Ravolution
Quill Wordsmith
wordsmith@excapethematrix.com
If I can keep it as real as possible for a second . . . it wasn’t easy trying to think of what my New Year’s Ravolution would be. I could easily come up with a list of things that I’d like to do to better myself. However, what would be more realistic is me going back one year and simply reviving my Ravolutions from 2007. From walking in my masculinity, drinking more water, working out, praying more, getting into my devotional time to better my personal relationship with God - I mean there’s so many things that I’m still trying to do on a daily basis. When I wrote those Ravolutions last year, I made it a point not to write them with the idea in mind that it was going to be a one-time thing, but a life changing thing…
When I reflect back over my life in the year of 2007 - I must say I’ve lost a whole lot of things that I valued. Yet I’ve gained a whole lot of people from past lifetimes and who were already very active in my life who have changed my outlook on many things. I’ve come in touch with so many people who have, with their individual personalities, left their fingerprints indented on the fleshy part of my heart ‘til my soul felt it. I’ve wept over friendships because of how much I value them, I’ve laughed at the ability to simply live because I know that life is entirely too short to be depressed. Yet I worry…
It’s time for me to tap into this potential. I don’t know what this potential possesses but there are so many of the people around me who speak prophetically to me about this potential. Since I was in junior high it’s been, “he has so much potential.” And even now, “you have so much potential – why are you stopping yourself?” 2008 strolls in and it’s not going to be a huge explosion. No high hopes or boasted expectations for 2008. I’m going to let it come in and I’m going to acquaint myself with it. And if I can keep it as real as possible, I’m going to sit it down and have a talk with it. I’m sure I can’t control and drive in a certain direction if God is already placing me in a current that’s flowing somewhere else - but 2008 needs to know.
"It’s time for me to tap into this potential."
I’ve been through some serious shit in 2007. 2008 needs to know. I’ve been through some ups and some downs and situations where swallowing my pride was more painful than going without and settling with loss. 2007 had me set goals and 2007 made it so that it snatched those very aspirations out of my reach. But 2008, I have to sit it down and explain that I haven’t stopped reaching. Whether it’s for God, the stars, or the dust beyond Pluto where street musicians lack funds, I haven’t stopped reaching. I’m still going to watch what I eat. Watch my health like I had to answer to general surgeons in my 8th trimester.
2008 needs to understand that 2007 was my year of completion of reacting to things. Things that I see, things that I hear, things that I feel, things that I want, to taste to smell to experience…yeah, it’s the completion of all that. And 2008 is the year that all the things that I completed or have started to complete - will now be perfected. I am going to be one of the most magnificent imperfections that God has ever tweaked. 2008, do you understand? I may have things that I want to do to improve who Quill Wordsmith is, but more importantly, I have goals that assist in manifesting those desires.
"…sh*t just got to start happening."
For some reason I love using the words “manifest” and “fruition.” It makes me feel like talking will cease . . . and sh*t just got to start happening.
Talking is for mockingbirds.
But 2008 and me gotta go over some things.
While I dust off my 2007 Ravolutions and pour myself some ice water while lifting 4lb dumbbells.