SAYING GRACE

I follow a fella on Social Media (mrbobbybones on insta) and he has started on his Insta Stories at night vibing what I love the most. Lighting a candle in a dark room and having a song of the night playing. Mood music if you will. I am spellbound and within the cusp of distance I am impacted. Cusp defined is a point of transition between two different states, a pointed end where two curves meet. How perfect that last Night his song of the Night was Jake Owen's "I was made for you." I have always liked the song but it hit me different when I saw and heard this late last night. It set the beautiful tone of the ending of a really good day. It made me think of a girl I adore who is on her Honeymoon and I pray she is dancing with her Groom to this very song.   June has always been the "wedding month" and I have two special weddings to attend this month. I being the romantic I am; I have to admit I am beside myself with glee. It is as if someone injected me with cupid potion straight arrowed to my heart. My oldest Godchild who has been like a Daughter to me got married to the one who completes her this past weekend. To say it inspired me would not begin to scratch the surface. It  forever changed me. When this gorgeous girl went to throw her bouquet she locked eyes with me and did her fingers in a V in front of her eyes then towards me(and probably all the others knowing her). It was as if magically she cast her spell during her momentous moment as imagining the pyschedelic hue spiraled and danced through the air with glistens of glitter straight to the depths of my being. Most certain all the other single ladies with me felt it too.  Although the bouquet was not caught by me, she threw me something so much more tangible to my Soul. As if struck by lightening I caught the realization that she saw in me something I did not and it taught me the importance of us all adjusting our focus.

This girl was given her name by her Mama which means Grace. Grace defined is simple elegance or refinement of movement.do honor or credit to (someone or something) by one's presence. She lived up to her name in every way. Most of all she imparted herself by her presence in the most unimaginable ways. Truly imparting herself in every way. At her bridesmaids luncheon I joked that I was going to have to leave the room because of my overcomed state of emotion. She spoke tearfully from her heart and soul to each of those who would be attending and to each one as she presented their gift increasing the value of what she was presenting. She included the Grandmothers, Mothers and even her Mams. We were graced. She and her bridesmaids all stayed in my Home this evening and all got ready within my boarders and took their pictures with her Parents, Me and all her girls within the helms of where me and my Daughter reside. I shall never view this Home or yard the same. No matter where life takes me it will go with me for it was planted deep within the fibers of my being. I am convinced as Ruth stated in the Bible one of my Favorite verses and quote, I have hanging in the heart of my Home, my kitchen for it is something 

that I view with my eyes from my Soulful Heart. These are the moments I live for. Those unforgetable moments that I will carry with me forever to replay throughout my days.  The morning of her wedding her Mother and I were sitting on the porch having our coffee and she and a couple other girls joined us. She looked at me and said, "Mams, your Home, it just has that sense that you can feel....it is special." My Home had been graced. She gifted me a book at her luncheon titled Celebrate Every Day. Inside on the first page,she wrote the following

I find it wildly ironic that me journaling my celebrated moments started here. For I have been awoken in such a manner that I had not realized had been in a deep slumber. That is the Awe inspiring knock me over with a feather moments that someone graced us. It is as magical as we allow it. Beauty is we control the dial of volume, and for me it is all the way up to ten. I could not be me turned down. You would not, could not shine with your God given finesse as anyone other than who you are way deep down inside. I will liken this to Snapchat. Those posts that appear and somehow life can try to erase. We have unlimited resources to impart and inspire those around us. Now a days we can add gif's and emoji's to up the ante on our thoughts and actions. Driving our intentions deeper, penetrating through the walls and hopefully tear down those that life will sometimes build. Like my cyber friend who I have never met and probably never will, he met me at the cusp. Smiling as I envision this as what used to be meeting at the water cooler. I used to work in an office where we would email and instant messenger had just been born. We would email "coffee break" to gather to see one another for that personalization that hearing and seeing one another could not be matched. To truly "see" one another is the hallmark of gifts to give and receive. 

The note she gave me with my book

These are her reading her very own letter before she walked down the isle from her Beloved. 

Think on each of these words for a moment, stalling and lingering over the each, letting your mind roam free. amazement

awe

bewilderment

curiosity

fascination

marvel

shock

stunner

surprise

wonder

astoundment

Those are all synonyms for Wonderment. We can choose this kind of life or settle for the antonym which is indifference. This love wonder imparted their love story into us all in attendance. We took pictures where she was taking the booty of my baby that had passed to put in her wedding gown pocket to have her close. She was already wearing the bracelet given to me when I had my Daughter, but she wanted to squeeze that lemon that much harder to get all the juice. After the wedding they released white balloons in memory of the Grooms Grandfather who had recently passed, a cousin to the bride, my Daughter and just very recently Warner a sweet week old newborn his Parents best friends to the Bride and Groom where his Mom was a Bridesmaid and his Dad was a Groomsman. It was poetry in motion and I was spellbound. 

 One of their best friends officiated their ceremony and he encouraged all those in attendance to hold the hand of their spouse to renew or rekindle their own magic during the vows. Both sets of Parents gathered at the alter after the unity candle and all of the attendants gathered and prayed for this glorious couple while come to the alter was sung by guitar.  When they announced the Bride and Groom there were shouts of jubilation that both came from deep within and smacked your own Heart. They exited the Chapel while we all cheered, hooted and hollared as the each came down the isle to Earth, Wind and Fire's, September and it was as if that song became live form right then and there as the beginning lyrics go, "Do you remember the 21st night of September?

Love was changing the minds of pretenders

While chasing the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing

In the key that our souls were singing

As we danced in the night

Remember how the stars stole the night away"

And we did just that this evening as we not only Celebrated this Loving couple but we too had awoken our own realization of just what life could have if not right there in front of us, then assuredly it was right around that corner. Most of all, thank you Hannah for loving not only me so immeasurably big; but us all in such a deep way it unlocked the places life had shut. You see, we all are cooler than we think. It just takes those that "see" us to show us sometimes, when we lose our way or forget. May we all harken to this example and love so deep and wide and Beautifully. This is the Beautiful Wonderment of Life. 

xoxo

Turn this up to ten and dance like you have never before, Celebrating. And....write that book. Everyday. Everyday. Everyday.