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Got this email from my mom this morning. Yesterday, we met for lunch at Cracker Barrel on her‘way’ back from Canton, where she goes to get wood crosses to make her amazing cross creations. She’s an artist at heart and I love that I grew up with that influence. We’ve been SEARCHING for MONTHS for the new magazine, Where Women Create, as we positively are ADDICTED to certain artists! Sally Jean, Mary Jane Butters, Jo Packham, and others. Not exactly sure WHY we were searching since it seems it is everywhere now that I spied the first two issues at one of my ab-fab-fav stores in McKinney – 120! I want to share my mom’s sweet, practical observation… and it is so fitting because we talked about the power of a dream on Queen of Dreams Radio last night, and in the first two issues of this AMAZING magazine, Jo Packham wrote tremendously inspiring letters about CREATING YOUR OWN DREAM.
Thank you for finding the Where Women Create books I am about to go blind reading them. How about that Sally Jean and Mary Jane Butters….the message they all seem to have isn’t really new though is it? Dream it and get up and do it!! I’m going to e-mail them and ask how quick they can get K.C. Willis in this magazine….life will be perfect then. – LOVE MOM
One of the things I love most about my mom is she doesn’t ‘over think’ things. She’s simple. It’s the simple things that make her happiest. Like a magazine, full of inspirational art and musings…and seeing the truth behind it all.
Thanks Mom!
My first experience with a horse was scary. Sitting on this remarkable creature, I felt ill-equipped to ‘control’ this massive beast underneath me. Sure enough, barely a few hundred yards down the road, the horse started side-stepping down into the ravine that was at least four or five feet below the gravel road. My friend Shelli, who grew up around horses stayed calm saying, “Just lead him up to the road again.” I was terrified of falling off, and it seemed that was all I could focus on. I just wanted OFF that horse. I ended up somehow directing him up to the road and then immediately got off so I could be ‘safe.’
Now… nearly 30 years later, I see that moment as a lesson in trust. Last week, on the show, we talked about finding the Truth within. Trust is a big part of finding the Truth. That horse knew I didn’t trust him, and he showed me as much.
In the September 2006 Cowboys & Indians magazine (am doing some collage art and was looking for some cool images in a stack of mags mom gave me), I read an article by Wolf Schneider called Saving the Mustangs. Did you know there are about 32,000 wild mustangs just in the southwest?
As I wondered about trust and how we can build trust within ourselves and also in God (yes, I wonder about such stuff while doing projects), I found this article about horses and how people ‘tame’ wild horses. Sharron Evans, the horse owner chronicled in the article says… “It’s speaking their language. No roping, no force. It’s all meant to be the horse’s choice while still establishing your dominance.” It struck me that our relationship with God can be like that. God shows us… guides us… and yet it is our choice what we choose.
Then Evans says in response to the question, ‘How much harder is it than training any other horse?’ “It starts off slower than with a domestic horse. But you take your time and learn your stuff, and once the horse trusts you, it goes faster than with a domestic horse. Because they’ve already given you their trust, now it’s just a matter of communication for them to know what it is you want.” This reminded me of trusting fully… the more fully we trust, the faster our connection with the Creator, and the easier things go. God supports us in what we are creating, and in the process we gain the opportunity to trust more and more.
I woke up this morning with this quote in my mind. Gandhi shared this with the world so long ago, and I wondered why I woke up with it. Maybe it was because last night, while meditating right before going to sleep, I asked about how I could be myself and help others be themselves, too.
For a long time I’ve been aware of this feeling of wanting to ‘fit in’ somewhere, but never feeling like anything quite fit. In some groups it has felt distinct… like there was an invisible barrier up, and in others it just didn’t feel right.
I thought of people I know who share this same sense. Not in a bad way, as in “I don’t belong” or “You don’t belong here” … more in a way of… “Where do I belong?”
I am happy where I am, happy with my life, and yet I sense there’s a community out there to which I am gravitating toward. In the last couple of months it has felt like the flood gates have opened for souls who are a ‘fit.’ The conversations are easy… the time flies… the energy flows. It feels good.
So… my wondering today… What change do I wish to see in the world? Hmmm….good question.
