[Radiant Living] Diving Deep for Life's Treasures
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Emerge Healing
Mar 23, 2009, 4:10:00 PM3/23/09
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by Megan Woolever
Our destiny is like a treasure chest buried deep in the ocean floor. Not knowing it is out there we play it safe on the shores of life. Sticking with what is familiar, what is known, what is comfortable. We see others on the shore and they seem happy, content with pails and shovels digging in the sand, splashing in the water. "Its a good life," we say to ourselves, never knowing that there is undiscovered treasure just out beyond the breakers.
As evolutionary beings our destiny is to grow, to change, to evolve. We are not destined to play it safe, for safety equals stagnation. Safety means that we are protecting what we already have, which means we will always have just that, what we have, whether it be an object, information or level of awareness. It is only when we muster up the courage to dive deeper, to explore the unknown that we open ourselves to our destiny, our hidden treasure.
When we wade out into deeper water we take the risk of not knowing what lies beneath. What lies hidden in the vast expanse of our potential? It may seem scary, overwhelming, yet we do not do this unprepared or alone. When we dive deep we take care to arm ourselves with the right equipment and support systems to anchor and sustain us while we explore, whether that is a person who supports us, a program or a belief system.
Diving deep requires we let go of the illusion of safety and control and allow our destiny to call us, to woo us, like sonar searching for a hidden location. Only when we learn to hear the siren call of destiny, asking us to expand beyond anything we thought we could ever be, do we arrive at the destination of our soul's purpose. It is then we realize that we are the key to this treasure box, we have held it always. But this process isn't mapped out, it is felt out. Each day, each moment, each breath.
We begin this odyssey by quieting ourselves so that we can hear the pulse of the ocean, sense the ebb and flow of the tide, see the pattern of the sea birds in flight. And from the heightened state of our senses we begin to distinguish the still, small voice of our destiny calling to us. The Rev. Michael Beckwith has said about destiny, "God doesn't call the qualified, God qualifies the called." I would add that each of us are called. So the question that remains is, "Can you hear your destiny calling?"
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Posted By Emerge Healing to Radiant Living at 3/23/2009 12:42:00 PM
If you feel safe in the area that you are working in you're not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you are capable of being in - go a little bit out of your depth - and when you feel your feet are not quite touching the bottom you are just about in the right place to do something exciting.
- David Bowie
Our destiny is like a treasure chest buried deep in the ocean floor. Not knowing it is out there we play it safe on the shores of life. Sticking with what is familiar, what is known, what is comfortable. We see others on the shore and they seem happy, content with pails and shovels digging in the sand, splashing in the water. "Its a good life," we say to ourselves, never knowing that there is undiscovered treasure just out beyond the breakers.
As evolutionary beings our destiny is to grow, to change, to evolve. We are not destined to play it safe, for safety equals stagnation. Safety means that we are protecting what we already have, which means we will always have just that, what we have, whether it be an object, information or level of awareness. It is only when we muster up the courage to dive deeper, to explore the unknown that we open ourselves to our destiny, our hidden treasure.
When we wade out into deeper water we take the risk of not knowing what lies beneath. What lies hidden in the vast expanse of our potential? It may seem scary, overwhelming, yet we do not do this unprepared or alone. When we dive deep we take care to arm ourselves with the right equipment and support systems to anchor and sustain us while we explore, whether that is a person who supports us, a program or a belief system.
Diving deep requires we let go of the illusion of safety and control and allow our destiny to call us, to woo us, like sonar searching for a hidden location. Only when we learn to hear the siren call of destiny, asking us to expand beyond anything we thought we could ever be, do we arrive at the destination of our soul's purpose. It is then we realize that we are the key to this treasure box, we have held it always. But this process isn't mapped out, it is felt out. Each day, each moment, each breath.
We begin this odyssey by quieting ourselves so that we can hear the pulse of the ocean, sense the ebb and flow of the tide, see the pattern of the sea birds in flight. And from the heightened state of our senses we begin to distinguish the still, small voice of our destiny calling to us. The Rev. Michael Beckwith has said about destiny, "God doesn't call the qualified, God qualifies the called." I would add that each of us are called. So the question that remains is, "Can you hear your destiny calling?"
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Posted By Emerge Healing to Radiant Living at 3/23/2009 12:42:00 PM
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