Lord, walk with me as I travel the various stages of life.
Feed me when I am helpless.
Protect me when I am weak.
Talk to me when I am lonely.
Bless me when I am in need of work and love.
Make me patient when progress is steady and consistent.
Make me impatient with mediocrity and madness.
Energize me with possibility.
When you determine the time is right, let me spread my wings like a butterfly and let me fly to the glory of God.
Free me Jesus from the prison of my mind. Free me from the fears that chain me from creativity.
Release me and I will praise your name with my mind, body and soul.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord we pray.
Amen."
((a prayer: written by Rev. Nicholas Hood, III;
Plymouth United Church of Christ; Detroit, MI))
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Usually I do not read my horoscopes, but if I do and they are actually corresponding with my wants and desires for my life, I simply smile and chuckle while reading. Well, today I picked up Shore magazine, a style and culture magazine for the Lake Michigan. As I read the "shorecast" I actually had to reread it because it was so accurate.
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Shorecast [scorpio]
KEYWORDS in August: High Tide.
Understand whom you are, where you are, and what you - and you alone- can do to turn the seaworthy craft you're on, around. Maximize your skill, your talent, your fearlessness. SUccess comes in over calm waters.
Sidestep: uninvited points-of-view
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Shorecast [scorpio]
KEYWORDS in September: The New Agenda
As it turns out, its your secret agenda. A personal favorite, this is where you plan your newest endeavors. Keen detail exists. And only the most trusted confidants are called in.
Sidestep: severe self-criticism when there's a lull in action.
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Wow - these horoscopes are actually almost frightening. I feel like God himself wrote them and placed them in my hand to read, on this day. And, as a matter of fact, he did, because everything is in divine order.
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These whole journey to Japan business is actually very calming for me. Though this is new turf, more than a new city, more than a new state - it is a new country, I am ready for the adventure. When I applied for this new job it was just little old me thinking "why not?" Well later on, people started asking me why. Of course, most of the time, I had my standard intellectual answer that was long and drawn out, true, but not the emotional/spiritual or mental reason I was going. When I applied for this job I prayed about it and I knew if God gave me this opportunity there was a reason I needed to go. Well, of course I got the job and still did not know the reason. Well ... I think Japan is going to be my rainbow. This entire summer and college, as a whole, if you will, has been a storm for me. As the summer comes to an end the hail gets bigger and hits hard, the lightning becomes brighter and more powerful and the thunder becomes louder and more voistrous. What is happening in my life? Did I do something wrong to someone? Am I missing something here? Well ... the more things happen, the calmer I become. The Lord is truly working in my life.
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It is time to embark on this journey ... figure out who Garnet really is and what she really wants. No, I am not putting an end to my seflessness, but I am chiming in on the SELF that is disregarded. Everything is pointing in my favor . . . why not listen, watch and take advantage. I am ready to find the happiness that I have been living for. I am ready to begin living for today, for now. I am ready to begin living for me.
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I once was a moth, possibly ... but for so long I have felt the butterfly within me and I have finally realized I am free to fly.
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love.
g.
