COURAGE MONTH: DAY 31: “Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” ― Erica Jong
My fervent hope is that I will be led to complete some of the things that have been striving to be born in my life one day in the near future. The things I have been working on creating for the last couple of years are feeling the call to completion. I have been led to some amazing and crazy places in just this last few weeks, so am excited to see what the opening looks like on the other side of some deep and lovely healing I am being invited to embrace.
What I know is that this opens space for those things that need to move through me and out into the world. And sometimes I am fully aware that things are transforming in my life in big ways without knowing what exactly that is going to look like. Now is one of those times.
How cool to feel (finally!) comfortable with the process before that time and the process of right now, as it is opening up. Today I feel utterly supported in stepping out into this new time and space… yay! It has not always been like that, so this is truly a blessed moment in my life…as is this one, and this one, and this one!
I am grateful for the practice I have of learning to live in my moments. I forget sometimes how uncomfortable I can be in this world when I don’t have these amazing tools of healing and loving and for being alive in this time and in this place.
I met an incredible woman yesterday, one who has lived a very successful and productive life, filled with family and career and friends, along with a lot of financial success as well. She was the singularly most unhappy person I have met in a long time! She saw only the losses of her recent years and had nothing nice or good or happy in her life. It broke my heart! I am so grateful for these things that teach me how to live in much greater peace with a life reduced to much less than she had in the physical world.
Spiritual practice is not about feeling better about my life when I compare things with another person, but others do provide examples to me all the time of what I do NOT want to bring into my experience! It is astonishing how gifted we are when we open the gifts and receive them and love them and USE them! I have taught Gratitude practices for 30 years and seen tremendous transformations of lives and spirits and attitudes about both.
But it isn’t what you KNOW around here that keeps you happy, joyous, and free…it is what you DO! There is so much to know and so little to DO. But the fight we put up sometimes to keep what we have is incredible…especially when all we have is a pile of crap that we have created and it is causing us a lot of pain…I am astonished! Today I hope I take the gifts of talent that I was given and apply them to the creative spirit that gave me life and love and this amazing world to run around in. I pray for the courage to step out of my comfort zone to embrace any and all challenges that come in creative ways, using those skills I possess to help heal something broken, to life something up closer to its Source or Power, and to manifest that gratitude in the world around me! Let’s go!
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