And with each tangible step, my excitement increases, made all the more wonderful by the fact that one of my traveling companions will be my long-time best friend, Mae. She, too, has long dreamed of traveling to the land of all of our beginnings... feeling the same kind of connection i have long felt without knowing why...only knowing she is being drawn, as i have been, to re-connect with some ancient voice calling from the depths of the unknown past. Unexplainable...how does one put words to intuition, to mystery, to what is only a deep, internal certainty?
I can only say for both of us that Africa is calling...with a siren-song neither of us can resist.
Everyone is the age of their heart. -Guatemalan Proverb
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? -Frank Scully
To find your real capabilities you must push yourself through your comfort zone. -Patrick Lindsay
preparing for the journey...
Empowerment must come from within myself...
as i wrestle with anxiety & fear...
as i deal with my physical body...
as i open myself to all of the possibilities
which lie within me.
The only limitations are the ones i imagine,
the ones i choose to give power...
so...
Joy & Wonder are the companions i choose,
accompanied by Compassion & Curiosity.
Half a world away lie a different horizon,
unknown vistas, mysteries at present foreign
to my eyes & ear...
half a world away live people whose visage
and language will open my eager, searching
mind and heart in ways now only dreamed.
O Creative & Creating God,
grant me the courage to leave expectations
and agendas behind...the wisdom to
understand that only by walking willingly
into the unknown will i continue to become
fully myself...the strength to be flexible,
to bend without breaking, to welcome the
awaiting gifts of the unknown.
Africa awaits...!
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