Overwriting

I think I am somewhat resolved to the fact that the United States' economy calls us all to this harried pace, which in many cases does not allow us to think about our lives meanwhile they fly by us, and we are left lost as to the reasons why we have chosen anything that is currently a part of our lives. Perhaps I overreact and am not thinking clearly, and perhaps I am simply lazy, and based on this last opinion I am starting to try to pick up the pace a bit. But I will say that I will never go so fast as to sacrifice who I am in favor of anything financial. Though I see that hard work does indeed pay off, I am uncertain that this is truly going to prove fulfilling for me in life. For the moment yes I need work hard and push to fulfill all the obligations put upon me, however I am not beholden to anything in this world beyond my life within it. Once this is done, no one can hold me to them, and so up to this point I have lived my life quite recklessly, but I daresay, quite daringly as well. Maybe I have a misconceived notion of daring, but I believe this is simply being willing and ready to greet whatever circumstance and to always follow your heart wherever it may lead.

I do not want the conventional life. I do not want to work forty hours a week and come home every night to my family awaiting me, or maybe I do, but not today, not tomorrow, not for a long time to come. I want the world, I want to touch the person that lives in you and call him or her out to live the life that is greater! To reach up to God in love, and then be able to reach out to one another. To change the face of this planet by your simply living inspired! You cannot be anyone other than yourself, but we all need to be inspired to do so. If your life is boring to you, change it, find a way to make it more interesting, regardless of what changes this may take. If you cannot change the big picture, alter the little things, make arrangements to do something fun every day, something that inspires you and fills you up and enables you to push on.

Perhaps I am a dreamer, and I know that I may be. But all I want from you is that you would dream too. That together we change this world to make it a place where everyone has the opportunity to achieve their dreams. Unfortunately we are right now in a great quandary. There are so many who squander the opportunities they have been given, and others who have ten times the inspiration of those who have squandered, and yet have nothing before them but poverty and endless restrictions and red tape.

What about these members of society? Do they get to dream? Let us hope that in the time to come we change our own lives and hearts so that we can dream, and so that our dreams help make it possible for others to realize their hopes and dreams. There are so many voices telling us that these things are black and white, but they are not. It takes a lifetime to come to know oneself, and around ever corner is a new opportunity to learn about ourselves and to adjust our lives to better include these so that we may live each day truly inspired and truly alive! And the bigger question, and greater difficulty is what a friend of mine once had posted on her door, that our job, our vocation, our mission, is that which lies, "where your greatest passion meets the world's greatest need". Or something to this effect...I think we have something to learn from this...

Keep living and learning and loving...together we will find our way, in the light of God's ever present, ever living Truth. Onward Christian soldiers!

Fire and Eyes

Has anyone ever asked you what you live for? Have you ever asked yourself? What is is that makes you jump out of bed every day and greet the day, eager to continue along the path that is your life? Is there anything in particular?

I live to see people come alive, to see the fire of passion for life rise inside of them and overcome them, and they are filled with joy and the inspiration to push on. When I see someone in despair it is as if my own heart sinks with them. I love when I see love, I despair when I see despair, I hope when I see hope, I can identify and empathize with any feeling. But I most love when people come alive. I have seen this in people's eyes, there are movies in which the camera zooms to the eyes as they observe the bonfire behind the camera and the reflection of the flames roil off the lens of the protagonist, however the fire burns so much brighter and truer in real life. It flows from the soul up through the corpus and into the ever-expressing, ever-observing, ever-readable eyes. The flame burns inside, and the person smiles and life is right again.

It has taken me my lifetime to figure out that I don't know exactly what makes me come alive, but I know when I feel it. Thus the importance of grasping those moments and situations in which our hearts are light and our love is true, remembering them and treasuring them and recreating them and reliving them at every possible opportunity. The road to fulfilling life begins with self-understanding. What do you enjoy? From there stem all the good things that God has in store for us in this life. For God truly wants for us what we most want in the truest part of ourselves. In being true to ourselves, to our desires, hopes, and dreams, we are being true to God. Be faithful, believe, and to thine own self be true, and you will be amazed at what you and God can do.