(I first published this post on 12/31/14. It seems to me to be as relevant as ever.)
Go deeper still…
You already know this: there is profound wisdom, strength, beauty, and grace that lies in wait – deep within you. When you listen, when you trust, when you are honest, it’s what only you can hear. It’s your voice. And it tells you to stand, to rise, to sing, to create, to dance, to write, to speak, to weep, to preach, to scream, to dream, to desire, to hope, to love, to be…you.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the layers of cultural messaging and familial patterns.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the relational rules and patterns that twist and contort.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the voices – within and without – that shout you into silence.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the shame that suffocates.
Go deeper still.
Beneath economic restraint that (seemingly) hinders.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the religious constructs that bind.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the ego’s incessant drone that causes you to recede.
Go deeper still.
There, beneath all of this (and deeper still) beats your heart. And there, in that deep and solid and gorgeous you, is all you’ve ever needed, all you will ever need. The confirmation. The affirmation. The certainty. The will. The sovereignty. The profound wisdom, strength, beauty, and grace that is (already) yours. That IS you.
Ahhhhhhh.
I know…
Just as quickly as you descend, you are pulled – coughing and spluttering – to the surface. Your practiced, poised, and “appropriate” self already anticipates the problems, the risks, the consequences of letting that voice, that you, out. You will most certainly be misunderstood.
Exactly!
You are not here to be understood. You are here to be you.
Which is why you must go deeper still. Into the very womb of your truest self where you are fluent in your heart’s language, where you are certain of your knowing, where you are whole, complete, not lacking for anything, and at rest. Where you are sovereign. Where your profound wisdom, strength, beauty, and grace lies in wait.
And just so you know: none of this, this you, is going anywhere. And we can (and will) wait.
I’m wondering though…Can you?
It’s time to go deeper still.
May it be so.
*****
This “deeper still” place is what I’m committed to on your behalf (and my own). It’s what I invite you to and support through A Sunday Letter, through Sacred Readings, and through my 1:1 work via Coaching or Spiritual Direction.
Go deeper still…
You already know this: there is profound wisdom, strength, beauty, and grace that lies in wait – deep within you. When you listen, when you trust, when you are honest, it’s what only you can hear. It’s your voice. And it tells you to stand, to rise, to sing, to create, to dance, to write, to speak, to weep, to preach, to scream, to dream, to desire, to hope, to love, to be…you.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the layers of cultural messaging and familial patterns.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the relational rules and patterns that twist and contort.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the voices – within and without – that shout you into silence.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the shame that suffocates.
Go deeper still.
Beneath economic restraint that (seemingly) hinders.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the religious constructs that bind.
Go deeper still.
Beneath the ego’s incessant drone that causes you to recede.
Go deeper still.
There, beneath all of this (and deeper still) beats your heart. And there, in that deep and solid and gorgeous you, is all you’ve ever needed, all you will ever need. The confirmation. The affirmation. The certainty. The will. The sovereignty. The profound wisdom, strength, beauty, and grace that is (already) yours. That IS you.
Ahhhhhhh.
I know…
Just as quickly as you descend, you are pulled – coughing and spluttering – to the surface. Your practiced, poised, and “appropriate” self already anticipates the problems, the risks, the consequences of letting that voice, that you, out. You will most certainly be misunderstood.
Exactly!
You are not here to be understood. You are here to be you.
Which is why you must go deeper still. Into the very womb of your truest self where you are fluent in your heart’s language, where you are certain of your knowing, where you are whole, complete, not lacking for anything, and at rest. Where you are sovereign. Where your profound wisdom, strength, beauty, and grace lies in wait.
And just so you know: none of this, this you, is going anywhere. And we can (and will) wait.
I’m wondering though…Can you?
It’s time to go deeper still.
May it be so.
*****
This “deeper still” place is what I’m committed to on your behalf (and my own). It’s what I invite you to and support through A Sunday Letter, through Sacred Readings, and through my 1:1 work via Coaching or Spiritual Direction. SOVEREIGNTY – my live, 9-week program that speaks to all of this and then some. In the meantime (and ongoing), please join me in my SOVEREIGNTY Facebook Group. It’s time to go deeper still – and I want to make this journey with you.