I have a meditation book for "Women who do too much" by Anne Wilson Schaef and for the 1st October page I felt a resonance.
AWARENESS OF PROCESS/COMMITMENT STEP THREE
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. - Lillian Smith
There once was a woman who said that she experienced the idea of Living in Process as akin to jumping off a cliff. Sometimes after making that statement she related a dream in which she had come to the edge of a cliff and was aware of being very fearful of something coming up behind her. In the dream, she felt that she had only one positive choice - to jump off the cliff, which she did with great terror. Suddenly she was a aware of a wonderful floating feeling. She opened her eyes and realised that her skirt had become a parachute; she was safe and floating comfortably.
"Leaving the future open" may be one of the most important commitments we make with our lives. Believing in something no yet proved may just be believing in ourselves.
We never know what will make good parachutes. When one is leaving the future open, it helps to know that there are parachutes not of our making in our lives.
I feel my healing coats/clothes and shroud making/shroud mementos are a small part of my future and the rest is wide open. WOW!
I am now changing my path and energies to healing in my Arts practice. I have been surrounded by textiles from a very young age. I find myself utilising all of my creative skills over the last 40yrs into making these Wearable Art "Of the Essence" Coats which have been put together with love, essence and colour to help the wearer to become attuned to their inner self and to help them on their life journey.
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