From Repurposed Find to Life Found! Happy New Year!

So do you have any new insights about your story? I’d like to really touch on something as we wrap up and mauve into the new year today. I hope you’ve found that your story is beautiful, it’s compelling, it’s complex, it’s sweet and it’s yours. What I really want you to see is that our story matters because our stories impact others. Our stories should always point to a bigger story. Our stories should tell of hope, of lessons learned, of community. Our stories should be reflections of loving others well. So often, when we uncover what our thought system is based in, how we perceive or view the world, it’s based in fear. Is that true for you? What if rather than filtering our view of situations and people through this lens of fear, we do something completely radical and filter it through love? 

What if rather than consider how things will impact us first we try to look at it from another’s perspective? What if we can try to be a people that is quick to give others the benefit of the doubt and slow to take offense? What if we could look at challenges in our lives as teaching opportunities and richer experiences rather than seeing things from a victim perspective expecting the worst? The reality is so much of our thought systems are based in fear. We try to shield ourselves from experiences that can actually be great opportunities for us to learn more about ourselves. 

So as we joyously move into next year, as we say goodbye to 2013, as we prepare our goals and “resolutions”, why not remind yourself that there is a light in all of us. We each were given the ability to burn brightly, to be human torches that pass this amazing light from one to another. The question is, how bright is your light? Do you have enough of a spark to share with others? Do you need someone to come along side you and be just the catalyst that you need? That’s what we’ll be discussing starting tomorrow friends….Until then, be grateful for 2013, no matter how challenging or disappointing it was. Every experience allows us the chance to grow. Now lets all set our hearts on fire! Let’s not shrink back from change but move toward it head on, lets all decide that this year we will live! We will live with our hearts ablaze and we will bring others our fire!