Growing, growing, gone... that's how I feel my life is progressing at this point. I'm forever growing and changing but I'm always aware in the hidden pockets of my soul that there will be a day or night that arrives and I will get to check out of this fleshy envelope and move on. In the meantime, I'm progressing by "leaps and bounds" whatever that means but it sounds good. We never stop growing and learning do we.
I found, or maybe I should say, she found me, a remarkable acting/singing coach/teacher in the form of Carole D'Andrea. Once married to the actor Robert Morse, who I have always admired, I found a place of such nurturing, and soulful artistic expression, like nothing I've experienced before, anywhere. She doesnt' care if I'm not only over the hill, but down in the valley. She recognizes my talents and the passion I have for expressing them. I feel like I've come alive again to the gifts I know God gave me. I love giving them back too.
So as I began to watch a trailer for a film that is preparing production, the first quote that came on the screen is "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." How very synchronistic. I don't know if that's even a word but it works for what I'm learning about life, my place here and what I'm supposed to be doing with my gifts. We all have them. How I've thrown away so many opportunities away to express my gifts because of fear and low self-esteem. Not any more. I'm gonna go for it, finally. As Bill Cosby says "you need to decide you want something more than your afraid of it." That time has arrived. So here is to You, God.
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