How did you reach outside your comfort zone this week?
I followed my intuition and signed up for a local women's spiritual retreat next weekend, where (I think) I won't know a soul! Uncomfy for a shy person like me. I'd been mulling it over for weeks, wistfully eyeing the beautiful brochure, volleying back and forth between wanting to go ("Feels like the perfect way to kick off my sabbatical") and being afraid ("But I won't know anybody!").
Wayne Dyer wrote, "For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored."
I'm trying to stay aware of these whispers from God, and then the magical faith part -- act on them! Not let stinky ol' Fear dictate my decisionmaking. So what if I don't know anybody? I definitely will by retreat's end, and know I'll be the richer for it.
I thought I would share my stretch for this week with you:
Tomorrow I am going on a solo road trip to Wyoming, into the Tetons, for a three day music festival. Now, at first glance, this just seems like a much needed retreat/vacation. And really, it is that. For me, though, it is so much more.
The last time I went on a vacation alone like this I was about 11 -- and things did not end very well, not well at all.
So, it is with a bit of trepidation and a load of excitment and a backpack of great expectation that I set off on this trip to do a lot of thinking and feeling and letting go.
I don't think I have to prove anything. I don't expect things to be all smooth. I don't expect things to go wrong either. Rather, I am just open to whatever is going to come, good or bad, with the knowledge that I am *not* an 11 year girl anymore. I am a strong, capable, intelligent, vivacious, loving, open, complicated, stubborn, delicious woman...who likes raspberries...
:)
Posted by: Jenn | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 08:35 AM