Over The Rainbow ♥

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" When I let go of what I am,

I become what I might be. "

There was once a lonely girl who longed desperately for love. One day while she was walking in the woods she found two starving song birds. She took them home and put them in a small glided cage. She nurtured them with love and the birds grew strong. Every morning they greeted her with a marvellous song. The girl felt great love for the birds. She wanted their singing to last forever.

One day the girl left the door to the cage open. The larger and stronger of the two birds flew from the cage. The girl watched anxiously as he circled high above her. She was so frightened that he would fly away and she would never see him again that as he flew close, she grasped at him wildly. She caught him in her fist. She clutched him tightly within her hand. Her heart gladened at her success in capturing him. Suddenly she felt the bird go limp. She opened her hand stared in horror at the dead bird. Her desperate clutching love had killed him.

She noticed the other bird teteering on the edge of the cage. She could feel his great need for freedom. His need to soar into the clear, blue sky. She lifted him from the cage and tossed him softly into the air. The bird circled once, twice, three times.
The girl watched delighted at the bird's enjoyment. Her heart was no longer concerned with her loss. She wanted the bird to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the sweetest melody she had ever heard.

Do you realise?

The fastest way to lose love is to hold on too tight,

and the best way to keep it is to give it away.

and now, i'm giving mine away :)

I've come to realise that change is never easy. You fight to hold on, you fight to let go. But sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to. Life is full of crazy moments that will drive you up the wall, but behind all that is a story just waiting to put a smile on your face. I can look back at so many things today and laugh, although they were the ones that made me cry earlier. Thank you Jesus for making me the strongest person i never knew i could become. So many things pulled me down, yet You picked me up with a whole new oppurtunity every single time. Thank you for helping me see You in everyone, learning to forgive and forget.

Please, please let me be myself again (:

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

xoxo