“Hiding Out?” Blog #183
I look back at myself to a much younger me, am I disappointed?
Proud to see a “higher self, how do I present myself to those around me?
Do I pray to find hidden talents buried deep inside?
One day when I was ten years old, I was walking around my neighborhood. Knowing most
of the people up and down the block. I knew all the names. I thought the adults in those
homes seemed very old to me! I recall thinking someday, I will go far away and do
whatever I want to do with my life. I also look back thinking, “If I walk around the block
enough times and hold my breath to the count of sixty or more, maybe all my wishes for
what I want will come true…..” How many of us are filled with hidden little “Jinx’s?” How
often have I tried to sabotage my own outcome? Do I disregard my higher self intent?
Time goes so fast from twenty to forty to sixty , seventy five…and then what? The best part
of looking back at my life was when I dared to believe in myself and I just did it. I moved
to another state, I went after a job I never thought I could get, then I got it! Taking a
chance on something good, I believed would happen. If “something I want to go after is
for my highest good - Pray first then, go after it”.
How awesome life can be, when I stop hiding out. Whether it’s the wrong kind of friends
who hold me down, or the crutch of alcohol or drugs, or something someone said who has
kept me stuck, these are all my own challenges. I refuse to keep hiding out I have faith,
fortitude and am free from “old dark drama”.
There are people from all over the world. Young people, those in midlife to the very old. All
have made a positive difference in the world from their pain. INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
TO SOCIETY FROM INDIVIDUAL PAIN. People from twelve to ninety two, have changed the
face of America from inside out. Recently in Texas, too many children to name, died in a
tragic camp flood, yet a 12 year old girl rewrote the lines to Hallelujah and remembered 28
of her camp friends who died on national TV. Then there was a young mother who
tragically lost her beautiful daughter to a repeat drunk driver offender! Yet Candy Lightner
turned her personal tragedy into help for millions, when she started MADD, Mothers Against
Drunk Drivers. There was Julia Child who had never cooked much of anything and went to
France with her husbands job, and had no idea what to do with her spare time. So she not
only attended cooking school late in life, but became famous In America and Europe for
many cook books and TV shows, teaching others how to prepare delicious meals. A small
little lady has left a permanent mark on the world. Mother Teresa left an imprint on the
entire world by helping the lepers of Calcutta and heal the poor. When a reporter stopped
her on a street corner, she had recently received the Nobel Peace Prize. He said, “You have
dedicated your life to helping the poorest of the poor - the lepers, millions of people living
in extreme poverty imaginable, how have you possibly done this?” Mother Theresa
smiled and quietly stated, “One person at a time”. Then there was Bill Wilson, Bill started
drinking in his early twenties and became a raging alcoholic. When he decided to stop
drinking, he wanted to help those around him, how did he do this? He started something
call Alcoholics Anonymous. We also have a woman who at 78 years old was filled with
arthritis. She gave up things she loved and started painting. One day an art collector
walked past a drug store, where one of her painting was in the window. That was the
beginning of years of notoriety for the famous painter Grandma Moses. Before she turned
101, she had created over one thousand paintings and received high awards. I am going
to end this blog today with an inspiring story of a woman in 2009, who in just three weeks
on media, her video performance was downloaded 180 million times. Susan Boyle was a
forty eight year old unknown from a little town in England. Yet, her life was instantly
changed overnight when she became a singing sensation in her late forties. No one
expected much out of this woman who walked out on stage of “Britain’s Got Talent” and
gave her life changing performance of “I Dreamed a Dream”.
Whether we are young. mid age or elderly, we each need to have a dream and hold on to
it. This dream can be small, it can be filled with love for someone else. Regardless of age,
one must be passionate about something. Each one of us is unique. God has given us
each a beautiful, fascinating, inner faith that we need only to believe in HIM. I also know
God helps those who help themselves 24/7. So, I promise from this day on, no more hiding
out from my “Higher Self” possibilities. I am truth now. I am love now. I am God’s divine
creation always.
Can I stop hiding out from my “Higher Self” today?
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