Scatter Joy, Bloom Love

“Small wins little things look for the beauty in everything.”― Donna Ashworth, I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit

“JOY CHOSE YOU Joy does not arrive with a fanfare on a red carpet strewn with the flowers of a perfect life joy sneaks in as you pour a cup of coffee watching the sun hit your favourite tree just right and you usher joy away because you are not ready for her your house is not as it should be for such a distinguished guest but joy, you see cares nothing for your messy home or your bank balance or your waistline joy is supposed to slither through the cracks of your imperfect life that’s how joy works you cannot truly invite her you can only be ready when she appears and hug her with meaning because in this very moment joy chose you.”― Donna Ashworth, Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days

Thoughts of hope
Words of encouragement
Acts of kindness
Not for others or institutions to do
Small but mighty, adding up
Daily devotion
Showing up
No advice, mere presence
In the messy, flawed, imperfection
Joy to be found
Look longer
Offer it first, second, third
Cast light.

“Follow the flawed, the real, the messy. Follow the women who say it like it is, no filter, no glossing, no bull. Follow those people who accept themselves, and you, as you are. And leave the rest to edit their lives to perfection,”― Donna Ashworth, I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit