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_ This post was originally shared in the October Museletter. Are you signed up? Museletter subscribers get exclusive content, first dibs on freebies and additional chances to enter giveaways! Sign up here!“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” That’s how the saying goes, and I have always loved it; but I am thinking now what it means in relation to
A Course in Miracles.
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Image adapted by me from the original by Mike Fischer (click image for source).
This year my chosen word is Yes, and I expect I shall be writing about it frequently. Yes encompasses, for me, the words Receive, Open, Fearless, Freedom and Courage. It also takes under its wing my previous Words of the Year, Self-Love and Surrender.
It is a natural progression. It is big and bold. It is an affirmation of life itself.
YES!
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Surrender is not for sissies.
But it is common for people to misunderstand what surrender is. One misunderstanding results in an image of a woman who has given up. She lays down in the road, inviting the world to run her down.
“Come and get me,” she whispers, and she means it. Sort of.
Photo by Alexandre Dulaunoy
If you haven't seen the first
Summer SCHOOL of Self-Love assignment yet, click
here (opens in new window).
I wrote the below poem (click "Read More") while reading the book
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha, by Tara Brach. Definitely recommended reading for your
Summer of Self-Love. The poem is an interesting intersect between my 2010 Word of the Year,
Self-Love, and my 2011 Word of the Year,
Surrender. Loving yourself requires a whole lot of surrender. And, in this case, saying Yes.
flickr- bryan upton
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell Still a ways from becoming my 2011 Word of the Year, Surrender fell into my consciousness like a pomegranate seed in late fall, while I was reading
this blog post by my friend
@meganmonique.
Surrender. At first blush, the word brings with it some baggage: it sounds like the position of a weak-willed person, not standing their ground. But viewed through the lens of my Faith in some semblance of Divine Order, Surrender is not at all a position of the weak-willed. It comes from the strength of someone who Does Not Know For Sure, and is okay living with that uncertainty. Trusting in Flow, rather than clashing against, and therefore resisting What Is.
