In order to be Hands Free, you must first let go. The story behind the hands\/heart photo you see on my blog beautifully illustrates the extraordinary results of letting go of perfection and control.<\/p>\n
Here is the story of how that photo came to be…<\/p>\n
-Those are my hands forming the misshapen heart. Unlike the way I have lived most of my life, I did not prepare a detailed plan about how I was going to pose my hands for this photo. But as you might have guessed, my hands were supposed to resemble a perfectly shaped heart.<\/p>\n
Before I became Hands Free, I would have had to re-do this photo until the heart was perfectly formed.\u00a0 But seeing it through my new Hands Free perspective, this misshapen heart demonstrates the true meaning of Hands Free. Letting go of perfection gives you the ability grasp, experience, see, and feel what really matters in life like joy, connection, grace, forgiveness, and personal growth. And the end result? Why of course, it is love; loving yourself and the people around you without restraint.<\/p>\n
-Those are my daughters\u2019 hands covering my own. The girls were tired at the time and ready to go home. There were more than a few \u201cWhy do we have to do this?\u201d questions and \u201cAre we done now?\u201d moans. But two short months later, my seven-year-old-asks, \u201cCan we read your blog, today, Mama?\u201d And the four-year-old regularly makes a heart shape with her hands when we drive in the car. I especially treasure the day she lifted her heart shaped little hands and called out, \u201cMy hands can make something beautiful, Mama!\u201d Oh yes, sweet girl, oh yes, they can. \u00a0If my daughter\u2019s revelation is the only thing comes from this Hands Free journey, I will be fulfilled.<\/p>\n
-The photo was taken by my husband, Scott\u2026not by a professional photographer. My husband knows nothing about perspective, backlighting, diffraction, or contrast, and neither do I (hence the reason I just Googled \u201cbasic photography terms\u201d). But the way the sunlight illuminates the clean lines of our hands in contrast to the tattered brown bark of the tree, I would have thought my husband has been taking photography classes on the sly.<\/p>\n
-The idea for my title, Hands Free, was discovered within a pile of over fifty sheets of paper filled with jagged manuscript written by a woman who dreams best when she processes life while running on a treadmill.<\/p>\n
I had written these words for some reason off to the side of a detailed story idea, but months later, I couldn\u2019t quite remember why. On the day I searched for a title, the words seemed to be written in glowing letters just waiting for me to find them.\u00a0 In that moment, Hands Free Mama came to life\u2026in so many ways.<\/p>\n
-The title and tag line merged with my image through the talents of a man I have never met. Although his computer skills are completely mind boggling, I have learned that his skills as a father and as a husband are even more astonishing. Simply as an act of kindness, this man graciously used his own valuable time and skill to create this beautiful logo for me. I speak of angels on this journey. He is mine.<\/p>\n
So now you have the unplanned, yet incredible, story behind the creation of my Hands Free Mama logo. \u00a0And there is a term for what happened here.<\/p>\n
It is what I call\u00a0perfect imperfection.<\/em><\/p>\n The reason the elements of my logo fit together so beautifully, so complementary is because they were not planned.\u00a0 They were not thought out in a twenty-step flow chart or Venn diagram the way I have lived my life for far too long.<\/p>\n For once in my life, I allowed something to develop on its own.<\/strong><\/p>\n For once in my life, I surrendered control.<\/strong><\/p>\n For once in my life, I simply let go.<\/strong><\/p>\n I went Hands Free. And the fact that it turned out so extraordinarily confirms that life should be lived this way.<\/p>\n Just imagine if you let all areas of life just BE instead of trying to create the end result that you want or that you imagine.<\/p>\n You will often hear me say that I am simply the messenger on this Hands Free journey. And it is by the grace of God that I have a message to give.<\/p>\n Today, and for all the days to follow, my message is this:\u00a0perfect imperfection\u00a0is a beautiful sight to behold. In fact, it can change the way you look at life\u2026.if you simply let it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In order to be Hands Free, you must first let go. The story behind the hands\/heart photo you see on my blog beautifully illustrates the extraordinary results of letting go of perfection and control. Here is the story of how that photo came to be… -Those are my hands forming the misshapen heart. Unlike the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1fUJF-8k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsfreemama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}