Allie Gonino Instagram – This song was written as an exercise called #WhatWouldTaylorWrite? as a challenge to myself to write a song that @taylorswift might write 😋 After nearly losing my sanity last election cycle, I moved to Nashville, and was able to recalibrate and refocus on God and healing. Being back in the south naturally led me to be more focused on my relationship with Jesus, in a way that didn’t feel forced down my throat. My life has steadily become more and more peaceful since then, though not without grief, growing pains, challenges, and loneliness. However, what I’ve really come to find in my spiritual walk is this, and something my acting coach often reminds us in class: We focus on what’s important to us. While rights and policies and government are important, they cannot be more important to me than my day to day living. I cannot allow politicians and people who don’t see me to continue robbing me of my peace, my presence, my gifts, and responsibility to use those gifts to create art that will hopefully change the world. This season of life has been all about allowing God to pull me in, and in doing so, I have become far less emotionally destabilized by anything or anyone that doesn’t align. Accepting Grace has allowed me to extend Grace in ways I used to not be capable. I am blessed in my imperfection and enough in it. I am more focused on what is important and less on what I can’t control. I am at peace with slowing down and being more discerning and treating myself and my time with immense value. It’s a practice. We are much more powerful in our full light – scars, trauma, vulnerability and all – than in our hatred, anger, greed, jealousy, and self-righteousness. I encourage you to not let the shit show that is our country and our world to rob you of the experience of your soul. That’s how the war is won.
*Lyrics in Story* | Posted on 29/Jun/2024 04:42:49
