Bigger or Smaller
/Are you getting bigger or smaller? No, I am not talking about your body; I’m talking about the YOU inside that body. As we begin another year, it’s a timely question. As human beings given a limited time here on earth, it’s an essential one.
When you lay your head down at night, are you bigger or smaller than when you awakened?
After an evening with friends, are you bigger or smaller?
When you leave church, have you expanded or constricted?
When you push the curtain of the voting both to one side, have you grown or diminished in size?
Driving home from work, does your soul take up more room in the car?
Doing the dishes after the children are in bed, are you a bigger or smaller parent?
Like my body, which is not as flexible as it once was, I fear that as we age we become more rigid, more stuck in our ways. Our efforts are concentrated on grasping long-held views tighter rather than opening ourselves to new ones.
In a few weeks, I’ll be spending 13 weeks with men and women hungry to grow. We will walk together in what’s called The Artist’s Way, a course designed by Julia Cameron to awaken people to their inherent creativity (and spirituality). It was designed to help blocked artists get back into the flow, but it has become a life-giving, life-awakening, course that helps all kinds of people get bigger. It’s not about creating famous writers or accomplished painters, though that sometimes happens. It’s a time to awaken the creative soul within and let it come out and play as it once did. The result is always expanded people – in thought, word, and deed.
Regardless of whether you do such a course or not, I wonder if the dawn of a new year brings with it an invitation to grow bigger? When 2026 arrives, will we bigger or smaller than we are now?
For those living in Greensboro:
https://secondbreathcenter.com/product/the-artists-way-deprogramming-the-inner-critic-uncovering-the-inner-creative-s25/