Thursday 12 January 2012

Children are mirrors of who we are meant to be


When I picked my children up from school the other afternoon I apologised to them both for snapping at them in the morning. And to my relief they had forgotten all about the morning and instead had forgiven me the moment I drove off. An invaluable lesson in staying in the flow and letting go of the past. A reminder as seen through children’s eyes, we are reborn not just every day but every second, every minute, every hour of the day.
We can choose to hold on to anger, frustration, anxiety if we like but all that does is cause resentment and resentment seeps into our souls like dark tendrils invading all of our places of joy and replacing them with negative energy. It is so easy for us to accept the negative because as Marianne Williamson says, “It is not our darkness we are afraid of, it is our light.”
When we see the light there is nothing obscuring our vision and it becomes up to all of us to pave our way forth and sometimes that’s hard to do. It's much easier to blame someone or something else for our shortcomings than to accept we are responsible for them. Confronting our own darkness can be frightening because it takes a lot of strength and self confidence to admit we need to work on certain aspects of ourselves. It takes strength and will to know that we are the reason why we are in the position we are, no one or nothing can make us feel the way we do. Only we can.
That's why children are always growing, exploring, dreaming because they have no real perception of the past and they rarely think of the future. They are present moment beings because they embrace life. We as adults can learn so much from our children because they are the mirrors of who we are meant to be. Children are there to remind us everyday just by being themselves of how free life can be. How free we can be because they just keep moving forward. And so can we.

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