Meta-Morphosis, In Search of Something Bigger

If you've been following my blog lately, you know that I am on Creative Retreat, what I am calling my 42 days in the desert.

Today I received several very beautiful comments on my recent blog posts about the creative retreat.  These folks really seemed to get it and I wanted to share that with you. 

I believe they express it much better than I could because they are looking from the outside and I'm still in the cocoon!  So enjoy these beautiful thoughts....

The first from a blogging friend on Skirt! Carrie said, " Annie, your recent posts have grabbed my attention!  I'm in the same place and to hear it expressed with different words...it's like what happens when you read a poem.  Which, reminds me of the poem Metamorphosis, which begins: "Called beyond the confines of this chrysalis by a force I cannot see or name, I am compelled by pain and something bigger than myself to leave the protection of all that I have known."

Isn't that gorgeous?  Compelled by pain and something bigger than myself.  I love that part.  That is exactly it, the pain of staying the same and not doing anything different calls us either into depression or into change.  I'm choosing change, exactly because I want more for myself, for others and for the world.

The second from my wonderful fellow Speaker and Storyteller Max Brown wrote, "Annie I love your questions.  I love your ability to face fear and publish it for us to experience with you as well. I love your heart and willingness to push for somethign more.  I love your desire to push beyond comfort and all the while knowing things will get harder, yet you relish the challenge of it all."

Bravo Max! That's it too.  The desire to push past the comfort and relish the challenge.  Yes, that is saying YES to life!

It is darned easy to be lazy and let change come to you.  It is much harder to seek it out and go right into the challenge, knowing that you will find gold.  Everyone who wants more out of life needs this kind of challenge.

Last but not least was wonderful Eva Snijders, Coach and Storyteller from Spain with a quote from May Sarton, "It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard."

Exactly!  That's what I'm banking on and I'm also counting on all of you to create great new things in the new year.  As I go back down under into quiet retreat for the next few days, I'm thinking of all of you.  Continue to send your stories, encouragements, poems and comments.

I know what you are made of.  You have great things inside of you wanting to get out and be expressed in the world.  I'm here to say - you can do it.  We just need to find the quiet, tackle the inner critic (by the way we're par now) and do what mystics have always done which is go to the desert.  And no that's not dessert!

But please do send chocolates as I will really need them once I come out!

I'm thinking of all of you and the gold that you are made of.

Yours in seeking out the bigger in life,

Annie