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RISING WOMEN EXPERT
ADVICE...
I have always
wondered about my mission in life. What is it?
Everyone comes into life with a purpose, and so has the competence to
fulfill it. It would make no sense to have a purpose without the ability to
enact it. Often the purpose is forgotten, but the ability remains and is
used in other areas, sometimes causing more pain than pleasure, when the
ability is misunderstood or misplaced. While everyone has many abilities,
there is always one most dominant.
You think talents and abilities are something you learn, and yes, that is
partly true, but some are natural, inborn, inherent. One example is the
innate ability to love. Have you ever thought it may be more than ability,
but your true purpose and mission in life? Ask what is the one thing you
have been searching for that has been so elusive? The thing you’ve wanted
most? Is it not love?
Everyone wants love, but sometimes a person appears who holds that essence
so strongly, so steadfastly, that it over sweeps all else. And that someone
may be you. Love may have dominated your life in the longing for it, the
seeking for it, the cry for it from parents, teachers, friends or spouses,
but it never manifested to the degree that you wanted or needed it. Yet
intuitively, internally, you knew the true meaning and power of love. You
knew it was your purpose and mission.
Are you prepared now to let that purpose come forward? To be the love, to
live the love? You are a teacher, and really everyone is, but the multiple
tasks of a teacher can obscure the central aim.
The entire teaching experience can be characterized as an exercise in love.
And when something is wrong, applying love to the problem will invariably
solve it (or dissolve it as a problem). A teacher who dislikes herself, her
own subject matter, the room she is in, the assignments she gives, the
penalties she devises, is encountering a problem of affection. No matter the
difficulty, the solution is always the same. If you are loving, you will
treat students and colleagues with respect. If you are loving, you will
settle for nothing but absolute fairness in assessment, tempered always by
kindness. You will help whenever you hear a call for help.
As Sai Baba said, “Develop love, and you don’t need to develop anything
else.”
Larry Wayne is a spiritual healer, teacher & life coach. You can contact
Larry at New Hope Healing Center at 403.255.2273 or
www.thespiritualpathfinder.com to learn more about his services &
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