Live!
(Dont wait for good things to happen!)
By: Jennifer Ross Sawyer, MA, LPC, NCC, Jennifer Ross Sawyer, Counseling and Consultation
He sat in my office, a new man. He pre-op weight was over 400, and now, he was feeling great, as the gastric bypass weight loss was occurring like magic.
Ill never forget what he said, and I want you to hear it too.
He said, I dont believe God put me in this position so that I could continue to sit on the couch with a remote in my hand.
He went on to tell me that he believed that his higher power was calling him to do something significant with his life.
He never felt worthy to do somehthing significant before.
Now his ideas were boundlessgo back to school, learn to play tennis, volunteer, help with support group, write a book, share his story with others, get involved in his church, and on and on.
Dont pass up the opportunity to really live.
A poem:
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosening my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as a seed goes to the next blossom, and that which came to me as a blossom, goes on as fruit.
-Dawna Markova-
Now. Go, live!
Jen
