Did someone let you soar too?
The morning after I dropped off my freshman daughter at college, I attended a women’s group comprised of multi-generational women. We were asked what brought us joy and every response seemed to bring comfort and warmth to the crisp early morning autumn air filling the room. As each woman answered, responses seemed to build upon the next as the sharing flowed around the circle. Many shared that family and grandchildren brought them joy. One woman spoke of how fast her 13-year-old daughter was growing up. I instantly teared up as my tender heart was processing waking up in my house that morning without my daughter under my roof for the first time and how it seemed like just yesterday my college-aged daughter was awkwardly trudging her way through her teenage years.
After the meeting, I shared my experience of the past 24 hours, including the drive to college, move-in and the 1am home arrival with a woman who had already launched her children and who now had grandchildren of her own. She comforted me and said, “Oh yes, I remember launching them and letting them soar. It’s wonderful and it’s tough. But… someone let me soar so that’s what we need to do too, I guess.”
And then just like that, my heart didn’t seem to feel so tender anymore.
What transformed my heart in an instant was her use of the word "soar".
She didn’t say leave home, leap, or simply "leave the nest".
She said, “Soar…”
Soaring brings you to great heights, effortlessly and swiftly, with very little effort.
Soaring is majestic and powerful.
Soaring helps you to rise above the trivial components of the world.
Soaring offers us a broader view where we can map out how to land at our desired location.
We are all designed to and deserve to soar.
How are you soaring through life? How can you allow someone else to soar through theirs?
What is weighting you down that is preventing you from soaring?
It is often our attachments to the way things must be that keeps us from soaring without realizing there are infinite possibilities and outcomes for situations and our lives.
Life is not black and white.
Life has a multitude of ways of working itself out. Tomorrow you could meet the person that shifts your entire career or the friend that fills your heart. It is in trusting that you are designed to soar that you will gather up the faith necessary to triumph through whatever challenge you are facing today.
Soar instead of leap
Triumph instead of simply "making it through"
Feeling down and frustrated? Choose a different word that speaks your life into existence and watch how quickly the life of your dreams begins to materialize.
Uplevel your verb and watch how fast you begin to soar.
Join me for this week’s meditation, Soaring through life- removing life’s obstacles meditation and begin to remove the obstacles that are holding you back from soaring today.
So that you too can raise up and soar into a life that is abundant and filled with blessings each and every day. Expect to soar and you will.
Much love,
Erin