Biting into life…
These past few days, I’ve been thinking a bit about what could be a new beginning.
Does it have to be the complete end of a season?
How can we travel from one chapter of our life to another and still keep learning from the things we’ve learned through the previous episodes?
How can we make sure we are ready to move on, leaving behind only memories, no regrets, looking ahead being open to a complete redefinition of what we thought we had, were and desired.
Being open… I guess this is the one thing I want to try for real.
Being willing to walk in my life as light as possible, my hands not only opened but lifted toward the sky ready to be thankful and to seize upon all relationships as they are, moments as they are, opportunities as they are… esteeming everything highly, as they are, not trying to control them in order to see them evolve according to my own desires or blurred visions.
I have to say, it’s nothing natural or easy as my nature is to listen to the things which make me sad, to give power to what hurts me, to crawl down and let everyone know I’m a victim so no one can blame me, no one can tell me I’m responsible… as if the book of my life is being written but I don’t hold the pen. But who wants to be a minor character in the book of their life? Not me.
So I choose to walk, no step is lightly considered, each of them defining the assurance with which I live, what trail I leave behind and what legacy I build.
Maybe it’s not so important to have the knowledge about life and its course… Maybe I should eat from a different tree, one that gives life instead of knowledge.
Biting into life… with all its bitter or sweet flavors, soft or harsh textures… always nourishing, strengthening… biting into life, grasping the occasion to share the delights and taking the blessing of sharing also about the times that are sour, burning or disappointing… who knows when we need someone to help us heal or what beauty can bloom from sharing the intimacy of fighting through side by side.
I’m proud to bite into my new season of life and to look in your eyes as you bite into your own.
I love you
-Miss Isabel
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Heather
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Hey Sweet Sis!
How are you doing? I hope that you are doing great!
I don’t want to be a minor character either, I know that we were all put here to make our mark, leave a legacy. God supplied us with gifts and talents to be shared and help to build His kingdom. It reminds of the scripture in the book of 2nd Timothy 1:7. We need to take our talents, and gifts and reach towards our dream. Sure there will be obstacles put in our path to test us, to challenge us to see if we are ready to be taken a step forward, and we must do this with our faith strong, knowing that we’ll get there in time.
We are surrounded by family to help us along the way, and to encourage and support one another! I think that there is no benefit to allowing the enemy to keep holding us from what we know in our hearts that we can do, to keep focused no matter what may try to discourage us from experiencing the life God wants for each person to have. I know there have been “dark moments,” but we must chose to overcome them. I am very thankful to God for all of you, and I say my prayers each day and night. I love Alex,xoxoxox, very much, and send love to all always!
I thank you for your words of encouragement, Sister Miss Isabel, and you touch so many with your words each week!
love from your sis, Heather
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Mune
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Hello sis as always Elizabeth says it perfectly even though i am busy with moving i am still taking the time out to read your blogs
love always Mune XOXOXOX
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Danielle
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Hey Miss Isabel!!! 🙂
a new beginning, i need that to!
to answer you “Does it have to be the complete end of a season?” No it doesn’t have to be a complete end of a season, Some people make it end. YOU don’t have to make it end if you don’t feel that it needs to be. It’s YOUR book. YOUR LIFE, It’s YOU have to do what you have to do!!!
How can we travel from one chapter of our life to another and still keep learning from the things we’ve learned through the previous episodes? That’s a very good question. As for me i’m still trying to figure that out!!! So yeah you are not the only one who doesn’t know.
All i know is that i am new to all and to being open!!!
you are amazing my sis!!! 🙂
why don’t You want to write Your own book??? That You have to be careful, You may hand the pen to the wrong person and will lead you to bad!!! Just like me.
or maybe a tree with some knowledge but has a lot of life!!! 🙂 Because you need the knowledge to continue to your journey.
your words amaze me every time!!! 🙂 It’s loving and amazing and true. If it wasn’t it wouldn’t been written.
i am proud of you on looking into your eyes as your biting in your life, As i’m trying to bite into mine but can’t seem to reach it, To taste how good or if it’s sour, I Don’t Know!!!
I LOVE YOU MY SIS❤❤❤ 🙂
xxxYour Sis, Danielle
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Elizabeth
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Hi dearest Isa!!!
What powerful imagery!! – eating from the fruit of a tree that gives life rather than one that yields merely knowledge..not “demanding” to know (and through that imagined knowledge, control..) our own destinies and the journey of our existence.. Recently I’ve been studying the words of a wonderful man whose spirituality crosses many boundaries and finds union with other hearts seeking the very Source of Life. His name is Thomas Merton and this is a prayer attributed to him – I thought it might be meaningful to you and others who read these comments, so I’m going to copy it here:
Thomas Merton’s prayer of Abandonment
“My Lord God, I have no idea where i am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that i am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you and I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.
And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road although I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
Somehow, your blog reminds me of the spirit of those words. And as you say, I am very very sure that every experience that touches us as we walk through this world becomes part of the fabric of our being, affecting the way we perceive and live every step that follows it. I agree with you that an open and thankful view upon life and all of those around us can open up wondrous vistas and precious opportunities for hope and beauty and love in every moment – like a veil lifted, revealing a new dawn – again and again and on deeper and deeper levels.
Thank you again dear isabel, for your faithfulness to the call you feel in your heart – I am one of the many blessed beyond all measure by your daily answer to that call..
love and prayers always!!! I believe in you!! mom e
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