Crossing the Threshold

Standing on an edge, we can feel our hearts race. Our mind calculates several pros and cons of what to do next. Maybe our breath quickens and palms sweat as we contemplate what it takes to move ahead upon our path. We work hard to plant our intentions and cultivate our dreams. It is not easy to create the change we wish to experience. It takes a lot of time, effort, and dedication to tend to our inner flame. When we do nourish ourselves, the chance to succeed may be within our reach. We may or may not receive our desired intention. However, I believe there can be an achievement gained when we offer ourselves the space for the possibility of success. When we believe in ourselves enough to take the step forward, we break free from what we know and step into the unknown. It doesn’t matter how big the dream is. The important piece is that we try something new as we move out of an outdated thought pattern and leave our comfort zone so we can try to create something that is different and new. In that moment, we step up to the edge, to the doorway of a new opportunity and dare to cross the threshold of what can be.

Initiating the spark to create the change we desire is not an easy thing to do. To walk a new path can be scary, especially when we step out of our own shadow and into a light that we only dreamed of. We can feel like a stranger in a strange land or we can embrace our own being and explore our new worlds. Anytime we create change or slough off our old skin, we can feel vulnerable and unsure. That is a natural response and why it’s important to move with care, gentleness, and grace for ourselves. Sometimes there are so many butterflies in our belly that they can feel like pterodactyls! If that’s the case, how do you respond? Do you stop in your tracks to recalculate your plan or do you work with them for the courage to take one more step forward? Every person and situation are different. You are the only one who can answer those questions. Like everything else on this evolutionary path, we live, reflect, and hopefully learn from our experiences.  

As we stand in the heat of late summer, we move towards the threshold of our dreams that are hopefully ripening from green to gold and from flower to fruit. Do you reach out to them and pluck them or does a wave of uncertainly wash over you? Does the heat from the summer sun feed your inner flame or does it burn you out? Is the warm breath of life offering your heart and mind inspiration and wisdom or are you drying out? What do you need on this hot summer day? Are you ready to move forward with your plans of a new day or are you tangled in knots of overthinking and caught up in too many details? Take some time if you can today to reflect on where you are at this moment in time. How do you feel? What do you dream? What do you know? How will you move if you choose? What will you do if you stay where you are? Where are you in relation to the threshold of your dreams? Do you need more time or are you ready to cross the threshold and birth them into reality? What does your heart say?

Be well and take the time to nourish yourself.

Renee Bedard

The Whispering Crow