Our Greatest Growth is in our Most Tender MomentsFear used to feel like it had a power over me like a storm buffeting a tree. As the tree learns so do I, as those stormy winds blow, I dig down deep and put my roots well below the surface, and deeply connect with the earth. The stronger the winds the more I learn the value of flexibility and flowing with the seasons.I now see the illusion that fear is. Fear used to be a block, a barrier in the way of Being Love. Seeing through the illusion led me home to Love. If the tree was scared of the wind and was in fear of the wind, the tree would become rigid and be thrown off balance, and even be uprooted, and lay a waste ever blaming the wind. If instead as the tree, I see the illusion of fear, and once I see this and awaken to Love, I would start to learn about myself and realize that one of my deepest loves is to grow, and isn't it magic that at my tenderest moments when I am most vulnerable is where I grow the most. And it is these very tender new shoots that by their very nature are perfectly designed to be the most flexible and flow with the winds as they twist and turn. It isn't the tender new shoot that get broken, it is the more rigid ones. How true for us that it is that to which we most tightly hold that is of most risk of breaking. Tender new growth by its very nature is flexible. Things that we hold very tightly are indeed rigid and the first to break when the winds of change blow our way. © Carol Goddard 2008 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carol Goddard is an Australian author and presenter, a reminder of who we are. Carol's offering is her Open Heart and the Deepening Remembrance of her own Essence, Carol offers programs both locally and globally. Please visit www.CarolGoddard.net NOTE: You're welcome to "reprint" this article online as long as it remains complete and unaltered (including the "about the author" info at the end). |