It is easy for me to get lost in my own story. It is easy to become focused on achieving the things that call out for my attention each day, to lose the direction and the narrative.
It is easy to allow the immediate to distract me from the meaningful.
This is a good week for rediscovery. It is an opportunity to recall the wonderful gifts I have received throughout this year, and reflect back through other years.
This year has been full of amazing gifts and new beginnings. After watching every New Year’s on television, I attended my first Rose Bowl game. I met and worked with gifted, incredible people. I launched my first Craft Brewery Pilgrimage this year, and hosted my first Happy Hour with a Difference. I became an Apple person this year. I started running again.
Again and again, I rediscovered that meaning comes from within.
It is great when people respond to what I say and do. I take great comfort when I help people go deep within themselves to learn and grow; when they respond with laughter or tears, with their own anger or fear, with insight or clarity.
No matter how someone responds, or whether anyone responds at all, there is deep meaning for me in rediscovering my true self and recognizing how that true self relates to the true selves of those around me.
That is the story I need to rediscover, again and again, and the story that shapes where I am going. That is the story I listen to in silence and solitude, the story I spend time at the monastery to hear.
That is the story I share with others, and help them hear for themselves.
What is your story? Can I help you rediscover and share your true self?
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