We travel together but we journey alone

A thought came to me the other day, “Your life is good.” With that, I felt a compliance and a resignation that I need do no more. I agreed with the thought that my life is good. I am blessed. Blessed with a good family, kids that I love and adore, beautiful grandchildren and a job that I love. I have good friends and a nice home. I have peace which to me is one of the most important things in life one could have. As I settled into that thought that this was it, that still soft voice rose up from within, “If you had another 30 years to live would this be all you want?” The answer came back, a loud, resounding, “NO! I want more!” I want to live a passion filled life. Filled with dreams and aspirations manifested. I’m tired of having my passion buried within me lifeless feeling suffocated and stuck. My dreams scream and beg me to take action while I muffle them with all of the I cant’s, all the fears and self-limiting beliefs. Yet, my dreams don’t stop beckoning me. When I peer out into the world, I see so much potential. Yet, I am a bystander not daring to reach for my dreams. Do I want to stand here knowing what is possible and never giving it my best shot?  DO I DARE? To reach beyond my comfort level? To fail? To succeed? To live from my heart and not my head? To live the dreams that I have let die a slow and painful death? To resurrect them and breathe life into them? We all have dreams that we’ve stopped dreaming. Let’s begin once again to dream our greatest dreams. Say yes to ourselves, believe in our dreams and pray for the courage. Do we dare to take one small dream and begin to bring it to its fruition? 

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Jeremiah 29:11

The longest journey is from our head to the heart. We journey together, although we travel alone. We feel lost and alone traveling on this arduous road. On this path we find travelers like ourselves searching for what we feel and believe is missing. Everyone is frantically searching for that missing link. We can’t truly see, we have lost our vision. We grab on with our clinging hands to something or someone as if this, is our lifeline. The answer to our search, to that which will complete us and finally make us happy. It slips from our hands and we can’t hold onto it. For it is not the answer. We search not knowing that what we seek already lies within ourselves. We are told this, taught this but for some reason, we do not believe it. So the external search continues. When we are finally spent, broken and left with that gaping hole in our heart and soul, we come up for air. We gasp for air, we say a prayer, ask for help and we breathe life back into our lives. We begin the journey towards truth, we dive into the depths of our soul for the answers, for it is only there that they can be found. Then and only then is when we are led from our head to our heart, and the process begins…

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free…John 8:32