My
partner and I almost always have a date on any given Friday night and as the
evening flows along to that inaugural refreshment, no matter what it may be, we
sip not until we toast it between us with “Cheers” as we look intentionally
into each other’s eyes and not upon the cup or glass—to meet just there in the
now—in that moment—greeting each other’s most grateful company. Sappy? Perhaps.
But that
eyeful ritual matters to both of us. It squares us up to purposeful
acknowledgement in our presence of each of us, together.
I’m doing
what my intuition tells me is right. I’m pretty sure this “G-force” in my life
would agree that’s he doing the same.
I doubt
either of us ever will go back to the old way of looking at the glass first.
Onward to
other thoughts.
“When you
don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to
do.”
Oprah
Winfrey offered this advice to graduates at Stanford University in California
during her commencement address there in 2008.
She was right as rain.
If you are quiet long enough to listen to
your intuition, and heed its advice, you will follow truth. I know it. I know it for sure.
Paying attention to intuition is not always
easy—and often far more difficult than we imagine and takes much courage than
we had planned—but I believe intuition always leads us home.
I see
intuition as a magic of sorts; a realm of otherworldly wonders labeled as gut
feelings, conscience.
Trust it,
because some things are true whether you believe them or not.
Believe me,
I still have much to learn about trusting my own gut and listening to it when
it whispers to me in subtle and not so subtle ways in my life.
If I don’t
follow intution’s lead, it just hangs around in the corners of my circus until
the next best opportunity arises in which to flag me, challenge me again, and
again, to heed that “feeling” of what I know is right.
I have a
book that touts chocolate principles as metaphors for life.
Most
mornings I have a piece of chocolate with my “Caldwell” coffee before
breakfast. Chocolate rules.
“What if
you could devour life with the same commitment and passion (as chocolate)?”
queries the book.
Don’t go
with herd. “Never assume that the herd knows where it is going; it usually
doesn’t.”
Quite
frankly I don’t often know what the answers are to any of the questions I’m
being asked of my life—but I respect the accountability, and the older I get
the more I listen to what my intuition is telling me.
Cheers, my
companion.
