Unfolding of the Gift

"You are unfolding with profound purpose;

your purpose is revealing you, to yourself."

Bryant McGill

The new born baby was safely placed into the arms of the adoptive parents. They were asked how they imagined the baby boy would be.  The newly appointed father laughed, saying that the child was a gift that would continuously unwrap himself.  Together, the parents perceived the baby would strive to meet his purpose, and not theirs.

Even with honored individual purpose, life's journey swerves with surprise turns or dead ends.  We can project how we want our life to be, but outcomes are rarely what had been predicted.  Just as the four seasons remain constant, they rarely are identical to the year before. Patterns may continue, but often change in texture as well as color.

It is human nature to create an image of how we want to be, but we must never omit flexibility or stop listening to our soul.  God has a plan which often is far better than what we have in mind. Communication is always key!

Tolerating Pain Avoids Corrective Action

"When you are avoiding your pain

you are really only avoiding your growth."

Bryant McGill

Disruption arrives at our door, but as the one who welcomes the disruption in, we are held responsible for reestablishing harmony.  The unfortunate piece is disruption often appears to be a good thing which we then embrace whole heartedly.

If a person is breathing, he or she will be subject to disruption.  The outcome is based upon awareness and response time.  If we trust our first gut instinct we may save some time, but if we over ride our intuition, we step further into mayhem.

We are not called to be tolerant of our pain as it is simply postponing the lesson.  The longer we wait additional drama and entanglement adheres to the sticky situation.  Humble the self by admitting to making an error and correcting it while gaining additional experience.  This is how we grow.

Dwarf the Lovely Experience

"You were always stronger than

your fear and pain."

Bryant McGill

Emotional development is frequently hampered by life experiences.  We are wounded and our heart nor our mind forgets.  We tend to build up barriers to keep others out, thinking we will never be hurt again.  This story we tell ourselves is not true.  Our barriers may keep others outside, but they also keep our pain inside as well.

Over time, layers of pain continue to build as we attempt to repress them.  We falsely believe we are better by being 'above' basic feelings of anger or rage, but in reality, we are doing ourselves more harm.

The ideal process is to feel the pain, and then let it go before it gets stuck and thickened by additional emotion.  In this way, we will not grow weary of the need to be strong, manning the fort.  We can more or less flow through life with far less baggage to pull us down.

Changes continue to bombard us with emotions, and not all of them are bad, but armor deflects the good along with the bad.  We need to be in a receiving and giving mode, to interact with all levels of emotion and we won't do this by hiding.  By creating barriers, we can become stagnant, embittered, and dwarf the lovely experience life was meant to be.