What is your individual purpose or role as you see it? Why
do you feel or think you are here? What are our individual expectations of
self? I’ll use an analogy of ships or other vessels. The craft is
expected to transport safely its staff, and cargo from one point to another.
The ship, crew and collective volume are invaluable, priceless and in most
cases cannot be replaced. Ships were not built to remain in the berth or port.
Thus far can we agree in order for the ship and staff to satisfy their respective
roles and purpose that they must at least leave shore?
And so it is with us. Leaving the shore of doubt and
disbelief involves the process of faith in one’s own competence. Trusting in
ones innate gifts. Our role is to courageously set sail in the yet uncultivated
waters of life. Naturally it provokes a bit of fear to enter the unfamiliar yet
in order to satisfy our position we choose movement instead of the stagnation
of remaining tied up, bound and wrapped in dread, as well as
apprehension.
The mere knowing we have the power to alter or improve our
lives can add an element of fear. Fear of responsibility, failure, or maybe
even transformation.
You may ask, “what do I do with this conversion? What does
transformation look like? What does renovation feel like? Can I maintain this
makeover?” Notice I did not use the word change as this word strikes shear
distress in some of us. We were neither created to be afraid of nor to be
intimidated by or reluctant towards the expression of Love of ourselves. Leaving
the shore of hesitation as well as arranged doubts about our talents is long
overdue.
The quest to courageously forge ahead towards an opportunity
offers the chance to utilize such gifts as the authority of expression,
acknowledging crucial learning experiences that add to the development of
character, integrity, to ignite the fire of passion and desire for the vision
to reach fruition. The very idea that
“yes its possible that I can leave shore” will in time supersede any origin of
fear imaginable. But only if one allows that.
Learning to love one’s self is a process that is worth the
continued journey of work. There are
required ports-of-call on our ship’s manifest.
Ships dock in the course of voyages to load or unload cargo, obtain
supplies, or undergo repairs. Making the decision to leave
life’s various shores encountered will
allow an opportunity to unload the cargo which weighed us down, acquire the
provisions of optimism and assurance, secure associations of like-minded
sojourners to inspire the development of audacity, as well as to restore areas
of our life.
Our tapping into our potential is one of many requirements
as travelers with an itinerary. Our ability to access our genius is
available to all of us but we’ll never know if we don’t set sail and
explore.
Rev.
Barbara Williams provides services in the areas of premarital
counseling, facilitating addiction workshops aimed at the progressive
benefits of holistic counseling, officiating of weddings or civil
ceremonies, christenings, baptism’s, baby naming interpretations, home
blessings, transitional or home going ceremonies also known as funeral
services and the reading of the Tarot. Rev. Barbara Williams currently
resides in Poughkeepsie, New York and can be reached at either
bwilliamsmmsc@yahoo.com or (845) 392-2909. See her Bio for further
information.
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Rev. Barbara Williams
