We see these three little words often floating around. People share them faithfully. People recite them aloud with consistency. I love these three words. My question to you is, 'are you listening?' Do you embrace these words? If the answer is no, then why not? We doubt ourselves; we compare ourselves; we beat ourselves up all more than we love ourselves, validate ourselves and cheer ourselves on. Enough already, I say, enough! You are enough TODAY. You are enough AS YOU ARE. You are enough in all the beauty that makes you who you are in the moment. Stop trying to be someone other than who you have always been meant to be. You.
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II am sharing a bit today about Pilgrimage. Many know that I have led and ministered through multiple pilgrimages from the Holy Land to my long-time ministry in Lourdes, France. It has my heart.
The Camino more specifically has been a call to walk for many years. As I have shared before my dearest friend Mary, since passed away, walked half of the Camino not knowing she was dying and the other half knowing she was walking in her final days of cancer. Several weeks before she passed away, she made me promise to walk it with her in Spirit, I agreed. I had intended to walk it for my 50th then Covid hit. It is still my plan and goal to do so in the next few years. The movie The Way with Martin Sheen came out during her final months. It was released limitedly in theatres, and I drove in a snowstorm two hours away to connect to my friend. I fell in love with the Camino that evening and understood finally what Mary meant by the enormity of this beautiful spiritual pilgrimage. Well, TONIGHT, another movie (documentary) is being released for one night only. Like The Way if enough folks attend, it will be picked up and opened for a longer time. Not in my practice as of late, I am doing this one thing for myself and driving to Charlotte for this special prayer and screening. It is that special. We all walk pilgrimages daily in our lives; some more intense and further than others. What does Pilgrimage mean to you? Would you ever consider walking such a beautiful journey to go deeper into your true calling as to why you are here? Wherever you are tonight I strongly encourage you to go see this movie! I can honestly say you will not be disappointed, I trust this message that much. Breaking ourselves open. Sounds scary for some and simple for others. There was a time when I would never consider this idea. That was a time of my youth locked away in the ideals of my upbringing that you don't talk about anything ever; hold it all in and never show yourself. That nearly killed me in a 14-year battle with disordered eating and body image and haunts me still in a journey walking through anxiety and depression that most individuals face; we just aren't talking about it. Hear that again; most people are struggling and productive human beings. There is no shame in mental illness. When we open ourselves up, we grow, we heal, we learn, and we become who we are meant to be. Consider these ideas today and I will bring this back more in depth next week with a blog post.
Are you paying attention? I came across this the other day and full on stopped. How often do we approach any relationship with our own ideas, before taking into account who they were before we met them? No one loves the same. No one walks the same journey. If there is any one thing I have learned over my life; it is that we each come to know love in vastly diverse ways with past experiences guiding us. Some come from deep pain and wounds that meet love in very different circumstances. They need to be approached with gentle care and concern. Imagine taking the time to understand how someone needed to be loved? That is a relationship that will grow into a deep connection with respect and optimism.
Healing: to make free from injury or disease: to make sound or whole. heal a wound; to restore to health. to mend. Integrate: to combine two or more things so that they work together. Affliction: something that causes pain or suffering. I have never hidden my belief of everything happens for a reason. Every situation that you walk into within your life is going to offer you something for the greater good when you take a moment to look; to consider; to embrace; to accept. We all have pain and affliction. We all desire healing for something within our life. Do you take the time to integrate these two immensely powerful and distinct actions together? The reality is that they dance together through life daily all around us. It can be small; it can be grand. The reality is that we are always being challenged on this journey to be who we are meant to become. Look around you, look within you. What pain have you avoided? What affliction have you simply pushed down? How can you integrate these gifts within your life to create a better you? |
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