Don't Take the Bait

Fear that we made the wrong choice, such plump and juicy bait

We end up biting the hook, believing the story that we followed our heads instead of our hearts

It's a classic romantic movie tale.

As an audience, we all follow along on the edge of our seat, desperately rooting for the character to work up the courage to leave their boring lives and follow the trail of passion back to their long lost love

The movie ends with the long lost lovers finally reunited, the music commences and the credits begin to roll

Though the movie is over, the underlying story continues playing out in our minds on repeat

And then soon enough we see the remnants of that tale manifesting in our lives

Having built bridges between us made of half truths, and judgments

We find ourselves yearning to leave, because we tell ourselves that what we have isn't good enough

The mind begins to battle between head and heart forgetting there is the Middle Way

I almost fell for it again but then a question, a miraculous question, popped up not from my mind, but from my heart

What if we stop fearing that we made the wrong choice?

What if we began to trust that what has kept us together all these years was not fear, but actually love?

Oh, but my beloved is far too wise because every time I push, he pulls away

Deep down he knows there is still another lesson to be learned because a premature reconciliation would only be sowing the seeds of future resentment

Deep down he knew that somewhere along the way I mistook him as the source of my good which made my need for his love insatiable

Demanding more and more

"No, not like this...like that...no not like that....God you'll never know!"

All this tension and exhaustion between us has finally made it so that I have to choose me

Unfortunately we sometimes find love before we find ourselves

So we must be careful for if we choose the relationship before we've had the chance to accept and love ourselves, we will always seek to possess that which is outside

We'll continue to desperately be clinging on to the outcome of how we think our lives should be

If we choose us first there will always be just one more thing you could have done an endless never enough because I'm asking you to fill a place in me that can only be filled by the Source.

You see the movies have us thinking that the adventure begins when we leave our lives behind, but the real adventure begins by staying

We meet temptation, our strength of character is tested, and we must persevere. This is the true hero's quest!

With incredible patience, awareness, and discernment we are born onto the adventurous path of conscious love either together or a part