What if?
How many times have we asked that question? What if I hadn’t entered into marriage at 18 years old? What if I had taken that job offer ten years ago? What if I hadn’t had children so young?
These questions have to do with choices we made that impacted the course of our lives. These are powerful questions to consider, not because we can turn back the hands of time, but because we hold the same power today, at this very moment to make choices that drive our life’s course. In fact, I assert that our thoughts and actions hold even more power today because we are more aware--we have witnessed and experienced the results, the true power, of the choices we make. It is a very human, but very limiting, temptation to want to dwell on the question, “what if…?” The truth is, that question is unanswerable and irrelevant at this point in our journey. Better to ask ourselves the promising and exciting question, “what now?”
So then, “What now?”
“I’ll go first!”
Now, in this moment, I choose to be present in my body and consider all of the riches I possess—my family, my friends, my job, my home, my ability to love and be loved. Now, in this instant, I make a conscious choice to awaken and experience life as I have never experienced life before—not frivolous or oblivious to the pain or difficulties that surround me, but fully accepting my place, my role as a fellow journeyer, a follower, a guide, a light (whatever is needed and I am able to provide in any given situation).
I commit to living my life to its’ utmost capacity. I will grieve, when those times come, without shame. I will dance with full abandon. I will love to my very core myself and those I have been bless with in this life—even if it breaks my heart at times. I will seek to grow, learn and stretch myself mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically.
What if I choose to embrace all that life has to offer—all the beauty, all the pain, all of the unpredictability—all of it? Well then I have gifted myself with an authentic life worth living!
"As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before
passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Want to take a stab at the question “What now” in your own life? We’d love to be inspired by you!
Here’s to being a witness and support of your “What Now?” !!!
How many times have we asked that question? What if I hadn’t entered into marriage at 18 years old? What if I had taken that job offer ten years ago? What if I hadn’t had children so young?
These questions have to do with choices we made that impacted the course of our lives. These are powerful questions to consider, not because we can turn back the hands of time, but because we hold the same power today, at this very moment to make choices that drive our life’s course. In fact, I assert that our thoughts and actions hold even more power today because we are more aware--we have witnessed and experienced the results, the true power, of the choices we make. It is a very human, but very limiting, temptation to want to dwell on the question, “what if…?” The truth is, that question is unanswerable and irrelevant at this point in our journey. Better to ask ourselves the promising and exciting question, “what now?”
So then, “What now?”
“I’ll go first!”
Now, in this moment, I choose to be present in my body and consider all of the riches I possess—my family, my friends, my job, my home, my ability to love and be loved. Now, in this instant, I make a conscious choice to awaken and experience life as I have never experienced life before—not frivolous or oblivious to the pain or difficulties that surround me, but fully accepting my place, my role as a fellow journeyer, a follower, a guide, a light (whatever is needed and I am able to provide in any given situation).
I commit to living my life to its’ utmost capacity. I will grieve, when those times come, without shame. I will dance with full abandon. I will love to my very core myself and those I have been bless with in this life—even if it breaks my heart at times. I will seek to grow, learn and stretch myself mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically.
What if I choose to embrace all that life has to offer—all the beauty, all the pain, all of the unpredictability—all of it? Well then I have gifted myself with an authentic life worth living!
"As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before
passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Want to take a stab at the question “What now” in your own life? We’d love to be inspired by you!
Here’s to being a witness and support of your “What Now?” !!!
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