Come Alive

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman

 Have you ever asked yourself what makes you come alive? Have you ever seriously considered it? What brings you joy? What energizes you?

Think back to your childhood, dreaming about who you want to be when you grow up. How many of us stop asking those questions along the way – beacue life and responsibilities and expections got in the way? pretty soon you blink your eyes and too much of life is behind you and you then ask the question Is this all there is?

Both of us have shared with each other how we keep our emotions in check, rarely showing them to others, really crying. But both if us, interestingly enough, shared how we can’t tell you the number of conversations we’ve both had with people who are not being who they have been created to be, people’s who’s jobs or marriages or life trajectory has found themselves in circumstances that rob them of enthusiasm or wonder or joy – discontent, restless. We too have been there ourselves. They feel as if they cannot change that trajectory, that nothing can be done.The world can bea scary place. A difficult place. A lonely place.

 We are constantly invited to be who we are. Henry David Thoreau