The All i Can Be gift collection is a poem-inspired celebratory reminder of the pure potential young ones bring to the world.

The poem "I'm Here!" (also published under "Soul Cry"), delivers mindful recognition of the fact that potential we are born and potential we remain - making each and every one of us ...

"I'm Here!"

I've arrived, and i'm just what the world needs.

Please, will you help me be all i can be?

In truth, i'm really a big bundle of Love, so i will without a doubt make some noise, as i squeeze into this little body of mine. While i'm fitting in, please nourish, nurture and protect me, and in response, nature will naturally (and automatically) create the best me for the world. The best me i can be already exists within the world of my tiny cells. I'm here! Ready and willing: waiting to be uncovered, discovered and nurtured into being. Please, will you help me be all i can be?

Wow!

I've got this body that knows how to heal itself; it comes complete with Trojan armies for fending off outside invaders. But! You must feed my armies fighting food. Gosh! Every tiny cell has its very own lifetime, and when it ends, a new cell is born out of my stored 'A, B, C's' .....When my nutrient alphabet runs low, in my mind, health and emotions it will eventually show - so feed me, feed me good!

I'm here. I've arrived.

And I'm ready to absorb (and uniquely reflect) the outside world. My mind is open and free: my heart soft with the strength of compassion. Show me what you are capable of, and i will be it too. Prepare me with life knowledge and experience, and i will be the cause of many positive effects. But, if i should feel less than prepared, my young mind will shelter find. And if i am hurt, my heart will become less soft, and i will be less than i can be.

Excite and inspire me!

Love and protect me. Nurture my awareness in this world of cause and effect, and encourage me to reflect. I am impressionable for many years, so please expose me to respect and self-respect, and demonstrate the art of rising from fall.

Please give me your attention: it will not be wasted. The life force you offer is the power that compels my nutrient alphabet to life. Without it, my cells will eventually shrivel and die. Receiving your attention confirms and affirms that i am here, and worthy. Offer me lots in the early years, or else i may spend much of my life's-time wondering who i am, all the while subconsciously attracting, avoiding or craving, the attention and approval of others.

Hey!

We have the best toys in the universe. We have a mind to imagine anything - and question everything. And a brain-body with which to create a world in which we wish to live. We have emotions to physically experience the sensation of meaning - and the free will to apply it. Come on! Teach me how to use, protect and develop these. They hold my potential. So introduce me to them first - and let me be all that i can be.

So,

prepare me and protect me, and pay to me your attention, and i will naturally and increasingly break free from the limitations of being primarily self-aware. Do this in the prepuberty years, and the psychological shift puberty brings, will be easier on all concerned. i promise!

1, 2, 3 wake-up.

You're here!

And, we are - just what the world needs.

Written by: Rena Ainslie Sheldan.

Inspired by the Children in Need appeal, 2007.

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