Gazing in the Mirror

October 20 - A Zeal for Living

Every great dream begins with
a dreamer. Always remember,
you have within you the strength,
the patience, and the passion to
reach for the stars to change
the world.
~ Harriet Tubman

... the doorway of opportunity is
never closed.... receptive to the
Divine Ideas. It is never too late...
to manifest opportunity; it is never
withheld ...for a single moment;
there is no sense of limited or
restricted opportunity.
~ Ernest Holmes

There is a woman I've been corresponding with via email. Her life has been up-ended for the last few years and I've been walking alongside her as new enthusiasms come forward for her, as some expectancies turn to disappointment and a new plan takes shape for the next logical step. We have grown closer to one another as the weeks and months have passed by. Our communications have mostly been focused on her path but recently she said to me "curious minds want to know" meaning that she was ready for a more balanced sharing between us and that she wanted to know more about my own daily life.

As I attempted to share a bit, I described it as rather routine and boring but that isn't entirely true, my life is currently comfortably settled and contented. So I was reflecting on this and wondering – is it necessary to shake things up ? – in order to break loose from habits and routines. When all has been turned upside down and we have to take an entirely new approach in our path going forward we often find a more passionate zest for living. Is there a middle ground from which we can take advantage of that proactive stance towards determining what we wish to unfold for us without totally upsetting the apple cart ? Recognizing and then realizing our yearnings can be such a path.

I think that this is the reason that we have New Year's Resolutions and set goals. These are methods of eliciting a passion for living and experiencing the excitement of success as we accomplish something that we intentionally set out to do. Surprises are fine and well and they can certainly spice things up. One can also meet Life full on without any effort to navigate that stream of unfolding activity and choose instead to simply enjoy the adventure of discovering what The Universe brings to us and how we react or respond to those circumstances and situations. Sometimes we are forced into such a moment by moment perspective when an unexpected diagnosis or situation upends our world producing for us a whole new set of circumstances to cope with and move through.

So on occasion we may discover that we have become a bit stale and bored with what our lives have become. We lack an interest in living and simply allow time to move us through each day to the end of each day and all is a bit gray and dreary even if it isn't really awful or horrid. It may be that we are coming out of a bit of intense overwhelm and we don't really mind the slower pace. If that is the case we can gently savor what is. But if we have been "stuck" in a same old, same old for so long that we aren't actually savoring it, how can we re-energize ourselves out of it ? and into something new.

One way is to look back upon our youth – not from a perspective of grieving that it has passed away or in seeing it as some kind of gloriously perfect existence in which all our needs were provided for and we had no hard decisions to make. I am not referring to that kind of retrospective. I believe that just as the acorn is the conceptual seed for a mature Oak tree, within our youth are hints at our natural abilities and interests which are meant to be the seeds for expressing the unique personality and capabilities that we each bring into this Life and these are meant for us to use in order to gift Life itself with the best that is in us in return.

So how do we reignite a zeal for living ? We can search our memories for what it was that excited us as children, that which we believed "possible" for us to achieve, experience or express. Did we wish to be a doctor and heal other people ? It might be "too late" in life to go to medical school and through an internship but being a presence of healing energy knows no age limits and the giving of oneself in an effort to support, encourage and be a channel of guidance to other people can provide an ongoing source of new and interesting situations to keep Life exciting, interesting and satisfying. What is it that you were interested in as a child and how can that interest be revived in new ways to spice up a Life that has grown boring ?

~ perspective

I make the choice to live mylife out loud by identifyingwhat my deepest desires ofexpression are asking for.I am not afraid to show theworld what it is that I am for.I have all the confidence andcourage that I need to go forthidentifying my yearnings andknowing that if I desire theseI can make them so.I have the guts to be who I trulyam deep inside and I am notafraid to show this self to theworld around me.I do not let doubts or fears getin my way but I identify theseand then I see if perhaps theyare merely illusions that areholding me back from having azest for Life itself. 

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