The Three Things

Okay, so let's get back to those three things, shall we?

  So I started thinking as I left his office, about inspiration. These three things were supposed to be like my prime directives ( yes that's right I am a closet trekky). They were not to be burden statements and in fact they were really supposed to be statements that set me free. It took me close to another three weeks to come up with my three things.

  In thinking about your own, here's something that may help.  Now later on in some of the coaching I did with a very special mentor,  I learned how to sort out whether I had hit the mark or not. In a totally untelated exercise, she told me to write something down. Now, read it outloud to myself.  If I had trouble reading it without getting really emotional, then I had hit the mark. That meant I had brought something out from my heart. If I could read it without any emotion coming up, it was just mind speaking. Mind is not nearly as powerful as heart.
  
   So as you are trying your own statements out, read them outloud to yourself. If you get a lump in your throat, or you feel tears brimming at your eyes, you are probably right on track. I tried to think of how I get through tough things in my life and these three things suddenly became very clear. They were essentially unearthed. Truisms that were there, as though I was an archeologist sweeping away dirt to uncover something precious that had always been part of me. I had just never seen the whole of it.

** The first of mine, is that I love life. All of it. In my heart there is no good or bad, only lessons. Even the things that people do that hurt me, are only opportunities to understand myself and the world in a deeper more intimate way. I embrace life like a passionate lover and I look forward to every moment. I don't fear what is coming because I believe that every experience is a precious gift.

**The second is that my life is about courage. I am not afraid to do what I need to do, or stand up and be heard above the crowd. I am not afraid to be different.                                                                              

** The third, is that I am never alone. I have felt since I was a child that no matter what there is always a presence with me. Call it God, the divine or whatever has meaning for you, I know I am as connected to the sky, as I am to the ground. There is a shaft of light that connects us to the heavens, passes through us and into the earth. that connects us to each other and all of creation. The core of that light for me is my faith. If all else was taken from me, I could live on that alone.

 Somehow unearthing these things at such an early point in my life has allowed me to go forward with less fear of the unknown. How you might ask? Well, the older I get, the more pattern I see in life and in the world around me. Fewer coincidences. I truly believe we are exactly where we are supposed to be learning exactly what we are supposed to learn. It is easier to believe in times of joy than in times of hardship, but I truly believe it even then.

  These things have reinforced the core of me, the center of who I am.  I carry them gently in my heart and in the dark times that I have had to face, I cling to them like a life raft. Thank you Patrick for helping me find my own treasure, for surely the gifts you have helped me find are beyond value.

 In love and light,
Kathryn