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The other day, Londyn and I were at the regional park down the street from our house. I think of it as our little neighborhood park, but it’s actually 50 acres (20 hectares), with a lovely lake.
We’re blessed to have it as our 3rd or 4th backyard.
Londyn got to playing with this sweet little girl named Skye. Londyn kicked off her shoes, and they were having the time of their lives. As they played, I chatted with Skye’s parents, who are from San Francisco.. 9 miles but a thousand worlds away.
As Skye’s Dad and I began to talk about transformational business empires and my vision for Farms by the Beach (complete with babies riding horses, beautiful food and transformational retreat experiences), Skye’s Mom joined the girls in their play. They started to climb this little hill, though it was a little steep and there was no path right there.
We watched them meander upwards as we talked and talked. As I saw them meander upwards, I thought… this could get interesting. They were pretty high up, Londyn was shoeless, and as a cyclist who loves the hills but hates the drops I thought: “How on earth is Skye’s Mom gonna get all 3 of them down?”
I wondered at Skye’s Mom’s seeming obliviousness at the conundrum she was creating. I tried to mentally trace where in the neighborhood the top of that hill might even be, but I couldn’t come up with even a good guess. So I said something to Skye’s Dad about it, pointing out what looked to me to be a developing dilemma. I expressed my concern about his wife and how she could possibly get my 50-pound shoeless kiddo down that steep hill, which they were continuing to scale.
He looked up, then turned to me and said: “Oh, you don’t have to worry about her. She’s a climber. She’s very sure-footed.”
The girls and Skye’s Mom continued their ascent, till they were entirely out of sight.
One beat later, Skye’s Dad’s telephone pinged.
His wife had dropped a pin where they were, and texted him with the location and the message: “Hey, can you guys come get us?”
And so began the second phase of the adventure.
He texted me the location pin, hopped in his Tesla and I climbed into my SUV. We drove through my own neighborhood, twisting and turning as I surfed the little waves of my own fears and worries.
And then… we arrived. We reached the place of the pin.
On a street I know, just across from the home of a longtime friend… was a vacant lot I’d walked past a million times, not even knowing it was the top of the mountain we’d picnicked at the bottom of, dozens of times over the years.
As we pulled up, the girls were seated on a log, eating chocolate chip cookies from Skye’s Mom’s backpack as the fuschia-crimson sunset began to unfurl itself for our viewing pleasure.
Londyn—still shoeless and living her Entire Best Life—was full of chatter and delight with her newfound friend and their wild, wonderful adventure.
Skye’s Mom was full of apologies… and all us adults stood there, exchanging contact information, reveling in awe at how perfectly the day and the girls’ journey had unfolded.
I’m not telling you this story to be particularly profound or deep.
I just felt inspired to tell you today that you are sure-footed, too.
That beyond the place where you think you have to prove yourself special, beyond the place where you were programmed to perform, conform or be productive… there is a sure-footed, clear-minded, Wise Inner Being within you, speaking to you and asking you to take steps on a path where you might not see a pre-marked path.
The steps on that journey will feel scary at times and exhilarating at times.
That’s how you know it’s the right path.
And by “right” path, I don’t mean it’s the path to getting life right or checking off the “SUCCESSFUL” box. (All of those words are some worldly bullshit, anyway—let’s be real.)
It’s the Divine Order Path.
It’s the Divine Timing Path.
It’s not necessarily the quickest, most linear, most logical path to achieve your way to your highest goals. Because this path doesn’t even necessarily take you to the goals the rest of the world will “sanction” or call success.
And it’s not a fast path, necessarily. It’s a path of plot twists that create wisdom, and wind you around transcendent everyday moments of joy, and take you into shadows where you reclaim the gragements of your precious soul…fragments that you divorced decades ago.
It’s a path that slowly, gradually unfurls and unwinds the knots of self-silencing and self-abandonment.
Slowly. Gradually.
And as you unfurl on this path, you build the spiritual power you need for the next turn of the spiral of You, and you also build the spiritual muscles of ritual and practice and clarity and trust that all is really well.
Please catch this principle today.
You don’t have to earn or perform or “get your shit together” or do it right to get on this path.
To get on this path and stay on this path, you have to take the natural-feeling next step that’s trying to light up before you on any given day, and you have to keep reminding yourself that your True, Sacred Self—your Wise Inner Being—is SURE-FOOTED.
It is guided by Infinite Intelligence.
It is powered by the Creative, Universal substance that formed all worlds and everything in them.
Your sure-footed, Wise Inner Being is navigating by the North Star of limitless love.
It is constantly dropping pins to the “right” path into your dreams. The real, soulful dreams that are the language of God.
So, be sure-footed.
Receive the downloads and the direction your Inner Being is trying to flow to you right now.
Sometimes it comes in the form of a golden thread or impulse or urge.
Sometimes it comes in the form of a disharmony or misalignment, a dis-ease in your physical body or your calendar, or your home life. Urging you to nourish more. To resource more. To make a necessary ending. To move. To hit “send”.
Sometimes it speaks in the form of the tiniest synchronicity, the urge to call someone or go work out.
But it is speaking to you… right now.
Affirm your uncertainty, your unclarity, no longer.
Affirm your guidance, then await your guidance, and when it speaks… be sure-footed and take the next step on the path. You don’t have to know where it ends up. You haven’t even yet imagined the adventure this path will lead you on, and the wondrous destinations that await you on the other side and all along the way.
Head up + heart out,
PS:
The “right” path I want you to feel your way to is the path of waking up from The Fear. The Scarcity. The Unworthiness. All the trances.
It’s the path of coming to know that your tragedies and traumas in this life were not punishments, and that you are in zero danger of “getting it wrong” in this life.
It’s the path of your sacred contracts, but not in a “perform these acts before you die” kind of way.
In fact, it’s kind of the opposite.
This path is the path of knowing that every single atom of every single hair on your head is beloved of The All—Your Source—whether you ever earn another dollar, write another word, or even get out of bed another day in this life.
This “right” path is a joyful path.
And every calling you’ve ever had, every inspired idea that’s ever dropped in for you, every single crisis or catastrophe in your life can become a portal to a deeper stage of this journey.
Because beyond the place where you think you have to be special or accomplish something to earn your place on the planet, you can rest.
You can release the addiction to anxiety and stress about whether and when you’ll get THERE, because you’ll see that THERE is illusion and delusion, programmed by those who extract energy and power from the hard work of others.
You can see that all of this commerce and goal-setting and intention-setting and envisioning is really just a creation game that you get to play, should you choose to, just for the fun of it and the fulfillment of it… and it does feel fulfilling and good to play the game and play it well, because you are a creator and that’s why you came here, trailing your clouds of Divine Glory.
I declare that today, throughout the day, you will have moments or even hours where you feel:
Carefree
Covered
Safe
Secure
A-listy
Playful
Creative
Fruitful
Inspired
Energized
Clear-minded
Fulfilled
Rich
At ease in your own skin and your own life
Magical… can think or speak things to life with ease
Sure-footed. Secure in the knowing that all is well and all will always be well. Secure in the knowing that everything is always working out for you.
So let it be.
Practice feeling these feelings and watch what people, places and opportunities unfold from there.
PPS.: EIAWOFU is Tara-shorthand for Everything Is Always Working Out for You (or For Us)
Tara-Nicholle Kirke, MA, Esq.
The Inner Critic Coach™️
Founder + CEO of SoulTour
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