Going through a Phase

Last night I watched West Side Story - a modern day musical adaptation of the classic Romeo & Juliet.  As would be expected the movie resonated with me; for us and some songs are included in the blog.


The movie was produced in my birth year - 1961!  But most importantly, she says the magic words:

I SEE YOU!


I was like; WoW!

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Stop Babbling

The Bible says the whole world had one language until the Tower of Babel was constructed. But then God confused language so groups of people could no longer understand one another. That’s where the word babble comes from.

The secret to really hearing someone is unity. Letting go of our agenda, and feeling the other person’s needs, allows us to hear truth between the lines.


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A Thought to Ponder from The Urantia Book

"...present-day mortals would experience less...warfare between the flesh and the spirit if they would enter the spirit kingdom, wherein the faith sons of God enjoy comparative deliverance from the slave-bondage of the flesh in the enlightened and liberating service of wholehearted devotion to doing the will of the Father in heaven." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Temporarily out of Balance

by Madisyn Taylor

The gift of going through a phase is that it will pass and you will come out the other side.

We are all almost always in the process of learning something new, developing an underused ability or talent, or toning down an overused one. Some of us are involved in learning how to speak up for ourselves, while others are learning how to be more considerate. In the process of becoming, we are always developing and fine tuning one or the other of our many qualities, and it is a natural part of this process that things tend to get out of balance. This may be upsetting to us, or the people around us, but we can trust that it’s a normal part of the work of self-development.

For example, we may go through a phase of needing to learn how to say no, as part of learning to set boundaries and take care of ourselves. During this time, we might say no to just about everything, as a way of practicing and exploring this ability. Like a child who learns a new word, we want to try out this new avenue of expression and empowerment as much as we can because it is new and exciting for us and we want to explore it fully. In this way, we are mastering a new skill, and eventually, as we integrate it into our overall identity, it will resume its position as one part of our balanced life.

In this process, we are overcompensating for a quality that was suppressed in our life, and the swinging of the pendulum from under-use to overuse serves to bring that quality into balance. Understanding what’s happening is a useful tool that helps us to be patient with the process. In the end, the pendulum settles comfortably in the center, restoring balance inside and out.

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