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Fine Art Film Print by Lillie Duncan

View some of my most recent film photography
and writings over on Instagram.
@Lillie.Duncan

The essence of my art, the manifestation of my heart... forever walking outside of me.
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[New film scans from @photovisionprints
#fujipro400h ]

I have had a lot of thought lately about words, about parenting, about motherhood, about feminine energy in general. Miguel Ruiz wrote a book called "The Four Agreements" and the first agreement, understandably so, is "Be Impeccable With Your Word."
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I have been drawn to words since I was young. My most meaningful expression is making art out of words. I have been built up and torn down by words. I have seen the power of words change lives and give life. With just His words, there was light...there was creation. One of the greatest joys in this life is getting to participate in creation, not just literally in the sense of procreating and giving birth, but even more so... the unique creation and cultivation of the children we are given.
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We talk about the power of our words a lot in my home. Most of our sit down talks each day surrounds not just the words we say but even how we say them. Are we speaking to build life in another? Are we speaking truth over ourselves? Are we participating with reality, with creation in a way that will lift up each other?
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I am teaching my children self-awareness and others-awareness... words are our starting point every day. And at the end of the day, I give them words of truth to remind them who they are and their purpose in this world. My words will become the silent voice in the back of their mind as they grow, as they change, as they become who they are.
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[My Rosalie and Elias on the sands of the gulf coast, where I grew up, where I fell in love with words and the ocean.]

From the desert to the garden.
Every flower, every word, every story
Pointing to the redemption of all things.
In me. Through me. For me.
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Dry bones, come alive...
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[My girl and I mirroring the wild flowers of Texas.]

God wants us to relieve suffering, pursue justice, facilitate reconciliation, and free the heart to love, but He desires for us to do so in a way that reveals His Character. It is not enough just to do well for others or to do things well. We must do well in our **unique** way in order to reveal the vast creativity of a God who loves to bring change through the most unlikely channels.
-Dan B. Allender
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This weekend we celebrated *so* many miracles. I have never, so clearly, seen God's hand moving and at work like it has been the past two weeks. On Friday, I got my acceptance letter to The Allender Center Cohort (starts in fall) that I have been trying to get in to now for two years. The Allender Center is part of The Seattle School of Psychology and Theology. This Cohort education is rooted in trauma-focused narrative (story) therapy, group therapy, and emboldening leaders to facilitate healing through engaging the core wounding and deep beauty of the heart with courage and compassion.
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I have prayed and pursued this door for so long so that I may be able to couple with yoga therapy and the work I want to do mentoring. In fact, SHE RISES was born after pursuing my own story narrative with The Allender Center last fall. It was there my calling became clear: to lift the voice of others through the power of the story given to them. We all have a story that needs to be told. In the shadows, in the parts we hold back out of fear and shame...it’s there we find redemption at work. It is there we find what each one of us needs more than anything: Hope and Belonging.
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So this is me currently: besides myself excited to learn, be challenged, and team up with such a beautiful establishment whose goal is to facilitate healing and freedom for everyone.
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Image by queen @laurenapelphoto

There is no comparison or competition in nature. The desert flowers bloom where their seeds land. The trees stretch out their limbs bringing forth life with no forethought of another. Life doesn’t shrink back and it also doesn’t try to out do. The sun stretches out over all of the earth.
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All of creation works in harmony. Ebbs and flows. Working as part of a bigger picture, a bigger idea... LOVE.
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I seek the Lord while in nature because I *need* the reminder of what in this life is a trivial pursuit and what in this life really matters. I need the expansion of my own mind and maturity.
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Shannon Alder once wrote ... “Personality begins where comparison leaves off.” The moment we take our eyes and set them on another to gain any inner feeling of worth, betterment, judgement, or compassion we entertain trivial pursuits that will never leave us feeling satisfied in our own being. And even more, we take our eyes off the goodness of our Creator and how He has uniquely made each one of us.
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My hope for you today is simple... Inhale the permission to be you. Exhale comparison, competition, angst, and anxiety.
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Be fully, intimately engaged with this world as you were created to be. Only once you are able to enjoy and love yourself for who you are and who you were created to be, will you then be able to take part in the bigger calling of all of our lives, in the example of creation...the call to love. ⠀⠀
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[ #fujifilm scanned by @photovisionprints ]

I think the lesson is simple: we are to hold on to this life gently, delicately, like the westward light that touches our hands at days end.
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When life passes through our fingers, we turn our gaze to the east, face the darkness, and wait for that sun to rise.
Because here is the truth...the light always rises. With it, a promise of new mercies sealed along the horizon of the earth and the horizons of our hearts.
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Wait expectantly in the shadow of hopes return.
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[Lam. 3:22]
#hp5 film scanned by @photovisionprints

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.
-Henri J.M. Nouwen
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[Side note - Worked hard for this film shot. Almost rolled my Jeep for it... Medium format film. Scanned by @photovisions. Taken somewhere in Colorado.]

Recently I read something that said
“You are worthy because you are human.”
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1. I can not remember where I read it.
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2. It was so powerful for me. So maybe you need to read those words today. Maybe you need to hear that you are worthy just because you are alive and for no other reason. You are worthy of kindness, respect, gentleness, and words just because you exist and for as long as you exist. Your worth is not based off what you do or don’t do, what you can offer or can’t offer. It actually doesn’t decrease or increase, it just is. And so are you.
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Know your worth then show others theirs.

Lillie Duncan

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