The above is a quote from my Wylde Women’s Wisdom year-long series. The great thing about having put these quotes together, all 367 of them (to account for leap year), is that I can’t remember all of them, but my subscribers feed them back to me in notes. This one came in this past week and as they have a way of doing somehow, it was exactly the right moment: I was in the midst of moon madness and needed to stop and take a breath.
When something stops you in your tracks – for me this week it was a loud clap of unexpected thunder out of the blue-instead of immediately resuming whatever you were doing, just stop. Take it as a poke from your angels that you need a break. Leave some space and quiet for what you’ve been chasing to catch up with you.
You ever heard that old saying that goes something like: don’t travel faster than your angels can fly? It’s like that. Our Western world has gone crazy with the idea that every single moment must be monetized, that gifts are given more as manipulation than as grace, that success is measured by bank accounts.
I understand that we have a body that must live in this world and there are requirements (Boy do I understand!). But do you think working a job you hate is any better for your psyche and body than working a job you love and being a bit stressed out over paying the bills? More often than not a lot of those “bills” are consolation prizes because you’ve been such a good girl by staying at the job you hate. Think about that for a minute: how much would you save if you no longer had to buy consolation prizes to reward yourself but instead got to glory every single ordinary day in the magic and grace that is always trying to catch up with you?
You can write your own story (make your own mythology). You get to pick the strands and weave them together. One life has many story trajectories. Your “ordinary” is affected by the one you choose to focus on. Which one are you focusing on today?
Every one of us has stories. Not just one, but many. Sometimes after a while, the story we tell to ourself or to others changes – is it because we have learned a new truth? Or because we want to hide an old lie? Or do stories grow and change just like people – no more static than the water in a river moving toward the sea. Tammy Vitale
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David and Stacey and Barbara – thank you all for stopping by! I’m playing catch-up with everything since the hurricane: first tying things down, then waiting it out in the dark, then running away to running water and AC for a few days and now back, generator in tow, only to need it for only a few hours – we know it works, we have it when we need it, and I am one very grateful person that I have so many wonderful people visiting and chatting with me all the time!
The insight and wisdom of your words is phenomenal!
“how much would you save if you no longer had to buy consolation prizes to reward yourself but instead got to glory every single ordinary day in the magic and grace that is always trying to catch up with you?”
I feel so blessed at having found you and your Wylde Women Wisdom!
This post resonates with the synchronicity I experienced when opening today’s (Aug. 27) Wylde Women Wisdom in my inbox. I shared it in a blog post linking to you.
http://artiphytheheart.typepad.com/artiphytheheart/2011/08/once-upon-a-time.html
My son goes back to school this week and I have been especially thoughtful about being present for the last few drops of summer pleasures with him.
They really are so simple: swimming, catching fireflies, and eating corn on the cob.
Earlier this week I said to Griffin, “Today I did something that you’ve been asking for for a long time {getting tickets to Disney World}. It’s what you say you want more than anything! Do you want to guess?” and he said, “You’re not going to work in the hospital any more?!”
It was a great reminder that he would rather me be around than any other “experience” or “thing.”
Thanks so much for this thoughtful and thought-provoking post!
every day can be magical, I agree with you Tammy!
I think we all need to take breaks from the normal… and often our creativity and most productive ideas unexpectedly come from the time we thought we were doing nothing!
We have somehow been on the same wavelength again this week! Great post!
Magie – writing a note to myself here. =] Need my own reminders now and then.
*sigh* you are so wise and beautiful, Tammy 🙂 love the artwork, and love the thought: “how much would you save if you no longer had to buy consolation prizes to reward yourself but instead got to glory every single ordinary day in the magic and grace that is always trying to catch up with you?”