I've Been There (IBT) A Testimony Of Hope: BUTTERFLIES AS MESSENGERS

Welcome to the Blog for my book I've Been There...My Testimony of Hope.

This blog is a mixed bag, no holds barred mix of back stories, information, updates, and connection links to I've Been There...A Testimony of Hope. It has links inks.

My hubs David and I are committed to sharing CHANGE MAKING COMMUNICATIONS to inspire life-affirming changes at any age and stage of life. promote the idea that it is never too late to be great and to live our very best lives.

We welcome and appreciate all supporters. Together we are stronger, and that is the message of I've Been There...A Testimony of Hope.

The who, what, when and why of my book

For years prior to writing this book, my hubs David, clients and friends urged me to share the who, what, when and why of where I was and where I am today.

Oddly it was a quote that framed things in a way that made sense to share my healing and spiritual path from the "there to my healthy, happy here. The essence of the quote was, "those who have walked through the fires and became a Phoenix have a moral responsibility to give the lessons back to give other their transformational wings."

The girl in the shadows on the book jacket was me back "there.| " I wrote this book as a testimony of hope and chronicale how my scars were turned into Lodestars that guide my and others I share our Change Making ideas with today. My book is an offering and affirmation that it is not what happens to us that defines who and what we become. Instead, it is how we respond and choose to do about it.

Bright blessings on your own journey,

Raia

Coralie "Raia" Darsey-Malloy

Sunday, March 6, 2011

BUTTERFLIES AS MESSENGERS

I found this poem amongst my mother's possessions shortly after she passed away on April 20th, 2005. It felt like a message from her that she had safely made her transition to the next realm and was flying free with her own wings.

If anyone desires a wish to come true

whisper it to a butterfly.

Butterflies do not make any

sounds and cannot tell--

anyone but Great Spirit.

By making a wish

then releasing it to the butterfly--

on gentle wings

the wish will be carried

to the heavens—then granted.

For butterflies

are the living messengers

of Great Spirit.

This photo was the last one taken of her. Mom's birthday was Christmas Day and David and I had picked her up from the personal care home she was in to take her our for dinner. We put her in front of the angel lights to serve as a reminder to us that her time was near and she would be getting her wings in the not too distant future..and she did.