Boxes strewn across the landscape of life. Some are works of meticulously wrapped art while others are haphazardly assembled with way too much tape. Most are somewhere in-between. Do we dare open the gifts?
Perhaps we step timidly toward a gift and carefully open it. We are eager to discover the contents yet cannot bring our self to destroy the wrapping! We may be apprehensive about what is inside and give it a shake or three. At other times we courageously bounce to the gift and tear off the paper. We are sure what is inside is exactly what we want. We may be wrong.
Each moment of everyday is a gift. Although we may desperately wish otherwise, at times, the gift might not be what we want. It may fill us with angst, trigger suffering. In those moments we have a choice. We can cast aside the gift in anger or we can allow the plethora of emotions resulting from the gift to wash over us. We realize that these waves of emotion are not meant to overwhelm but to raise awareness.
This awareness shines light on the purpose of the gift. In this light we wonder: What can we learn as we absorb the gift into our being? How does it shape the person we are becoming — the one who slumbers in the core of our being? To find those answers we daringly dig into the box. We discover that some of the answers to these ponderings are much more difficult to hear than others. Some messages, once heard, while difficult to ignore, are even more difficult to assimilate.
But, one way or another, we assimilate the gifts into our life. Sometimes we just need to open several boxes finding the same rejected gift before we learn. At some point we recognize that the gift is not going away. We either accept what it teaches us or create an endless cycle of suffering.
There is always of choice of how we use these gift-building blocks to grow into our best self. At one end of the spectrum is joyfully; at the other is bitterly. We can become bitter at the difficulties present in some of the gifts or we can find joy in the lesson they teach us. With joy, we activate the possibilities by shining our light regardless of our experience.
For each gift is a challenge. To meet the challenge we live from our soul, act from our heart, and share our presence. In doing so, we reveal our wonder to the world. That this the true gift — seeing our life as not good or bad or indifferent, but opportunity to discover the authentic spark within.
With acceptance, our spark jumps from gift to gift. We become the person we have been all along. For within each gift. be it emanating suffering or happiness, gives up the opportunity to being our personal best. We share our personal best, our gift, to the world as a pollinator of peace, a carrier of compassion, and a grower of gratitude.
What gift made the most profound difference in your life?
Vanessa F. Hurst, ms, is a Life Coach through Intuitive Connection, professional speaker, and author who weaves her inner wisdom into all she touches. Her books are available @ www.wildefyrpress.com. Contact Vanessa @ for life coaching, keynotes, programs, and intuitive consultations.
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