The Nature
of
Sustainable
Joy!
And sometimes the Resilient Nature of Joy
Reminds us that we can truly stand alone
On our own
Withwatchful gaze quiet in Inner Listening of our Truth
Back boned and steady on top of Faith’s sturdy roof
That alone is sometimes where the ALL/ONE needs to position
Our beating hearts into stillness so we can better listen
And truly hear our innate Voice
We are always free to make a choice
Joy calls us in beckoned tones
To follow the Path of the Unknown
To look out beyond human fear
Fall or Fly - trust the movement of the air
For Joy assures you that you are able to withstand
The flight for both will find you upheld in God’s Protective Hand.
- Nikki Williams
“Maybe ,,, just maybe
We are given the shade of gray
Above and below
So that we will remember, so that we can know
Just how bright, beautiful, and bold we are;
And maybe … just maybe
That gray is put there to do us the tremendous favor of saying,
‘You better get out there and be vibrantly and brilliantly bodacious!’
Ha! God is something else! God just keeps talking to us in so many ways!
Show your Red
Hear what I said?!
Thank you, Gray! I hear you!”
(Joy told me I better not forget my manners!)
- Nikki Williams
Yes, Yes, Yes!
Lordy, Yes!
Now that’s Joy!
Joy is saying, “I don’t care how bold and bright the rest of y’all think you are
But I’ma show my little skinnier legs up in the air just like the rest of y’all!
And I may not have a full sproutin’ Afro Leafed Mane of Hair up on my head
But I’m show what I got proudly and it can sway up here to if the wind gets a notion to sway it!
Y’all ain’t God! Y’all ain’t the ones to say what is beautiful and what ain’t!
And just for y’all tryin’ to be so doggone cute, I’ma stand right here on top of y’all heads!
Limbs stretched out pulled Heaven bound, dancin’ the ‘Funky Chicken’ with my little ole thin limbs - I don’t give a fig!
And I ain’t gonna be payin’ y’all no never mind!
And that’s what Joy tole me to tell y’all - though I was thinkin’ the ‘xact same thang any ole way! But Joy do got a way of amplifyin’ thangs …
“Go Skinny Leaves,
Go Skinny Leaves,
Go Skinny Leaves!”
- Nikki Williams
All is well
All is in place
Calm and Peace embrace
Contentment lets out a Soulful sigh
Life is living at its own Ordered Pace
But because it is Life, we know all too well
That nothing can be predicted in the Land of “Never Can Tell”
One moment your understanding of it all is clear as a bell
The next Heaven seems to transform into a seascape of hell
Negative Forces will push up against you in an attempt to move you from where you dwell
Shove your Freedom into a tight prison call
For no reason other than evil hates when you are doing well
But then suddenly, the Forces without rhyme or reason withdraw and retreat
Courage is not standing boldly without fear
Courage is standing bravely present in the face of fear
it is allowing the shape of shadows to silhouette your trembling body
And trusting that your Light is enough to give notice to the darkness
Courage is about constantly
defiantly
defining
Who and Whose you are.
- Nikki Williams