Hot potato!

I just couldn't help myself...LOL. When I saw this picture of a silhouette of a person who appears to be "holding the son" my memories went back to my childhood and the game "Hot Potato". Ok, if you remember that also, we both know HOW OLD we are! Like the game, this picture reminds me of "what we get our hands on" and we "get burnt"
at times while playing the game. This is just an illusion; of course we cannot hold the sun in our hands but we present the illusion of holding it without the real consequences. What are YOU holding onto?


 

We can:

• "Hold onto HOPE" (against hope) when it is not yet obvious to us that in doing so, we are entrapping ourselves to abuse or a life of unhappiness and futility. 
• Sometimes we "hold onto a DREAM", and being that it is JUST a dream, without a plan or real life yearning to become reality, we are holding onto "what might never be".
• We may "hold onto FAITH" only to find that it is an illusion that only soothes our outer person while leaving our heart, soul and "inner self" to living a life that is limited and "put into a box".
• Without fully understanding how or why we do it, we can "hold onto PAIN". We can refuse to be comforted, healed and renewed because we are afraid of letting go of the familiar; the pain, and we can miss out on the greatest opportunity to "be free and be me".

What are YOU holding onto today? 

Are you holding onto:

• Love? Are you chasing it and wanting to have all the love that you can HOLD in your life? Embracing life and relishing it?
• Peace? The deep inner knowing that you are special and deserve to live peaceably among others. 
• Joy? The right and opportunity to breathe in fresh air, hear the honking Canada geese and the clippity-clop of the horses hooves against the paved Amish road. 
• YOUR SELF? Your heart, mind, soul and will. There is A LOT to being YOU. It is the most precious gift that you have to share with the world.