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It's been awhile!
Hope everyone has been well.
STAY BLESSED.

21/10/2024

MONDAY MELODY TO MONDAY MOOD

At the wise advice of my singing teacher, Monday Melody will rest as i rest my voice.

During this time it will be Monday Mood shaped by the whims of mood the day.

My wise teacher heard my heart cry of wanting to sing but feeling strained and down at not being to project a song as I feel it in my heart.

Alas...the strain my vocals have gone through over the years, chain smoking, pulling bongs, Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, CPAP machines and now working in call centre 8 hrs 4x times a week has taken it's toll.

Does this mean my singing ends?

NOOOOOOO...It means I must rehabilitate my vocals.

I am relieved for it was stressing me out that even though I was committed to MONDAY MELODY, deep down I was disappointed because it wasn't how I wanted it to be.

I know I've sounded better in the past but I must give myself patience and grace, my physiology was much different back then.

So, my vocals are in rehabilitation.

This excites me cause it's sound and it's wise.

It makes perfect sense!

Tonight's singing lesson was brilliant,my teacher found me. She knows what to do with me.

I cried.

I really did, I cried!

There is much excitement being in the hands of great of mentors and teachers that get you.

And they get you because they are genuinely invested in you.

Only people genuinely invested in you can truly see you, see your need and know how to meet them to raise them to the vision of yourself that you shared with them.

Even more so, they even add to that vision an aspect of yourself that you couldn't even have had imagined of yourself.

So for today's MONDAY MOOD, it's about having the wisdom of finding, praying, inviting, great mentors and teachers into your life that honour your genius because they can see and know how to draw it out.

Truly blessed today.

14/10/2024

I WANT REAL LOVE!

Dont we all?

For people who have been disillusioned by spiritual abuse or hurt unintentionally by well intentioned believers, religion becomes a real turn off.

It's not the religion but the overtreaded rituals, or the rules and regulations that somehow become greater than the One which religion was built around.

I have softened somewhat towards relgious acts and find blessings in the rituals of religion, but I will never again make it greater than a relationship with Jesus.

The Mary and Martha story.

Martha thought she had to "do" before being able to sit at Jesus’s feet where Mary was simply "being" at His feet.

Mary chose the right thing.

I think it's beautiful when religion is borne out love for God. It is sad when we are taught to earn His love by being religious first and force that on people.

We have His love already, unearned, the cross made it accessible to all.

Before the cross, rituals got us to God, now only Jesus gets us to God. He gave His all to make it so.

That's REAL LOVE.

(Even though this song is out of my vocal range, I had to do it. The original is incredible. It's called Real Love by Blanca. She punches the words right to the heart of people who have thought it but were afraid to say it.)

07/10/2024

Monday Melody

The more I get to know God, the more evident my short falls become that I become more aware of how much more I need Him.

The closer I get, the less satisfied I become with my failings that what I once accepted becomes intolerable and so I need Him more to even tolerate what I no longer can.

In His mercy, He changes me.

The closer I get, the more humble I become.

It is so unlike the mastery of this world.

In this world, the more a person develops is the more a person becomes a master at their craft.

Not so in faith.

Not so in my experience.

The more my faith grows, the more my need grows for THE Master. I become more painfully aware that I truly cannot sustain ANY good without Him.

Lest I go back to my old life.

Not that He'll make it easy for me to do so.

For HIS namesake.

Freedom is knowing the need of God and not needing to fight against it all the time.

My human nature will always struggle against Him but my spirit surrenders gladly in my need of Him.

More and more each day, more than yesterday.

26/09/2024

This is such an important statement. Healing is not a fluffy feel good process. It is a roller coaster ride of emotions.

25/09/2024

How alarming!

I live alarmed,

For wakeups

For breaks

For logging on

For logging off

For running late

For calling mates

Alarming how alarmed I live

Oh what I'd give

To live

Unalarmed again

Where the street lights were my indication to go home

Or my friend's parents set the table which signalled my time to leave.

Or the hollering of my Mum was my home time

My teacher packing up said the end of day was near

To live unalarmed was a luxury in the 20/20 vision of hindsight

Ruled by alarms now has me fully alarmed.

My poor adrenal glands, my poor body dealing with the cortisol of it all.

I alarmed, unarmed, alarmed

No wonder my eyes are often itchy and dry wide eyed hanging out of their sockets.

Perpetually like a deer in headlights, another alarm is due, any second now.......and off it goes as must I.

Alarming isn't it?

23/09/2024

Not from want but from being sick that Monday Melody has yet again been postponed.

Still I am blessed regardless.

The best is yet to come.

17/09/2024

Monday Melody...it was meant to be

Can't believe I didn't select post! Perhaps subconsciously as voice still not up to par.

Point is, be vulnerable, show up, the best is yet to come.

Stay blessed!

02/09/2024

MONDAY MELODY WILL BE BACK
NEXT WEEK

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