Do you have the patience?
Aug 6th, 2010 Posted in Healthy Mama, Nurturing Mama | 2 comments »Lastnight I had a lovely talk with a friend in need of a listening ear as she moves into an exciting new clarity in her next life step. I find much joy in watching friends blossom in new directions, and this particular friend has been working towards this big new path for a very long time.
Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?” ~ Lao-tzu
This quote arrived in my inbox last night from Meghan Rathwell (who also inspired this great post on new motherhood and donated a fabulous prize for our Virtual Retreat this Spring). Perfect Timing.
One of the things I love about the experience of a Mama Renew group is the way we have room to explore our assumptions about what our lives are “supposed” to look like. Often we see women asking daring questions, revealing seldom declared life dreams, and feeling a healthy dose of optimism and creativity.
Reaching clear discernment is not a simple task. Most of us enjoy many, many long discussions full of questions and worries and that wonderful query “What if…?” In a post last May we wrote:
And yet every once in a while, we ourselves, or someone we love, takes the leap and says Yes, somehow moving beyond the world of being sensible.
What is it that allows us to move from “what if…” to “I can”? As mothers I suspect that the patience for clarity is sometimes harder. We cannot separate our own life decisions from those of our life as a family, and this can create some considerably thick mud to wade through!
Eventually, however, there is indeed a moment of clarity, and it is very much this feeling of the mud and the muck and the questions and worries and doubts all settling to the ground (even if for only a few moments) and everything is crystal clear. It is not a moment we can create or plan for. Clarity simply arrives, often in a profoundly understated and simple way. And then we take the first new and exciting steps forward 
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We’d love to hear from some of you – How do you know when something is right? Where do you feel it in your body? What would you like to say Yes to?
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