rite of passage

Good Morning!!

When we are finally finished with one thing in our life, it is amazing the speed at which we move into our new opportunity.  

Every day, there are rites of passage, that moment when we let go the old and embrace the new.

To be present to the exact moment when the exchage occurs allows us to celebrate fully that right of passage. We will never be the same again.  

The moment we leave our mother for the first time... when our bodies change from children to young adult... when we get our first job....  the moment we buy our first house, or apartment. The moment of the birth of our children....The moment we leave our children for the first time.... .The moment we become grandparents....  

At the moment of these changes, is where the rite of passage occurs.  

We can't go back, the past is purposeful and necessary in order to stand in this moment in time.

Because we are changed, we shouldn't continue to mourn the past, but  be excited about the future..  

Here is the thought for the day!  

 With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure [like a hardy crustacean].

We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.
AUTHOR: Gail Sheehy
BIOGRAPHY: American author and writer, b.1937    
Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
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