Growth and Growing

Growth and Growing is an amazing place to be in. It is a place that I can look back and look forward at the same time. It is a place that tells me that I am OK right where I am. It tells me that this is where I am suppose to be with certainty. Growth at times challenges us to really look in the mirror and see ourselves, past the scars and the external-ness of ourselves. And looking ourselves directly in the eye and seeing our soul. Seeing the true person that all of the make-up, hair and clothing served to mask. Seeing the little girl inside and being able to embrace her and tell her that we are OK and that all that we have endured and struggled through has been for a purpose. And that the struggle has all been about growing and growth and that we can now walk together congruently into our destiny.

Once we have aligned ourselves with our soul and understand who we are meant to be, we become free. We begin to see the journey as a fun-filled experience that is no longer work. But doing what it is we were designed to do. I once had a job that I told myself that I would literally do it for free and I now know why--it was because my soul was free in doing it. I lived to do it and while doing it time stood and everything around me turned dark, I could only see that thing I was doing and it was because I was in the midst of experiencing my passion. That thing that I was designed to do. That thing that made me feel free...

As we grow we realize that doing what we were designed to do is in fact directly correlated with our happiness. It is in those times that we see and experience pure and unadulterated joy. In our heads we see ourselves walking and at times skipping in a field of daisies. Because we feel inside a sense of freedom, that the external world can only imagine. We see people and circumstances in a different light,because our light inside forces us to see the world from the inside out. Once we can see the world through our own paradigm(s)  free from the loud and sometime intrusive cries of the world. Then we have arrived at what Krishnamurti so eloquenty calls, "A free state of mind".

So this week ladies remember that growth and growing serve to move us closer to freedom in ourselves.

Go Forth and Do Amazing Things This Week!

Kind Regards,

Pauline

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Walking On Water

Image
Pauline Respress, M.Ed., We can learn a lot about faith by watching a mere leaf float on water. The leaf calmly floats even though it is surrounded by a vast amount of water. The leaf is not flailing it is accepting where it is and embracing it. This is much how I see faith. I see the spirit as the water and my physical self as the leaf.  My spirit guides me as to where I need to be, but I must trust my spirit to carry me. We become frustrated with our lives when we fight and begin flailing in our spirit. The spirit encamps us, it is our true north, but we must become like the leaf and allow it to guide us. It is a union that we must seek, in order to become one in ourselves. True faith is born out of understanding this union. When we can become silent enough in our heads we can marry the two-- and become stronger in our faith. And then when God leads us to a place, we must activate our faith and dive in--understanding that he will never allow us to sink. We will either floa...
Read more

We Must "Be Love" to "Have Love" ....

Image
This journey is teaching me a lot of things, but the most profound lesson that I have learned is that in order to have love in our lives, we must be the love that we want to see. It is easy to be hate, because hate does not require much work, hate does not require-- practicing forgiveness or understanding or compassion; it merely requires finding reasons to not do the work required to get to more love in our lives. Loving at times --can be messy, it requires letting down all of our guards and diving into unknown places --while abandoning all of our fears and reservations. Loving is an action word, it is the rolling up of our sleeves and allowing ourselves to be vulnerable enough-- to take the punches that sometimes accompanies getting to love. We all come equipped with artificial guards that protect and soothe us--they are the warm blankets that protect us from the world. But sometimes in order to get to more love-we must be willing to lower our guard and share the love...
Read more

Paschal's Wager

Image
Paschal's Wager is a suggestion posed by French philosopher writer and mathematician, Blaise Paschal, that clearly rationalizes (for me) our belief in Christ.  Paschal believed that in deciding on accepting religion we must first view it as a wager, betting on the fact that God exist and if he doesn't we lose nothing. If he doesn't we have lived a life that is guided by the teachings of Jesus Christ and we have lived as though we have faith, we have also lived an enriched life that is based primarily on love. Some may argue that this rationalization is far-fetched and that they cannot place all of their belief in something or someone that they can not see and that the teachings are merely dogma that people use to hide behind. But for me --I'd rather hide behind love than not--I'd rather be guided by principles that enrich my life than not. What is the alternative? living a empty shell of a life that anything goes and that is guided by our own insatia...
Read more