It Has Begun
June 2, 2008 | Get Inspired!, A Kick in the Butt, How to Change Your Life
Have you ever sat down and tried to figure out where you particular journey really began? I have; every time I think I have it pinpointed I remember a time a few months before that moment when…
Personally, I’ve come to the conclusion that life is one great long dance; that God is wooing us deeper and deeper into life and as long as we are willing to be challenged and to face our presumptions about the world (and God himself) then there will always be a deeper place that we can be drawn into. The journey and the wooing will just keep happening. After all, we live in a world of “more than we can ask or imagine” so how could we possibly run out of amazing and mind blowing things to discover?
Of course, there are some significant events - moments - that were definite beginnings in our lives. For me, many of them revolve around reading books (my primary source of mind stretching and belief challenging information). I can trace so many significant revelations or moments of waking up to a hidden truth to specific books I was reading (it doesn’t mean the books are life changing in and of themselves - but more that they served as a “time and place” nudge). Reading Writing Down the Bones, Jesus, Life Coach, The Artist’s Way, Our Father Abraham, and A New Earth (among many others) have all brought about great moment of introspection and revelation that I remember as New Beginnings in my life.
The problem, I think, with beginnings is that they too often happen by accident. We fail to mark them, to declare them, and so it’s often not untill we are well down our current path that we even become aware that there even was a beginning. So, we are always trying to work our way backwards and figure out where it all began.
What we really need to do is make a declaration; we need to decide that Today, right now is going to be the beginning. “Today is the beginning of the rest of you life” and all that jazz. Sometimes we have these great electrical moments happen to us (like Cynthia commented about on my last post) and sometimes we need to create those moments in our lives.
I figure we might as well create one of those moments right now. It’s simple enough, just make a declaration, an agreement with yourself (and with me, if you like) that: One year from today my life will be measurably different.
If you like, you can journal about this decision, you can make a piece of art about it or create a ritual that helps you to draw a line in the sand. But really, all that’s necessary is that you intend for it to be true - and then it will be.
It may not be dramatic. It may creep up on you unawares. But without fail, I can promise you, that the life you are living one year from now will not be the same as the one you are living today. As long as change is what you want, then change is what you’ll get.
Lesson #1 in How to Change Your Life: Sometimes we need to be intentional about our Personal Renaissances. Go ahead, choose to do something different and declare your new life to have begun. Now you are actively pursuing growth and Life instead of just aimlessly wandering through it all!
If you decide to take part in my How to Change Your Life series, or if you are declaring today to be your new beginning I’d LOVE to hear from you. Post a comment or shoot me an email (muse @ flamingrenaissance dot com) and I’ll be sure to join your personal cheerleading squad!
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