Birthday Wish

by Ashley Jataun Moore Ellis

For my 40th

I'd love to…

My soul needs to…

Get it's Andre 3000, walking-for-miles-playing-my-flute on.

Free.

I need to get my “Eat-Pray-Love” on.

Finding myself again.

Exhaling.

Crying.

Letting it all out.

Laughing.

Breathing.

Dancing.

Hair hanging down.

Free.

Deeply inhaling and exhaling.

Being.

Simply being.

Toes in the sand,

Grounded.

Enough.

Letting healing in its fullness heal me.

Letting God with all His goodness

Fill me.

That I may move forward

Operating out of His overflow

An Overflow of “For-A-Time-Such-As-This” type of works,

Art,

Creativity,

Being.

I close this post with a memory documented on Instagram.

The picture below is from 2017. I was working on my own creative aspirations with a friend at a local coffee shop, and who did we happen to meet?!