About The Poet:
I am a person of faith. I had a beautiful experience with God when I was nineteen years old. I have never been the same since. My relationship with God is of utmost importance. I live and breathe my Creators love and life. I love my family with all of my heart. I am so grateful for each one of them. I have grown to love, honor and respect myself as much as anyone. I didn’t have much of a relationship with myself even though I lived and served full-time in a Christian Ministry for twenty years. It was not until I sought Spiritual Direction that I began to understand the importance of really getting to know myself and caring for my own soul and body. We are told by Jesus to love our neighbor as OURSELVES. This truly is a part of the equation. I think it is often left out of our Christian teachings. My Spiritual Directors introduced me to these ideas.
I have a crazy personality, great sense humor, love to act and be involved in theatre whenever I have the opportunity. I love to learn and would love to continue my education further, if it were possible. I love to write and to speak and do it often. I am finding the artist in me and trying it all: drawing, painting, and photography. I love to sing folk/blues music and play percussion. I am especially gifted with harmonies. I also enjoy writing lyrics.
I have become a free thinker. I question everything. I believe that is why God gave me a mind, heart, soul and spirit, so that I can use each of these in a responsible way and figure things out for myself. I will take responsibility for my own human error. God loves that. I give God my will, God gives it back to me. I love my Creator with ALL my heart!!!
I have been protesting the war at monthly demonstrations since before it began. I am on the Board of Appalachian Peace Education Center (APEC) I have done work educating folks about AIDS. I have protested the making of Nuclear Bombs. I am seeking to be educated more about how to help the environment. I want to leave my grandbabies and those to come with a good and beautiful earth.
I am thrilled to belong to Diversity Group. We are seeking to find ways to change the laws for Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Queer folks. WE also meet to give them a hospitable place to dialogue about these issues and their lives and to learn what we can do to fight hate crimes and stand for the truth of their beauty and worth. I am wounded that these friends are looked at and treated the way they are by much of our society.
I believe that our God is a reconciling God, with unconditional love. I believe in being true to my heart, trusting my heart, growing in love, seeking to know this beautiful Spirit that put us here in the first place. I want to be all that I can be and I want to connect to others. I am seeking to live my life out loud as much as I can. I don’t want to wound anyone. But, I want to express my most holy beliefs. I would rather be hated for who I truly am, then loved for who I am not. Being genuine and true are holy and sacred. God knows what I feel and think so why should I pretend for others to be different than I really am. Peace & Love, myrt (Jeanne Leigh)
Inspirations:
Life experiences. Love. Struggle. Pain and Healing. Hope. Despair. Comedies. Tragedies. Spiritual Questions. Spiritual Insights. Art. War. Death. A friend of mine describes Himself as "a cauldron of contradictions." Sounds right to me. My heart, soul and mind call me to write. Writing is necessary, needed. Writing For: 5 Year(s)
Interested In Writing Professionally or Currently Do?: Yes
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