To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self ~ Unknown
Undivided
"Afraid that my inner light will be extinguished or my inner darkness exposed, I hide my true identity from another. In the process, I become separated from my own soul. I end up living a divided life, so far removed from the truth I hold within that I cannot know the integrity that comes from being who I am, who God created me to be.
I yearn to be whole, but dividedness often seems the easier choice. A still small voice speaks the truth about me, my work or the world. I hear it and yet act as if I did not. I withhold a personal gift that might serve a good end or commit myself to the project that I do not really believe in. I keep silent on an issue I should address or actively break faith with one of my own convictions. I deny my inner darkness, giving it more power over me, or I project it onto other people, creating enemies where none exist.
I pay a steep price when I live a divided life-feeling fraudulent, anxious about being found out, and depressed by the fact that I am denying my own selfhood. The people around me pay a price as well, for now they walk on ground made unstable by my dividedness. How can I affirm another's identity when I deny my own? A fault line runs down the middle of my life, and whenever it cracks open-divorcing my words and actions from the truth I hold within-things around me get shaky and start to fall apart.
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness-mine, yours, ours-need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life." P. Palmer
Horses, with a keen emotional sense, can't be lied to or manipulated. A horse is only comfortable when authentic feelings are acknowledged. Even a gentle mare will become agitated when her handler wears a mask of confidence to hide anxiety. I believe that connecting with a horse offers the unique opportunity for women to begin a new journey, of living undivided.
I yearn to be whole, but dividedness often seems the easier choice. A still small voice speaks the truth about me, my work or the world. I hear it and yet act as if I did not. I withhold a personal gift that might serve a good end or commit myself to the project that I do not really believe in. I keep silent on an issue I should address or actively break faith with one of my own convictions. I deny my inner darkness, giving it more power over me, or I project it onto other people, creating enemies where none exist.
I pay a steep price when I live a divided life-feeling fraudulent, anxious about being found out, and depressed by the fact that I am denying my own selfhood. The people around me pay a price as well, for now they walk on ground made unstable by my dividedness. How can I affirm another's identity when I deny my own? A fault line runs down the middle of my life, and whenever it cracks open-divorcing my words and actions from the truth I hold within-things around me get shaky and start to fall apart.
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness-mine, yours, ours-need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life." P. Palmer
Horses, with a keen emotional sense, can't be lied to or manipulated. A horse is only comfortable when authentic feelings are acknowledged. Even a gentle mare will become agitated when her handler wears a mask of confidence to hide anxiety. I believe that connecting with a horse offers the unique opportunity for women to begin a new journey, of living undivided.
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