Current Inspiration

Ship’s Wheel/Heart

Hello, my friendly blog reader!

Although I usually post on Wednesday, I pushed it because I didn’t have enough time to write. Honestly, I was so busy yesterday that I knew if I tried to force myself to sit down and write this, it wouldn’t be any good because my heart wouldn’t be in it. So now here I sit, ready to write, but still nervous that I’ll say too much or not enough. However, my heart is open to sharing this idea so, here we go…..

To get you caught up (my friendly blog reader), I came up with an analogy back in May of 2008 I call You are the Boat. It came to me when I was home-schooling my son because we were moving to Brasil for a year for my darling husband’s work.

Home-schooling wasn’t nearly as easy, or as much fun as I had hoped it would be. Although I knew my son deserved a positive influence, I wasn’t sure I was up to the task.  We hadn’t even left the States yet and I was already feeling stuck and helpless. I knew I wanted to be happy and successful, I just didn’t know how to get there.

As I got ready to take my dog Tootsie out for our walk, I thought to myself “How am I supposed to get through this?”

The next thought that came to my head was “You know, your attitude is like the rudder on a ship. If you can keep it adjusted appropriately, you can get where you need to go. If it gets stuck, you’ll just go in circles and never get anywhere. You’ll frustrate yourself, and everyone around you.”

As I took my walk, the rest of this boat came to me. Different parts of the boat symbolizing different parts of life. When I got home, I took out my colored pencils and drew it out. ->

When I showed it to my darling husband and wonderful son, they said they liked it and that it made sense to them. I kept the drawing out where I could see it and started working on keeping my attitude adjusted appropriately.

Although I originally thought the Boat started with the Rudder/Attitude, it wasn’t until I was talking about it with a lady friend this past summer that I realized, the analogy doesn’t really start there.

It all started when I opened up my heart and asked for help.

Despite the fear and confusion in my mind, (more likely because of it) my heart cried out for help.

I wanted to be better than I was.  To feel like I had some control over where I was going. To know I was on the right track.

Most importantly, I wanted to be a good influence on my son.

I needed to find hope that I could become the mother, teacher, person I wanted to be.

By opening up my heart and asking for help, I made room for guidance to step in.

In this analogy, the Ships wheel/heart is steered by the Captain/God, so I’m learning to listen to my hearts desire (direction) thru my connection to the Captain/God (more about this in next weeks post).

I also had to learn to trust in myself and my connection to my Captain/God. (I’m still working on this part)

Although I still struggle with day to day stuff, I’ve finally figured out what my heart wants.

My hearts desire is to have a positive influence on my family, friends, community, country and planet.  And to help other people (especially YOU, my friendly blog reader!!) to find their hearts desire, too! Writing this series about the different parts of the Boat is my way to get started.

Although I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve by telling you this, I believe I’m suppose to share this Boat analogy  (in fact, that’s why I started writing this blog in the first place!). I’ve put together a power point presentation and a workbook. I’ve just done my first presentation at our local library, and there’s another one scheduled for the end of this month in Oxford, Michigan. I’m also sharing the Boat, a Make your own Magic Wand class and the Stretch through our Community Ed classes next month.

If you’re interested in coming to a class, please contact me at pambelding at gmail dot com.

I’m following my heart and hoping for the best!  After all, my Captain knows where to go.

So, what does your heart want most?…….

I would LOVE to hear about your hearts desire!!

xoxo

Pam

p.s. I’ll be back on Monday with the Inspirational song of the week.

p.p.s. I’ll be writing about the Captain/God in the next of the series. xoxo

p.p.p.s. A wonderful lady named Hiro Boga is offering a class about ruling your world from the inside out! I thought the Queen of Hearts seemed appropriate!!  Check it out!!