Welcome to Inspiration-Lighthouse, a quiet space where words have led to painting. Offering a bridge, a next step along the path.
I am reflecting on the reasons I started painting, and the when. Meditation, writing and painting became necessary expressions of inner growth. Life happened so quickly and the perceived struggle years of parenting and working were all consuming, and reflecting now, I did set aside my creativity, placed it in a pocket within myself for later, in the same way I’d already packed up my guitar and in the years that went by I allowed my focus and the desire to tap into creativity to slip away.
Then Life gives you a little nudge, every now and then to see if you’re paying attention, sometime shouting through the loss of someone close or an injury or job or friendship that has drifted away. Choosing my creative self has been an act of pure love, I was busy being busy. I was desperately holding onto logic like holding on to the banks of the river, fearful of the unknown, of failing, fighting against the flow, trapped in a pattern that had been running for years, small.
When I finally surrendered, I let go, allowed the river to sweep me along, I have found such relief. There were people placed in my path with messages for me, and I am sometimes the messenger. Like the desert seed after rain, I started to grow and started to remember.
Life is life is life, it’s not what happens to you, it really is how you respond.
And I chose to surrender, to explore and grow and love me first, everday I step further into my authentic, resilient and living-life-in-the-present self with joy, with belly laughs, happiness and gratitude.
Rain always comes before the rainbow.
Light calls from the Lighthouse to lead weary travellers from the dark to a safe harbour.
See the light within yourself, let it inspire you to choose you, choose love and to keep going, you are so loved.