- May 11, 2018
There is nothing wrong with you.
Let’s start there, because the world will try to convince you otherwise before you’ve finished your morning breath.
Wherever you are in your life, in your body, in your becoming—you are perfect. Not finished. Not polished. Perfect in the way a seed is perfect before it breaks open. Perfect in the way the tide beating heart of the earth knows when to return without asking permission.
We are living inside moving worlds now. Interconnecting, overlapping, augmenting, extrapolating.
Nothing is fixed, and that is not a failure of structure, it is an invitation. We are in an alchemical shift of consciousness.
You cannot solve this moment with yesterday’s mind.
So release anything that does not bring you peace. Not later. Not ceremonially. Now.
We have been trained to ask Why this? and How did that happen? As if understanding alone could save us. But there comes a point when inquiry becomes a looping pattern. When the mind spins and the heart waits patiently for us to arrive.
This is that point.
Let the past complete itself.Allow what was to die with dignity.Step into the unknown without demanding a map.
The void beyond fear is not empty. It is full of love. Keep on going.
This is the 21st Century, and it is not asking us to be faster or smarter or louder. It is asking us to be truer. We are in a revolution of the heart—quiet, unstoppable, and deeply human.
Today, be someone who remembers: we are all part of the same human heart.
If you don’t know what to do next, try this: Ask, What Would Love Do?
Then, do that.
Even if it feels small.
Especially if it feels unfamiliar.
Try to refrain from rehearsing despair. The world has had enough of our dismal predictions and inherited laments. They belong to timelines that are already collapsing under their own weight.
Release them.
The miracle is any moment you allow the present to be unhinged from the past. In that space, the future is no longer a repetition—it becomes a possibility. A new trajectory opens. Your heart learns a different way to move.
Every moment you lay down your defenses. Every moment you choose love over fear. Every moment you remember who you are. The world transforms for peace.
At one point, people believed the world was flat. Some still do—and remain stuck in the limited reality that belief creates. So let us entertain a playful, radical idea:
What if everything you know is wrong?
What if your belief system is overdue for composting?
(Belief System. Bull Shiiiite. Use as needed.)
The lies are in your beliefs.
Say a tiny prayer. No performance. No certainty required. Be grateful. Say your prayer. Listen in.
Allow me to be a light for peace and never ending joy to myself and those I meet.
Allow yourself to be surprised by what you are called to do next.
Allow me to be a light for peace and never-ending joy—to myself and to those I meet.
Have fun.
Love, Mel
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Melanie Lutz is a writer and love activist.
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