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They say to write it all down

Writer's picture: Arum RaeArum Rae

I have been learning what it means to have faith. Faith that there is purpose in everything. Faith that the things that I am calling for are also calling me. Faith that there is something blooming underneath. Without any of us having faith, life would not exist.

 

I am in a very accidental sober January. I woke up one day and lost my taste for wine. Or actually, I woke up with an insatiable desire to be present... for everything. I didn't want any disruptions. I wanted to meet myself and life and God in an undisrupted place for no other reason than to just be there. Well, and for another reason, that I have a mountain of dreams in my heart and mind that I want to achieve and the acute knowing that time waits for noone.

 

Being an independent recording artist, you are forced to gamble with the complete unkown. Success, in every meaning of the word, is completely unpredictable. For some reason the calling to share what is inside of us is both terrifying, freeing and gratifying all at once which keeps us coming back because making music is also like harvesting the honey from life.

 

I always play a game in my mind of who, alive or dead, would I want to have dinner with. Nothing better than a dim lit meal shared with new friends or old and soul moving conversation. I would love to have dinner with C.S. Lewis or Gandhi or, of course, Jesus on the subject of faith. What would they advise?

 

Throughout my "time of clarity", I have heard answers to questions of mine in quiet but undeniable ways. I have been making decisions opposite of what I normally would do and gone in directions of the unknown as apposed to a road I have already been down. For instance, finding myself single has felt as bazaar as I assume waking up on Mars would be. While I have had some lovely dates since, I haven't jumped into another relationship because there's this knowing that although I aim for a big family around a Sunday table, this season is for me to go at life solo and perhaps see just what I am made of. And again I am reminded, having faith takes courage.

 

 

While I embark on this next album and 2025, it feels like I am Indiana Jones throwing gold dust out in front of me to illuminate my path.

 

The good thing is, I am finding proof everywhere. I have faith in the sun. I find reason for faith in my own heartbeat keeping me alive all on its own. Faith in how remarkable man kind can be in all of our inventions, cures and beauty that we create for one another to experience. I have faith that what is burnt down will be rebuilt, sending love to you California.

 

January is the time to rest in faith that Spring is on her way. Also, a reminder to myself and perhaps to you, to believe in your visions and dreams just as easily as you know the sun will come up tomorrow. And to write it all down(!) but do it with faith for that is the water to the seeds we wish to grow.

 

 Love Arum



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rkitchen1
Jan 26

Continue on this wonderful journey of your, Arum!!!

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Beautiful words, inspiring and honest. I pray that you continue to move through your journey with clarity, peace and grace. All is well, no matter what is going on around us.

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