What is in YOUR genes?
Lifes golden season should be golden right? To say it’s golden means it’s very desirable or marked by peace, prosperity, and often creativeness.
Let me be clear, the words season and golden have nothing to do with your age. It has everything to do with the lenses through which you see your life as it unfolds. If each moment is considered golden, we inevitably create a golden season.
A very good friend inspired today’s blog. It was her relentless bubbly attitude that made the path to her recently perfect planned outside wedding on a beautiful hillside that overlooks our city. We ended the evening listening to the band play while using the God-painted sunset as a canvas for their background. It was truly a golden moment for all involved. She unselfishly created that moment to share herself and her golden moment with the rest of us. It touches my soul deeply when someone wholly shares such a sacred time of their journey.
My friend is that rare person who always sees the glass half full. However, I’ve known her long enough to know that some of her life events could have easily emptied that glass if she had let it.
I sat on the deck this morning enjoying the sunrise and listening to the birds as they beckoned each other to WAKE UP! With my favorite cup of coffee in hand, I pondered the following thoughts about us humans.
..Why do some see the glass half full?
..Why do some see the glass half empty?
..Why do some not even consider a glass at all?
..Why do some of us live so fast we bypass the golden moments?
..Why do others live ONLY for the golden moments?
We all have the same hours in the day, the same options available to us, and the same world to contend with. Yet life can quickly get messy and difficult. We all have hard situations to overcome that hopefully refine us and make us stronger. Life is going to happen no matter what right?
BUT what if there is something in our genes we haven’t considered? What if we just haven’t accessed the very thing that will catapult us to the new endeavor our soul is seeking? The endeavor that wakes up creativity, purpose, and wholeness.
I began to think about my own Grandpa. Born in Ireland in 1856, he came to the United States at 15 years of age.
He died at 93 with a legacy of written poetry, articles, and speeches. He was a known speaker on the religious circuit for his time and became a writer for several printed tabloids. It doesn’t take long to hear the depth of his thoughts in his archives. Penning his thoughts brought him to his predestined purpose. He was recorded by a local radio station in 1943 at the age of 87 preaching to his small church congregation in Arkansas. My only connection with him is that audio. It was the sound of his voice that threw a flame on something deep inside of my spirit that I couldn’t explain. I simply knew something deep within me had been awakened.
No doubt life wasn’t always golden for my grandpa. However, he scripted some exquisite golden moments during his 93 years on this earth. Even though I never met my Grandpa , I would have to assume his glass was half full most of the time.
Was it predetermined before the beginning of time that I would “inherit’ the desire for writing? Could I have possibly tapped into the waiting well of his influential legacy much earlier in life?
I certainly do not know the answer to those questions but I do know this…just the simple awareness that came from a look back at the family genes has encouraged me to journey on and see where it leads. Many times our influence has a greater impact after we leave this earth. Either way, a legacy of golden moments is more important than actual gold.
The world is influenced by both joy or heartache, peace or violence. We have the choice of which way we will be used.
During my friend’s wedding reception, I saw a group of folks gathered around her mother and aunt. They were both sitting in wheelchairs entertaining the guests with their contagious joy and laughter. It was easy to see WHY my friend always sees the glass half full. The living proof was right there in front of us!
I leave you with this encouragement. Ask yourself those above questions and decide how you see the glass. Decide how you detect the golden moments. Maybe a change is in order after you determine the answers. Either way, take a quick look back at the genes you received through no fault of your own and inspect how they may have influenced your journey so far. And by all means
Enjoy the Journey-VB
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I was so awed and inspired by this book. The author, Victoria Bragg, created a special book to truly help us pull out of the darkness and look @’the light and seek wholeness on a Godly plane. I felt as if Victoria was holding my hand and telling me it is okay to go seek real life!
I look forward to more of her pages. It deeply helped my soul.
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