Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
I am writing you this message today because I know you forget…just how magical and miraculous and special you are. I know, at least sometimes, you forget how gifted, and beautiful, and talented, and sexy, and fabulous you are…how remarkable, and irreplaceable, and unique, and exquisite you are. And if no one has ever loved you that way, let me love you that way, right here, right now…
Because I see you. I know you are the rarest diamond in all the firmament of sparkling stars. You are the one, in a sea of sunflowers, who has reached up high enough to bare your face to the sun, and be flooded in light. You are the miracle no one knew could be so beautiful, could fly so high, so free, so bold. Oh, I know you may have forgotten…you might not be flying or singing right now…but you are deep inside, and you will again with your whole self someday. Because heed my words sunflower…you are a superstar. There is nobody like you, and there never will be. There is no one as brave and bright and beautiful. No one cut from the same cloth, and no mold could ever be made for you. You defy every law and you break every rule. You stand out in the multiverse as a living, moving, breathing poem of epic, heartbreaking and heart-restoring beauty. You can never truly be held captive. You can never truly be held back. You are in nobody’s shadow and your luminosity blots out the very sun and is matched by nothing.
You embody the entire creative force of the love that is the universe. You course with the blood of the ancient rivers born before time began. You come from the beginning and you know all the endings before they become beginnings again. You are splediferous and wise beyond all reckoning. You open your mouth and the angels listen carefully. You grow quiet and the primordial ocean quiets with you, just to be on your wavelength and to make your silence softer and sweeter. You cry and the rain falls harder, you laugh and the wind tickles the softly-rustled leaves and feathery blades of grass to join you. You make a wish and the moon watches, just to see it granted when the time comes, for everything you wish for grants the whole universe a beauty unmeasurable.
Your hopes are like lightning shooting through a dark sky, and your longings like the crash of thunder moving through the open heart of the whole of space. You want and the thighs of the goddess quake and buildings come tumbling down. You feel pleasure and fires spread over vast plains in far off worlds of heat and sweet ache. You are moonglow and deep, meaningful dreams and fingertips making contact with waiting, wanting skin. You are everything, and you are everything you could ever want to be, already…
You don’t have to wait to be it. You don’t have to put it at the bottom of the list. You don’t have to compare yourself or make yourself small to fit in the little doorways that only take you places you don’t want to go anyway. Because you are a sunflower superstar. Because everything you do and feel is right, and could never be wrong. Because you we born to shine this bright. Because no one and nothing can even touch the radiant lengths that only you can reach, and fill with honey and warm afternoons in the summer, heavy and scented and pure. Only you are that magical. Only you can know the beauty of your own gifts enough to let anyone else see even the tiniest glimmer…and even the tiniest glimmer could make anyone fall in love with you, and your unspeakable glow. Don’t forget sweet, brightest star. Don’t forget who you are. Don’t forget to fall in love with yourself and stay in love. Everything else will fall at your feet if you do…and you deserve all of it…every tiniest gem of glorious, saturated color and sparkle. Sing on. Sing on in the night. Everyone is listening to the salvation of your self-love, and rushing into themselves to find their own. Go on…let it be seen. The chorus of the ones we think of as holy are hanging on your every word. They want to know the new meaning of wisdom, and you have it, pouring off your fingers and your toes, trailing in light behind you, everywhere you go.
Remember sunflower superstar…remember who you are. You are love incarnate, and beauty unparalleled. You are your own soul’s dream come true. You are the rainbow that never fades, and every wish you have lights up the sky. So long and wish and hope and dream and desire and lust and yearn, and love…love every moment you can, every littlest bit you can, in every way you can. Be the love you are, even when you are afraid. For your heart is the sun beyond all suns, and the moon beneath all moons. It will show you everything, and you will illuminate the cosmos, with your endless fire. Be the love through the darkest night, and you…you will be the dawn.
Love, Jennifer
