The DAILY SPARK Blog

BREAK THE SHELL

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly.  This is the simplest principle of success.  You dream, you dare and you fly.

Quote by Israelmore Ayivor

REFLECTION:

  • Nature teaches us!  This robins shell became too confining.  
  • Is there a “too confining shell” that you have outgrown?  Do you need to bust out of your shell?
  • What do you dream of doing?
  • What do you want to dare to do?
  • What risk do you want to take to fly?
  • Take a forward action today… chip away at your shell.

GIVE OVER THE PAST

FORGIVENESS

Take all your sins and shortcomings

Every last mountain and molehill of your past

And give them over to the waves.

That’s too easy you say.

But I tell you there is light

Hidden beneath your fear

A free spirit waiting to soar with the seagulls.

The moment you relinquish your tight grip

On guilt or innocence 

Receive the blessings of the salty spray

The benediction of the cormorant.

Forgiveness look like the delight in your eyes

As you wave goodbye to the shoreline.

Poem by Danna Faulds titled FORGIVENESS 

REFLECTION:

  • Are you able to forgive yourself for past sins and shortcomings?
  • Can you give them over or does that seem too easy?
  • Explore forgiving yourself. 
  • Can you wave goodbye to the shoreline of your past and soar with the seagulls?

REPEATING PATTERNS

If somebody treats you with unkindness, if they judge or criticize you, it’s likely they have endured similar treatment from others in the past, and they are only repeating unconscious patterns in search of a love they cannot find. 

Quote by Jeff Foster

Learn more about Jeff Foster: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/

REFLECTION:

  • What unconscious patterns are running your life? Are you aware?
  • Consider asking a loved one to share a pattern they see that perhaps you can’t see in yourself.
  • What is it?  
  • Pause and examine if you are really in search of love and are not too good at expressing it. Then decide if you want to change up the pattern.