Making Everything Beautiful

So many of us are trying to get somewhere. We think there is a destination that we must keep working toward.

Wherever it is, it seems elusive. We don't seem to be getting any closer. It always seems in the distance. If we just try harder, we might get there. Eventually.

But, what if there is no such destination? What if, it is an illusion of our ego that there is somewhere we must get to?

What if the journey is the destination? And, we are already there?

We see a beautiful picture of how Life flows with ease and grace when we observe nature.

Nature doesn't strive to figure out what to do next.

There's an ebb and flow in nature. It knows what to do.

When we allow Life to ebb and flow in us the same way, we

experience a greater sense of ease in our life.

No more striving or forcing. No more making it happen.

That's how I've lived most of my life and it doesn't feel good.

I'm choosing a new way to live. With ease and grace.

As I am going through this period of being uprooted and in-between the old story and the new story of my life, I am experiencing just how marvelously Life is providing for me exactly what I need.

My heart is swelling as I feel the deep love Life has for me as everything I need shows up when I need it. Without fail.

Sometimes, I don't always recognize I am being provided for because I am expecting it look a different way.

But, then I see it. Life providing just what I need. Again.

Learning to surrender to what is, to the way things look at the moment, is the key to living Life fully and powerfully. That doesn't mean it's easy to do. Yet, Life gives us opportunities daily to practice. I'm currently learning this crucial lesson: how to surrender continuously.

Like the caterpillar surrenders to the process of becoming a butterfly, which requires that it dissolve so it can be recreated into a whole new creature, we're in a similar transformation process. Surrender is the key.

One would not expect to find joy in the rubble of a life crumbling apart.

Yet, when we surrender to the process that these events are here to teach us instead of fighting against them, our sorrow has a companion to walk alongside it. Joy.

Don't underestimate the power of joy to appear in the most unlikely places.

Today, I just plugged in my microphone and started sharing what I'm currently experiencing in my life to help me process it all. I teach what I'm learning. I coach myself as I go through life's challenging places. I'm in one of those places right now. It's uncomfortable to be in the challenging places in life, but they are necessary in order for us to become the highest version of ourselves we can be. It's all perfect.

Are you in a place of uncertainty? That uncomfortable place in-between the OLD and the NEW?

Raising my hand here! I'm in that place right now.

In this episode I share:

*The illusion that there is a destination to get to

*What the in-between place is and why we must pass through it

*What diamonds and butterflies have to do with it

*How we can move powerfully through such interim times in our life

*My own in-between story that I am currently in and the transformation I am receiving as a result

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