Beyond "ME" to BE

For the first half of my life, there was YOU (my family), there was US (John & I, as partners), but there was basically no ME.  Eleven years ago, the foundations of my very being were stripped down, when Mom passed out of this life & my family passed out of my life.  I was left wondering just who I was, without Mom to be here for, with all of my sibs gone, with most of the people I considered our friends turning out to be Mom's & vanished without a trace once she was gone.

Even at the time, wondered if I was going through the equivalent of stripping down an engine in order to rebuild it, better than ever.  And that's what happened.

The phases were pretty clear - from a sense of YOU (others taking precedence) to ME (struggling to get my emotional/spiritual groundings) to the present moment, to BE.  Time to let the personal work recede into the background, time to get cracking with BEing, with being active in the here & now, in tangible ways.  

Guiding light - Walter Childs words about John Pitcairn.  Emblazon them on my heart, live them in my deeds.  BE.