Walking the Passage: Waking up and Learning to Speak

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Waking up and Learning to Speak

Waking up and Learning to Speak

In the twenty sixth year of my life I woke up and twelve years later I have found my voice.....

I used to be terrified that if I spoke I would ruin my family. So I retreated into a world of my own creation where lies ruled and life was nothing more than a dazed blurry of events that I stumbled through.

I lived that way for so long...... too long....

I think of all the times where my behavior screamed a loud for attention. Where my body shook out of desperation and yet my actions went unnoticed. Time after time.......

I know I am one of the lucky ones....... I know that where I have come to is but a gift of grace.... I have made choices, yes.... but the strength, to make them and then to walk in them, has come from others and from above......

There are too many voices that aren't heard.... and we need to care.... I need to care...... to act...... to educate..... to be a hand that reaches back into the recesses of darkness and pull forth others that are entangled in its grip.......

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.