Transformation

I find it rather interesting that the Spirit@Work® Card that I drew was Transformation.  I just realized this week that the Spirit@Work® Cards are more effective and life changing for me if I apply them more to myself than the writing of the book, Footprints On My Soul.  They’ll be a part of me, and therefore a part of the book.

I have a feeling this is going to be an interesting few days … and life … with the card Transformation.  I feel all goose bumpy!

The very first paragraph proved to be interesting.  This sentence in particular:

They are born, live, and die, without ever pausing along the way to meet their Soul.

I immediately said out loud, “I am my Soul.  My Soul and I are one.”  I paused after writing this [in my journal] and felt how I feel about this.  There was a calmness that came over me.  A knowing that it is the truth of who I am.  I am my Soul.  It is not separate from me.

The last sentence of the first paragraph is:

The key to personal development and evolution lies not outside ourselves, but within.

Writing my book is not going to find peace and acceptance of my past simply by writing the book.  The peace and acceptance is only going to happen if I go deep and explore the cards on a personal, Soulful level.  That is where the lasting transformation occurs.  It’s possible that, except for a few of the cards that I’ve drawn, I’ve remained on the surface by only considering how I was writing the book and not how living it affected my Soul.  I’ve drifted away from the purpose of writing the book.  Soul may be in the title; it’s not in the book … yet.

Although these next sentences in the Spirit@Work® book were written with the thought of organizational transformation they can certainly be adjusted and applied to personal transformation.

If we inspire one person at a time, a group of these people will become a team.  If we inspire the team, a group of teams will become a community.  If we inspire groups of communities, one at a time, these groups of inspired communities will inspire the world.

From the poem:

Let me gently tap the wisdom of the Universe

That is locked within my Soul.

Patiently I allow my wakening.  Day by day,

A metamorphosis occurs within me.

And,

To share all that is beautiful in the Universe with the world around me.

I am transforming.

Surprisingly, I actually feel like I’m transforming.  I feel different than when I started the Higher Ground Leadership® Practicum.  I’m at the halfway point for the practicum and I’m experiencing both fear and optimism about who I will be when I come to the end.  I know that as I travel the second half of the journey that I will go even deeper into the meanings of the Spirit@Work® Cards that I draw and what they mean to my life.

As I write my book I’m already finding that I’m really questioning the motives behind the people in my childhood.  I often wonder if they had remorse.  Did they pray for forgiveness?  Were their actions uncontrollable even though they tried?  What happened to them in their lives that caused them to behave the way they did?  All of these questions, and so many more, come forward as I write.  It’s a deeper consideration of everyone in my childhood.  It’s almost comforting.

Yes … I am transforming!

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