Stepping into our bigger selves
In a recent class discussing living a full life, my instructor asked us to go into our hearts and see (or hear or feel) what our deepest heart would long to have written on our gravestone. (It wasn't as morbid as it might sound, honest!) Mine went something like, "Loved God and shared that love with all her heart, soul, and being." When each of us had the opportunity to discuss our epitaph – and to feel what our lives would be like if what we'd written had come to fruition, I was filled with incredible joy and the excitement of possibility…like the windows of possibility were being thrown open. Dr. Laird suggested that I not just look at the window, yearning for those possibilities, but rather take a chance and step through those openings. These images, he said, were Divine images, showing me as a new creation – don't hold back…step in to this new creation of someone who is, basically, for me, a "fool for God." I'm reminded of the near-ecstacy I felt reading of Saint Elizabeth who "loved Jesus to distraction." So often, I feel I just want to chuck all my pretenses and just say "yes" to Divine guidance…to be that fool for God. What are my options? I can keep playing safer…looking "good"/normal/mainstream on the outside. I'll stay relatively safe…unfortunately, safe hasn't been all it's cracked up to be, at least not for me. If I want to live this rich, juicy life, time's a'wastin'. Let me be the quirky, joyous, irrepressible creation that makes me feel fabulous!
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Not ready to go "gently in to that good night?" Me neither! We have too much to offer the world to go into hiding! And every day offers new opportunities to come out of hiding and shine our lights.
