have to do.  Either way our activities create our life, whether those activities are consuming our lives or whether those activities are adding to our lives is our own perception.  Choose those activities that enhance your life.  Choose activities that enhance others around you.  Choose activities that add to your existence and the existence of human life and you will never feel unfulfilled.  You will feel fueled to do more of those types of activities.

Blessings~