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My word for this time in my life is "courage." It takes so much of it to live each day. Courage is not the absence of pain, but the ability to recognize it and allow it to flow as profoundly as it needs to. Every day seems to be an act of courage. Get up, move forward. Just put one foot in front of the other. That is enough for now. In time courage begets courage and grows strong and fierce. Fear begins to cower in its presence and pain never needs to hide. Courage is really trust. At times I wanted to lay on the couch and stare at the ceiling all day or allow myself to fall into the deepest darkest pit and sometimes that is what was needed, but courage will move out into the black not not knowing what is there or if it will lead you into any light at all. It just steps out because it trusts. ~But courage isn’t about being fearless— it’s about feeling your fear and stepping out~ http://cindyweaver2015.blogspot.com/
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I move through the world as a warrior now. Stronger and more courageous than I have ever been, but I am also deeply wounded. Sometimes I stop and address my wounds, other times I have to keep moving or I know I will die. A warrior is someone who has to be strong, courageous and brave in the face of deep challenge; A warrior does not know how it’s going to play out, but pushes forward in the face of uncertainty. The warrior hurts but continues to fight in order to get to a better place. The alternative to not being a warrior is to be consumed by the challenge. According to Guy Finley in his article,The Ten Traits of the True Spiritual Warrior, a warrior never postpones a battle that must be engaged. the true spiritual warrior is never afraid to look at what he doesn’t want to see. The true spiritual warrior knows that the path of spiritual liberation that he has chosen must lead him to one encounter after another with conditions that always seem greater than he is. http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/lettinggo/2010/07/the-ten-traits-of-the-true-spiritual-w http://cindyweaver2015.blogspot.com/
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I feel like I'm entering a new stage, a new time. I feel immobilized on one level and functional on another. I think I am withdrawing a little more as a realize what a solo journey from tragedy to transformation it is. It is not for lack of loving family and friends, it is just the need to resolve my own loss. I dream about people dying and being at Chloe's service, feeling very sad. It is almost as though the reality of the magnitude of the loss is very sharp now. I am feeling things about her death that I could not feel in those first days. I can see it all, and with that comes a new wave of grief. And yet, I can feel moments of light and life. I look the same on the the outside, but my foundation is tilted. Inside there is that stream of sorrow and processing where I'm at and who I am, what planet I've landed on and how to accept and adapt to it. I find a greater weariness from the work I am doing. But I have hope and courage that I will find my way. "May I be at peace. May my heart remain open. May I know the beauty of my own true nature. May I be healed." -Joan Borysenko, Fire in the Soul http://cindyweaver2015.blogspot.com/
