Suzanne’s Personal Quote and Blog for 11/3/2022

Quote

Take a chance and find a life.

Take a risk and grab a knife.

To cut away the strings that bound the mind.

And free oneself from what has left us confined.

What once was safe can become a prison.

It is time to allow what inside has awoken and risen.

Who you can become needs new and fertile soil.

And to get out of our own trap we need to uncoil.

From the safety that would allow us to heal.

But now we need to make a new deal.

One that will allow us to embrace the discomfort of liberty.
But also free us from the endless misery.

Let us lean into those places of change.

Allow what could be … to rearrange.

What we thought we needed and desired.

Into a life that we love and one that is inspired.

~Suzanne Wagner~

Blog

Today I reflect on how far I have come.

I look at the lessons that were so hard won.

I am grateful for the risks that took me beyond the old.

And allowed me to make mistakes while I learned to be bold.
For over a decade I have leaned into a new life.

And that risk was not without discomfort or strife.

Minds compare the unfamiliar to the known.

Yet my ego … always loved to cast the first stone.

But in a new land where everything was different.

I learned about those places where I could be belligerent.

I did not understand at first the reasons why.

And there were many moments when I was alone and would cry.

But the tears were not about the choices I had made.

They were because I could see the fear in which I had laid.

How many times … I chose safety over … growth.

All the moments when I did not believe I could have both.

Both love and freedom, safety and change.

Both truth and kindness, sharing and exchange.

I look into those moments when so much seemed at risk.

And I can see the angel’s hand in moving me towards a real kiss.

One that would open me to the truth of my own pain.

And a life that would allow me to find myself again.

~Suzanne Wagner~

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