Wisdom Connections

On this Memorial Day we, as a country, honor those who have served in the Military Services, especially those who have died in service to the country.

It can also be a time to look at yourself and your life and ask yourself if there’s any part of yourself that died in service to a cause that might not have been yours.  Did the teachers in elementary school tell you what was right for you when some part of your inner being wanted to be something else?  Did family or friends try to shut down a part of you that wanted expression?  How about a boss who forced you to do something you felt uneasy about but felt you had to do to conform?

Society, TV, peers, families, churches, schools all ask us to form ourselves around some structure that they have defined as ‘the norm’ and we all do it at the time because it is expedient.  Often times it also keeps us safe.

But as adults we have options.  We can make choices about who we are, how we express ourselves.  What are you doing or being that now, in the light of all you have learned, might not be the expression of your essence?  Who would you be if you were a pure expression of the essence that is you?  What part of you has been ‘sleeping’, waiting for you to say, ‘Wake up and play!’?

Instead of mourning a loss of a part of self, let’s use today to find that part that we THOUGHT was dead and buried and resurrect it.  Let’s take a minute or two and ask ourselves if we can now give ourselves permission to express our essence in the world we live in.  Maybe now it’s safe to be whoever we truly are.

What part of you wants to hear, ‘Wake up and play!’?  Let’s bring that inner part out to play today!