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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:04:35 EST
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 1/21/2004 11:15:34 AM Central Standard Time,=20 dvora-s@BARAK-ONLINE.NET writes: > I had 2 interesting situations today with 2 people who come to me regularl= y > for "guidance" and in both cases I see the story of the man in the water n= ot > willing to give his hand but willing to take the rescuer's hand. >=20 > In other words, > some people need always to ask to have a hand given > and > some always need to to have a hand given. > Some of course are not drowning but still "want, but don't know how to ask= ," > maybe too much wanting from others. I did not say wanting too much from > others. >=20 > Do you understand me? Comments? >=20 > Dvora Shurman >=20 I see this as "some will give and others will take". (sort of) Years ago I=20 read an article about how some people will just take so much from another th= at=20 the energy is literally sapped out of them. I cut the article out and tape= d=20 it to my kitchen cabinet. I read it many, many times until I met the man t= hat=20 I married and than kept the artcle for a while in a box and than one day I=20 threw it out.=20 Over the years I have come to realize that there is a strong aspect in me as= =20 a healer, I so want to help heal the ills of this world and concentrate wit= h=20 what is in front of me....I don't know how to ask for help but am always=20 willing to help---if I was in the water I would most likely wait to give the= m my=20 hand. One time I was caught in a rip tide with a friend, she was have=20 difficulty swimming and staying up. I didn't consider myself a physically s= trong=20 person but I ask God for strength and began to swim towards her to help her=20= stay=20 afloat. (we had both taken water safety) As I got closer to her a life guar= d=20 swam up to me, asked me if I was okay and I told him to get my friend first.= It=20 was afterwards that I thought about all this. I tend to think of others=20 first......but is this always good? Over time I have had my energy literally sapped out of me from those who are= =20 willing to "take the hand" and have learned that I also need to sometimes ta= ke=20 my own hand and help myself. When I read in Jamie Sans book Dancing the=20 Dream that we should devote 51% of our time to ourselves, life became more=20 fulfilling. So with a hand out to help those who need it, I also have a han= d (both=20 full of Reiki energy) for myself and the strength that God gave me is much m= ore=20 than just the physical strength I was given that day out in the Pacific----o= h=20 so wonderfully more. Any way this is what came to my mind, Marcia Guti=E9rrez ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||