Find The Star Within
Dedicated to all Self Seeking Searchers
The mature person, with gray hair, is in quiet reflection in front of the Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is the ladder of her successes to date as denoted by the stars hung on the tree. She is soul searching through meditation for more strengths and successes and has two more to find, for now. She knows they are there and holds the stars in anticipation of finding them.
We need to soul search from time to time and Christmas and the New Year is a good time to do this. We ask ourselves many questions about where we’ve been and what we want to develop further. Do we want to be more compassionate? Do we want to be more joyful? Do we want to be more forgiving? Each of us knows what we need, to grow and learn. Those stars already hung on the tree are our map of what we’ve already accomplished and who we are to date. We will always find another branch to hang a new star on so our task is never quite done.
If we base our lives on Love and Joy we will be able to flower to help others. We flower from the inside out as seen by the woman wearing a flower in her clothing. We learn by being in relationships and there are many roles we play with one another. Joy and Love keeps us stable and able to ground ourselves to expand more.
Surrounding us is a network of possibility, potential and the support of others. There are those in our circle, as seen by the small, pink, hearts at the top left and bottom right of the page. There is a bigger universe as seen in the floating, large, pink hearts. Each large heart has millions and millions of caring, nurturing, pulsating, cells that align themselves to make things happen that we wish for. The bounty of the universe is endless and it unfolds to us. It is there. We sometimes cannot see its magnificence, and all it requires is that we trust. It is energy spiralling in the cosmos – it a “collective” that we ourselves fuel.
“To Find The Star Within” just relax in life and spend gentle time with yourself thinking. Make a visual list on a daily basis of your accomplishments. See them grow into stars. Pay homage to the world and thank everything in your circle of being for bringing you this far. Gratitude is one of the key resources to find the star within for when you are grateful for what you have, you can move forward to find new things to be grateful for, and often they are our very own attributes, skills and successes. Seeing these in one another will help us see them in ourselves.
Hang this doodle art close by so you can remember to find time for spiritual growth through meditation, relaxation and sleep. Your tree will soon be filled with stars and your light will continue to grow all over your tree. You will illuminate brighter and brighter. The world will know who you are by taking your rightful place in the universe and seeing your world-wide glow.
Gail McNaughton
December 21, 2011