We need to accept that people and our gifts and our purpose, arrive together only when we can open ourselves to the Invitation, and allow ourselves to be guided through an initiation into the unfolding seasonality of how those three things meet and can only meet at this moment, accepting fully that it will change and keep changing.
Encouragement
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Vincent Van Gogh wrote: “However meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth … steps in and does something.”
for every adult that can find the courage to practice self-forgiveness there will be a child that may reach adulthood without the overwhelming burden of generational trauma. Why is Self-Forgiveness so hard? Because it requires self-permission. We need to feel worthy to give ourself the permission to forgive ourselves, otherwise […]
we cannot choose our starting positions, or the tools we have today, but we can choose tomorrow's. To reach, means both to strive towards something beyond ourselves, and our arrival there. Our job is not to explain the handicap we have or the mess we have inherited from our childhoods […]
there are two ways to be made whole: connection is the horizontal integration, and Integrity & Authenticity is the vertical integration. the sad fact of a human life is this: you can have one without the other, you can have either vertical integration without the latter or vice versa,and when […]
every wave we ride becomes a wave we make. Quantum means measured in ‘packets’. Setting and pursuing Intention, exerting will, the living of a Life, is done in packets. We experience these as cycles, seasons, tides, waves, even Incarnations. At the ending of each meaningful cycle or packet, our ticket […]
At least half of waking up is learning and practicing the art of grieving and letting go. Awakening is a threshing. This is a truth that can not be any other way. We are the wheat and just so, the chaff of what must be removed by rough handling is […]
the hardship of the journey is exactly matched to the value of the prize and the greatness of the soul who dares the way. We look away from our wounds. We hope healing will come from outside of ourselves. Our psychological wounds are the places we first became separated from […]
The wolf in you will see you through long nights,the squirrel through long winters. Our life happens in seasons. It is a story we are writing, every day as it happens, and we get to make it a good story, we get to make it a great story. And great […]
I know it’s hard to trust the way. But that is precisely what the way is asking of you. It is because your heart broke, that you believe something went wrong. Our promises have to be taken from us to release us from the smallness they bind us to. Our […]
Hearts break.Hearts mend.Let yours. Hearts break when we try for too long to love around our deepest wounds. Sometimes trying bravely to love around the wounds, is love. And it took great courage and grace to be this way, because the wounds were not trivial. No one told us, we […]
how little, yesterday matters today. There was a day that happened that you called your worst. There were days where you were brought so low, you could not imagine a time when your life would be graced again by sunshine and there was that one time, a moment so dark […]
Some steps need to be taken alone. It is the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be. Mandy Hale aloneness is a gift. On the Necessity of Aloneness we spend all our energy and so much of our attention and […]
The first steps of Growth, for the seed and for the human heart alike, are falling, separation and breaking open. Even the falling of the seed, seems at first random, but of course, it had its causes, far beyond what the little seed can gauge or comprehend, and once the […]