When They Say NO

When you pitch your precious idea to the boss.....and it gets shot down..... doesn't mean its a bad idea. When you apply for that job and you never hear back....doesn't mean you are unimportant.

When you create something....something you worked really hard at....perhaps for weeks, or months or even years...and it hasn't found its audience....doesn't mean it isn't brilliant.

Sometimes the hardest roads are the roads most worth walking. Some fires burn so hot that we can not see the castle that lies beyond the smoke.

Some of you have carried great burdens, burdens that were too great for you age and stage in life to be carrying. Those battle scars are deep within your soul and psyche. It can be hard to believe in yourself...when you don't feel heard.

But permit me to circle back to the main point for writing this post. GEtting a "No" is just a "no". It only carries the meaning that YOU attach to it. Sometimes a "no" simply means..."not yet". Sometimes a "no" just means "yes, but in a different format". Sometimes a "no" is just because the answer is yes, but your gift must be handled and managed by someone else other than yourself.

Many artists are not particularly business minded. The few that figure out how to make a good living from their art, usually have to outsource the marketing to a person or organization outside their own home and realm of comfort. Art is deeply spiritual, and needs others to empower it's becoming. Every artist needs a tribe to support him/her.

Some of you have the "lone wolf" habit mastered to a T. You prefer to isolate yourself because you have been hurt or misunderstood by friends or family or coworkers. You would rather risk stagnation than face unknown people or opportunities. But stagnation has it's own cost. Artists and creative folks who don't find a platform for their work may fall into despair  and stop creating.... They may fall into the delusion that they will never find their tribe or platform.

Well, I think I've said enough for today. I just want to encourage one of my readers today. No doesn't always mean a permanent "no". Maybe your YES will come tomorrow if and only IF.....you don't give up.

May God encourage you who don't know where to turn. May God lead you gently, with your permission and in the ways and means which you may receive and understand.

In His Peace,

Carla

Where Do you Hold The Answers

Yup, this post is going to be a little bit "out there". But hey, if you know me well, you probably are getting used to that :)

One has to be willing to think outside the box once in a while to keep life fresh and interesting.

I have read enough books and watched enough videos exploring the nature of intelligence, knowledge and the human brain.

I have studied great biographies of folks like Nikola Tesla and other inventors. Albert Einstein's story never ceases to inspire and educate me.

So today, my simple thought is this.... Where do you search for answers to your most compelling questions? Do you search

within your own brain because you feel that all knowledge 

is "within you"? Do you search the air for answers to float by?

Do you devour books and videos or send emails to "experts" whose brain you wish to pick?

Well, I have probably attempted most of the above. Lately I have come to discover one simple truth, that the answers are not within one's own brain. They exist in an accessible realm not fully understood, but a realm that definitely exists.  It is not a physical realm, but a loaded realm where all knowledge dwells. 

We can access this realm of knowledge when we place a problem in front of our eyes and mind and not let go of the problem until the answer arrives. It takes faith and patience to access the realm of knowledge...where all answers are stored.

One can speak of God, and Jesus and the Holy Spirit and if you can resist the lure of "religious demons", you will find your self closer to the knowledge you seek. Why? Because God holds all knowledge. He is not hiding it from you.

Reading how Telsa and Einstein would uncover the mysteries of the universe and it's abundant energies makes me silent and impacts me deeply. The quietness and stillness of their discoveries is so profound. They both trusted that the answers would come to them, when they were ready. They worked from a position of knowing a little bit, and as they developed projects that explored the knowledge they had already mastered....new avenues and tid bits of knowledge revealed itself. They were never too proud to explore a principle once they understood it. They never looked down on anything that seemed "too obvious"....like gravity, the sun....light and energy and weight. They took delight in uncovering the obvious and hidden potential in the things we see and use every day.

It seems that knowledge has one price to pay....one fee to entry. That price is humility. Those who feel they know all and have no need or interest in learning anything more will not be allowed in. God resists the proud.

What is a current small project you are working on? Don't give up, just because the answer feels far away. Keep holding goals and interesting questions in your heart. 

This post feels incomplete, but I must run now. 

In Peaceful productivity,

Carla.

Rise Above...to Where You Belong

Hi Friends,

A wee blurb today.

Something I have been musing about. Permit me just to blurt what comes to mind. May God lead and guide my blurting :)

Some of you have been given great wisdom. Some of you have spent years gathering specific knowledge in certain areas of life. But there is one thing that you are lacking. The thing that you are lacking is respect for yourself.

You have traveled, and invested significant chunks of time and money even.... in order to possess the knowledge you may now claim as your own. You should have a confident swagger in your step, but instead you are cowering in darkness.

Your body of knowledge is not random...it has been crafted and honed and sharpened over time. You have opened your heart to strangers  and allowed them to feed you with more expertise and wisdom in this area of "knowing".

But what is going on right now, in this season of your life....is that you are allowing people who are less experienced and less knowledgeable to hinder your life's journey. You are supposed to rise above their pettiness and rivalry, but instead you are getting offended by their immature comments and stares.

 You are better than this. You have come so far. You have raised yourself up beyond the spaces these people are mired in. They resent you because they do not know that they are stuck, and are haughty and overly confident in the space  in which they are stuck.

You, my friend, are not stuck. You are lonely because of your excellence. You are lonely because of your dreams. Do not run. Walk confidently....one step at a time....and write down your goals. Loneliness is not a catastrophe. You will make better acquaintances once you rise above to spaces and places...where you belong.

The simple thing is.....is that you know you are above this. You are embarrassed that you have allowed others to get you down. You're miserable not because you have disappointed others...but because you have disappointed yourself. There is still time. There is still time. This game ain't over.

That's all. May these words help you...in peaceful productivity.

Carla.