Celebrate Your Resilience: Small Wins and Inner Strength

We all have things that we have made it through, more than what you don’t let anyone know. They may not be monumental, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t celebrate the small wins nevertheless. Celebrate you, for the courage to spread your wings and rise like an eagle. We so often pour out the best of ourselves, forgetting we need to spiritually fill back up our own cup. The scars that cut deep don’t define; they help to refine your resilience. If you’re still finding your way, and no one is there to cheer you on? Clap for yourself, for all the times you held on: faith made that small victory possible. Even though you can’t see what tomorrow will bring, celebrate the fact that through every storm your heart faces, your inner strength has never wavered. And, even though it’s hard sometimes, to find a moment within the business of the day to just exhale. Every day, take a moment to celebrate you, for giving your own heart the love it irrevocably needs to be.

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Love’s Heartfelt Balance: Power and Strength

Friends, beloved, beautiful hearts, lend me your ears. This is my heart has come to know. In order for love to have the ability to lean in, one’s heart must first be willing to concede love’s power. True love isn’t a perfect provision of wants and needs; it’s an endless balance of its power and strength. The power love gives to become, the strength one’s heart needs for it to always be. Knowing how to emanate the strength of its power, learning to intuitively tap into the source of its essence. Some days, the mind becomes profoundly overwhelmed, but when the heart is opened, the power of love becomes that proverbial switch, every heart needs exposed.

  • We have the power through love to act, but love with misguided strength yields no power to change any heart or mind?
  • We have the power to pull down, but does the love you wield have strength to build up?
  • We have the power to speak our mind, but it takes an even greater courage. To let your love’s quiet strength be, more convincingly powerful than words.
  • We have the power to keep silent, but does your heart have the strength to speak up when truth needs to speak its peace?
  • The power of positive thinking is strength to compel, but does not have the power to positively propel until the heart is convinced it has the indwelling strength to enact.
  • Words have absolute power, but wisdom gains an unbelievable amount of compelling strength; the heart knowing the most powerful moments reveals itself through actions. Jun 12, 2026

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June’s Floral Beauty: Picturesque Moments

The Arrangement:

Purple Reign
Orchid and its Red Leafed neighbour
Little Red’s Potted Basket
Dahlia and Gerbera’s Hue
Pretty in Pink

The Poem:

When beauty catches the glimpse of the eye, the heart’s lens stops to capture the breadth of its sublime nature. It doesn’t need to sway, for the nuance of its essence to beautifully captivate. Springtime hue, gives the heart its cue, that picturesque moments must get its due. 

*** A collection of floral arrangements captured during my day over the past few weeks. These particular ones are on display on the concierge desk in the downtown office buildings, where I traverse in and out of during the day. Along with a poetic piece to capture the nuances of its sublime. I’ve been taking a lot of pictures over the years, and even though I’ve shared some, must just sit in my phone’s photo gallery. I think it’s time to give them their due, so I will be sharing more of them each month. ***

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Love’s Sweet Sublime: Taste and See

WCR Original: Water Lily’s Hue

Have your encounter with love ever left your heart perplexed? Bitter-sweet moments indicative of love’s fragrance, but yet the heart’s palate sensing within an artificial ingredient. Unsavory love may gratify the moment, but could never satisfy forever’s longing. Deep love isn’t what the peripheral sees, but what deeply the heart knows. Tasteless love leaves the heart yearning, leaves the mind pondering love’s sweetness, the intuitive nature of its amazing wonder. Love is the spice of life, a pitch of its salt makes love’s organic aroma permeate. There’s no substitute for its sublime, purity of its breadth transcends time. Beauty of its simplicity, the ornate depth of its authenticity. Kindness an accent, intimacy its intent. Love’s irrevocable essence, oh every heart and soul Taste and See.

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Hummingbird’s Melody: Nature’s Lyrical Symphony

Life’s beautiful melody, its simplicity captured in the breadth of its lyrical sway, essence of hummingbird’s way. Nature’s good vibration, the clarity within its sweet sensation, its angelic song throughout nations. The rhythm, the rhyme, its chorus resounding to the end of time, hummingbird’s chime. Life in living color, love’s subtle yet vivacious brilliance, distinguished like that of a vibrant flower. Love, hum your breathless lullaby, don’t think it wrong; tug heartstrings strong. Your melodious twang permeating sweetly, iridescent vibes resonating deeply. Sun-flowered hue, pollination’s cue, extract of life’s lavished due. Melody of hummingbird’s acoustic bliss, love’s sweet symphonic kiss.

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Love’s Picturesque Beauty | Its Irrevocable Breadth 

Photographed & Textured by Warren Richards

The most beautiful love won’t just take your breath; its texture paints the most breathtaking portrait. Its deep, rich colour leaves your heart pondering the beauty of its sublime. A mere glimpse of its breadth holds your gaze so profoundly, your soul utterly lost in the depth of its wonder. When your very breath becomes the truth of its exhale, it’s your heart captivated deeply; you willingly then surrender to it your soul. Just because, your heart and soul would never think to make love feel irrevocably unappreciated. 

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A Love Story | No, Never 

My beloved, won’t you accept every sublime ounce of my deep devotion, irrevocably vowed completely.

Love, I do, wholeheartedly I do. Yet absolutely I won’t… be satisfied until you answer my heart this, is love’s bliss of the sweetest kiss? Would you ever leave, ever leave my heart wanting? No. Love, your word rings true, but are you sure you wouldn’t abandon my trust; cast my worth by the waste side, thinking my heart’s a waste of time? Never. Surely, there wouldn’t be an unthinkable moment, you stopped being my everything? NO. You say so, but would my heart and soul know so? What if my heart felt a bit hardened, would you still be as soft, a gentle place to rest my hopes and my dreams? Love, would you ever stop being the most tender part of my soul?

NO, my beloved. Of my breadth your heart does swell, in thee my passion does dwell. Even if you questioned me for a lifetime, the answer would still be the same: evident lifestyle. No game, every day the same portrayed frame. A day would feel a thousand years, a thousand years but just a day. No, I will never leave you, would never abandon you, ever deny your heart all that I am. Love is forever, open up your heart and see, how intimately free; that of my heartfelt jubilee.

LOVE, your word grips me deeply, resonates in my soul profoundly. I will hide all you are deep, guard what my love will become wholehearted. I will seek for no imitation, you don’t offer me any limitation. If I have you on this journey, I have all my heart needs. I can finally see, nobody loves me like thee. Best part of me my heartstrings tether, make me better, complete me. One unequivocally, my Love unconditionally!

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Poetic Resilience | Depths Within a Soul

Designed by Warren Richards

We’ve all felt stuck, uncertain, afraid to take that next step toward hopes and dreams. Many of us go through life’s motions, trying to poetically navigate every emotion. Sometimes, it feels like we’re perpetually trying to just keep our heads above water. Well, don’t fear the water. Deep places are where we find our truest strength. It doesn’t matter if tears fall, or silent river we have to sail alone, through the storms that utterly drench our soul. Dive into the deep—the deeper essence of your being; the depth that emboldens faith, to the reason of your existence. We all face personal issues, but don’t reach for a tissue; a renewed perspective conquers fear of the unknown. The heart of a warrior, the struggles we face build strength, character; even if it doesn’t feel like it. We’ve all at some point been there. The question becomes, how resolute is your resilience to know; the battle isn’t over until you reach your destiny?

*** If you’ve been enjoying the inspirational content that I have been sharing here on WordPress, and would like to see them come alive in spoken word video form. Join me on YouTube@myheart68, you can simply google @myheart68. Where you can subscribe and be blessed, encouraged, and be inspired there as well. ***

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