🎶 “Well, I know it wasn’t you who held me down

Heaven knows it wasn’t you who set me free

So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains

And we never even know we have the key.” 🎶

Lyrics from Already Gone

By the Eagles

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We each are always the only ones in charge of our emotions, our thoughts and our responses to what life brings us.

All those?

Are ours alone.

So . . . Yes

No one else

Ever

Holds your key. 🔐

Just you.

That news is a two-sided coin, tho.

Because we can rejoice in the magnificent freedom and power that this thought holds . . .

But we can also be dreadfully frightened to discover that we now can no longer blame anyone else or anything for our own choices.

Whenever we acknowledge we have the “key”

We now own the responsibility.

Yep . . . It’s all about us.

* * * * * *

The door to our personal “birdcage”

Has always been open . . .

We could always fly out whenever we choose. 🦅

And Dorothy?

Always had the power to return home . . .

She just had to walk her yellow-bricked path to eventually “awaken” to see her ruby slippers for what they truly were. 👠 👠

So in each precious moment you are gifted to acknowledge today?

(And you WILL find them!)

Bravely choose

In what small or large way

You will walk 👠

Or fly 🦅

Or unlock yourself 🔑

Because the way to do it?

Your “power”?

Has always been there

All along.

* * * * * *

Pause.

Look.

Expect.

And

See

Everything!

Blessings to you all, Dear Readers ~