The Women's Empowerment Group

 Pauline Respress, BAS, M.Ed., As I walk closer to my destiny, I realize that in this life we must align our words with action. If we can speak it-- we must be able to see it and do it. When our words don't align with our action, then they are like beautiful blooms of a flower that blow gently in the wind--they have no direction, they roam aimlessly to a destination unknown.  And for those that hear your words that are not connected to action, they hear your words, but see someone that is just wasting beautiful words. Our words must match our actions to become fluid, to be realized...Even if we   don 't have the means to match our words, we must try our very best to move in the direction of our words. Our words will carry us-- if we can align them with action. Our tongue has power, it is the collection of all of our thoughts. It flows out of us like a river;  but even a river has boundaries and a direction that it will end up at, it's flow is intricatel...

This journey has taught me many lessons, but the one that stands out the most to me. Is that in order to get to more of ourselves we must allow ourselves to be shaped by our experiences. We must understand that life is a series of occurences that poke and prod us into the fullness of ourselves. But we must allow ourselves to remain open to the experience, because being open is the only way we can get to growth. Once we close ourselves off to experiences then we stifle our ability to grow. Krishnamurti a philosopher, says it most eloquently, " that all things are in continual change, a constant becoming.." We are constantly becoming more of ourselves through our experiences. But the moment we attempt to thwart an inevitable experience we become closed and can potentially miss out on an opportunity to grow.  Sometimes out of fear of the unknown or simply unfounded fears. When we are able to feel the fear and the emotional or sometimes physical pain that a...