The greatest service i can offer is ....freeing myself
to live freely.
Have you ever watched small children playing alone in a room? They will talk to themselves, and they will answer. They will dress themselves up. They sing and dance. A small child in a room all alone can have a marvelous time entertaining himself. Children can do this not only because they have an innocence that helps them to rise above the cares of the world; they don't mind being alone with their thoughts and their dreams. They don't mind acting out their fantasies. They can live their lives beyond the expectations of others. In a room all alone, children have no inhibitions. They have nothing to prove and no one to satisfy but themselves. They feel free! They are unencumbered by opinions and directives. It happens because nobody is watching them.
Live your life like nobody is watching you. Live beyond expectations. Live beyond what you have been told is right, wrong, good or bad. Just for one day, live like you are totally free to be anything and do anything you choose for yourself. Live from your innocence. Live from a sense of total satisfaction with who you are and what you have available to you. Let yourself dream like nobody can stop you. Let yourself sing like noboody is listening. Let yourself dance like nobody is watching. Play dress up! Talk to yourself! Tell yourself something that you would never repeat aloud. Let yourself be exactly who you are and live like it is okay-because it really is.
until today, you may have been living your life under the impression that your every move is being watched. you may have felt like there are certain things you could not and should not do. Just for today, allow yourself the childlike freedom of talking to yourself, dancing with yourself and living your life like nobody else in the world cares or is watching what you are doing.
Today I am going to live my life like nobody is watching me.
iyanla vanzant
until today
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Vanzant Is Back! (Excerpts from "Until Today")
I AM NOW WILING TO FORGIVE MYSELF....FOR TAKING ON MORE THAN IS NECESSARY OR REQUIRED FOR ME TO TAKE ON.
It is quite possible that you may be working so hard not to do worse, that you are actually missing out on the opportunity to do better. Or maybe, just maybe you are so caught up in what someone else may be thinking about that you are not thinking for yourself. Whenever this is the case, you are going to stay exactly where you are, doing exactly what you are doing-no worse! No better! If this is your case, you may need to call on "grace."
Grace can catch you before you fall and pick you up if you do. Grace is so powerful and sufficient that even when you don't know what to do, grace is your insurance that whatever you do will be better then what you did! Grace will close your eyes to what you don't need to see and open your eyes to things that only you can see. Grace will close your ears to what everyone is saying while she opens your heart to what God has to say that only you need to hear. You see, Grace knows that there are some things just for you. Grace wants you to have those things. Grace, however, can only give you what you are willing to have. In other words, she will only come when you call on her. And by he way, Grace always brings her sisters, Hope and Mercy.
Grace, Hope and Mercy will do for you what you cannot do, have not been able to do, do not know how to do. Grace, Hope and Mercy will go where you are afraid to go. They will show you what you are afraid to see. The good thing about calling on Grace, Hope and Mercy is that eventually when you come to realize that you don't have to do do everything alone.
UNTIL TODAY........you may not have realized the presence of Grace in your life. JUST FOR TODAY..call on Grace to work through you. And please, try not to tell her what to do. Women really don't like that.
today i am devoted to acknoknowledging and accepting the power of God's grace in every aspect of my life.
more to come this evening...
1. the need to be right, forgive yourself
2. making it through the rough times and tight places
stayed tuned......
It is quite possible that you may be working so hard not to do worse, that you are actually missing out on the opportunity to do better. Or maybe, just maybe you are so caught up in what someone else may be thinking about that you are not thinking for yourself. Whenever this is the case, you are going to stay exactly where you are, doing exactly what you are doing-no worse! No better! If this is your case, you may need to call on "grace."
Grace can catch you before you fall and pick you up if you do. Grace is so powerful and sufficient that even when you don't know what to do, grace is your insurance that whatever you do will be better then what you did! Grace will close your eyes to what you don't need to see and open your eyes to things that only you can see. Grace will close your ears to what everyone is saying while she opens your heart to what God has to say that only you need to hear. You see, Grace knows that there are some things just for you. Grace wants you to have those things. Grace, however, can only give you what you are willing to have. In other words, she will only come when you call on her. And by he way, Grace always brings her sisters, Hope and Mercy.
Grace, Hope and Mercy will do for you what you cannot do, have not been able to do, do not know how to do. Grace, Hope and Mercy will go where you are afraid to go. They will show you what you are afraid to see. The good thing about calling on Grace, Hope and Mercy is that eventually when you come to realize that you don't have to do do everything alone.
UNTIL TODAY........you may not have realized the presence of Grace in your life. JUST FOR TODAY..call on Grace to work through you. And please, try not to tell her what to do. Women really don't like that.
today i am devoted to acknoknowledging and accepting the power of God's grace in every aspect of my life.
more to come this evening...
1. the need to be right, forgive yourself
2. making it through the rough times and tight places
stayed tuned......
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