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Suyin 🤍 your comments are so beautiful and generous. It means the world to me. I’m so glad that you enjoyed reading! This feedback uplifts me and I’m so grateful for your support 🥹🩵 I will cherish this forever!

I also started reading Small Bodies of Water based on your recommendation and I am loving it! Thank you so much!

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Feb 4Liked by Jennae Smith

Hi Jennae, it’s such a pleasure to be able to share how your words made me feel. Thank you for the gift of this experience too! ✨✨ And it’s great to hear that you’re enjoying Small Bodies of Water ☺️🩵

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"Faith is remembering that we are nature and we are part of the cosmos. It is trusting in the divine force that moves the universe."

I love this definition of Faith - thank you for sharing your interpretation in such a beautiful form too!

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"Faith is remembering that we are nature and we are part of the cosmos. It is trusting in the divine force that moves the universe."

I love this definition of Faith - thank you for sharing your interpretation in such a beautiful form too!

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Thank you so much for reading this piece, it’s a very special one for me and I feel like I always receive a new comment here when I need reminding of the lessons I learned during the time I was contemplating this topic.

I also love this definition of faith so much 🩵 Thank you for being here and for commenting, it means the world!

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My pleasure!

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Ooooh what a refreshing soulful read! YES we're tiny droplets of love 🧡🧡🧡

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Aw thank you so much Mohika! Thank you for reading this piece, it’s a special one to me. Showering you with love! 🩵

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Jennae, this is so breathtakingly stunning and thought-provoking! You understand and speak the language of water in such a beautiful way. And I feel like your words crystallize in such a moving way, the true meaning of seeing the world in a droplet of water (just like that grain of sand!). It reminded me that this is how we learn to find the path of return to love, of profound "trust in the force that moves the universe" (I haven't read the book by Marianne Williamson yet, but I'm really inspired to read it now because of you).

I admire how you also root in this understanding of love to contemplate that "Surrender isn’t about rejecting ourselves or our moral compass, it’s about connecting to the force inside us that is more powerful than fear" in order to identify the next possible step (however small) we choose to take through paralysis and stagnation, and through this step, taking the act of remembering and defending this love.

Your poem made me tear up too 🥹🥹 - these are such deeply touching words

“please don’t stop your tears

from returning to the ocean

one day i will drink

the sadness that leaks from your heart”

There are so many parts of your writing that really caught my breath, especially this line "maybe the stillness we practice when we sit, when we go inside the internal landscape of ourselves, is to still the waters long enough to see the reflection of our true nature. Maybe surrendering, is really just remembering." - Wow. I want to take that with me in the coming days and sit in stillness with it 🩵

I was also reminded of the book, Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles (https://canongate.co.uk/books/3564-small-bodies-of-water/), which is on my reading list, and which I felt really resonates with a lot of what you've written here.

Thank you so much for sharing this with us! I can't wait to read more of your words 🤍✨✨

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