The magic is within you.
Sometimes, when I slow down enough to pay attention, messages I need to know find their way to me. It could be through a podcast, a conversation, something that a friend shares with me, a passage in a book, or a sign on the side of the road. But when I hear a message come to me multiple times in various ways, I know it’s the universe trying to tell me something.
When it happens, it usually means that there is a truth I'm learning or a piece of hope I need to carry in my pocket moving into a new season. The message that has been coming up for me lately can be summed up as this:
Everything I need is already inside me.
Donna Ashworth’s post this week titled “Pull Out Your Plan” speaks to this and resonates with me on such a deep level. She writes:
“This is simply, and I hope, powerfully, a reminder…
that you have whatever you need within you
and while qualifications are important, your belief in yourself, your passion for your pathway, is much more powerful.”
I’ve also been reading The Pivot Year by Brianna Wiest. On day 79, Wiest says:
“You don’t have to run forever. The answers you’re looking for have probably been within you all along.”
Hanging on the wall in my office is a flag that states, “The magic is within you.” I can often ignore the flag since it has been there so long, but today, the light hit the wall in such a way that I couldn’t look past it. The message that I sit next to daily glowed like a neon sign.
These messages are coming to me at the perfect moment (as they already do, right?) And when I may pay attention to them, I can let their truths soothe my tired soul. Just like a tulip opening up brightly to the golden setting sun, I, too, want to open myself up to the deep knowings that are already inside me.
Wiest continues to write:
“The journey is about strengthening your inner resolve to choose what you have always know is right, even if the world would not understand, even if you might disappoint some people, even if it might scare you or challenge you or make you feel vulnerable in a way you have have before.”
I’m feeling a shift inside myself – a pivot, if you will, in my career and life – toward something that I’ve felt for a long time but never knew how to access. I don’t have words to share about it yet in this space, but this is the journey, finding this inner resolve to choose what I’ve always known inside myself to be right and true.
While I don’t have words for this pivot yet, I wanted to share this truth with you if you needed it, too.
Everything you need is already inside you.
Often, society wants you to believe that you need to depend on the structure systems it has set, that you need to do things a certain way, or that you are not enough as you are. You are like a vegetable seed; all of the flavors of the fully grown plant are packed away in your soul; you just have to trust yourself to grow, grow, grow, baby.
I’m keeping this message close with me this weekend as we celebrate Easter and the world wakes up from winter.
Wishing you a peaceful and light-filled weekend. Thank you for reading. <3