Hi Everyone,
Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. I was lucky enough to take a trip to New Hampshire with some good friends in the middle of September, and like most things, time just slips away. So here I am, back in the saddle, thinking of new thoughts and ideas.
Yesterday, I had a phone call with a good friend, and she was telling me how she had a flash of insight in the middle of cutting the grass last weekend. It was an interesting conversation, because she told me that she finally realized that she didn't have to be the one to "fix" everything in everyone else's life. This is huge! I say that because unless you are driven by that thought, that expectation of yourself, you can't know what it means to have that realization. At 40 something, she finally realized that God never expected her to take on the responsibility of carrying everyone throughout her life. So in this phone call she said to me, "how do I define myself and my life if I am no longer that person?" Interesting question, for throughout our lives we are redefining who we are over and over. How do you define yourself today? How is that different than five years ago? Ten years? In these re-defining moments in time we move into a new way of thinking, we grow and stretch as the questions become new. The answers well, there is that thought that we know the answers. It is the questions that we don't know how to ask. So as I leave this evening, think about who you are, what are the driving forces in your life now that are different than before? Are they different than before? If they are, how have they changed you? If they aren't what is it that you are failing to see or failing to learn? Maybe there is nothing you have failed to see or learn. Maybe it is just being driven in the same vein because you have not come to the cross roads that will lead you down a differnt path. Maybe, you aren't ready yet.
There is a saying that I really like, it goes something like this:
When the student is ready, the master will appear....Are you ready? Who are your masters or teachers?
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Well, in addition to your musinngs, here are a few of my own. Today is probably one of the most important days in American political history. Yeah, another comment about the elections. Not only do we have the standard Democrats, Republicans and Independants running, but the REAL possibility exists that we may end up with a woman in the White House or an Afican-American in the White House. Now granted, Sarah Palin is not running as the President, but she would be an integral part of our Government. How far have we advanced? And isn't it exciting!
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