Audrey Wegner

Imagine your life transformation launching in 2010!

Is this the year you plan on coming out of hibernation?  Are you waiting for a wakeup call to start living the life God intended for you?  There are clouds of witnesses watching and looking forward to the day we come out of our sleep to see ourselves the way God sees us.

Years ago, I knew someone personally who actually lived in Turkey for a time.  While he was there, he became involved with someone of royalty who was actually a Princess in real life.

He described to me how beautiful she was and how refined. Her affluence was staggering. She literally had everything a man could possibly desire. She fell in love with him and desired that he marry her. She saw in him a potential for greatness and believed him to be everything she had ever wanted in a man.

However, no amount of coaxing helped build his self esteem or bolster his lack of confidence to follow through with the marriage.  He told me he felt so unworthy of her grandeur and accolades.  Ultimately, he moved away from that city and left her. He never believed he could measure up, so it was easier for him to walk away than deal with his expectations of failure.

How many times in your life have you experienced the “Princess and the Pauper” scenario, where some empowering person saw your true gifts and you chose to remain in disbelief, unsure you would ever succeed?

Have we all been so busy watching the performance of everyone else  that we have forgotten to turn our attention to our own personal growth? I realized recently how distracted I have become doing this very thing!

See others as a mirror for yourself and your own growth.  Are you willing to consider that the very tendencies that bother you most about the people who are in your life right now are actually the very same habits that you do in a slightly different way?  It’s ALL about us, not them!

It is kinda like a big bear in hibernation and me with a sand spur, poking its paw and saying, “Hey! Come on over here! Isn’t this exciting?  And look at this! You should consider doing this or that!” In reality, they may not be done hibernating.  Leave them alone.

It is not our call when someone decides to step into their God intended Greatness. The biggest gift we can possibly give another is our inner commitment to hold that space open for them in our hearts. Release them to arrive at their destination when they are ready, if ever at all. Simply love them unconditionally, just the way they are, without judgment.

Let’s begin by acknowledging ourselves. Look in the mirror, right into your own eyes. Tell yourself how much you love and appreciate yourself just the way you are in this moment.

Smile at yourself and feel pleased about something you did that made you happy.  Carry that feeling forward into the rest of your day.  Watch how others begin to respond to you differently than before.

The feeling of joy is one of God’s most precious gifts.  We just must decide to evoke the feeling and begin to participate.  Wake up.  Start living and stop worrying.  Embrace life.  There’s no better time than NOW!

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