Light
Your Journey!
(C) 2001 Julie Jordan Scott
As a child growing
up in a large family, our vacations utilized the least expensive alternatives
in entertainment. With six children in a span of ten years, my parents very
creatively convinced us, for example, that old cemeteries were very desirable
sight seeing destinations. On more highbrow moments, Dad would spot a historical
marker. With magnetic force of unbelievable strength, our Country Squire
made its way to the marker, where Dad would reverently read whatever magnificent
facts were told on the marker.
While I am now revisiting the
Historical Marker experience from a tongue-in-cheek perspective, it was in
fact a very valuable learning experience for me. In fact, I have been known
to drive off the beaten path if there is either a promising Historical Marker
or an especially interesting appearing old cemetery to explore. Think about
it a moment. What is significant about the often overlooked beacon of Americana,
the Historical Marker?
These historical billboards connect
us to history. They are placed where they are on purpose, to celebrate a
significant person, event or place that deserves eternal recognition. They
are beacons that connect us with our past in a positive and powerful
way.
As my childhood vacations are
closely connected to learning about historical happenings outside my personal
life, in adulthood, I have learned to grow from my personal historical markers.
While these do not dot the landscape of the country backroads for others
to read, they echo through my psyche for my heart and soul to read and
communicate their significance to others.
You also have Personal Historical
Markers. These plaques on our beings notice and remember distinguished people,
places and events of significance in our lives. Turning points. Beginnings
of chapters and ends of chapters. Characters that touch our hearts.
The power of our Personal Historical
Markers is birthed when we use them to ignite our purpose and our passion
into compelling action. Edward Gibbon said "Truth, naked, unblushing truth,
the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation."
These significant events can give us messages and light the path to our calling
and to our destiny.
Determining what makes up your
history, your authentic past (Mr Gibbon describes this as truth, naked,
unblushing) is both simple and profound.
Take a sheet of paper, and draw
a horizontal line across it. Fold it into three equal sections, which will
be three equal chunks of time on your timeline. With the horizontal line
as your guide, note the highlights and lowlights from your life journey so
far.
What will immediately rise to
the surface are the huge events. Your birth, marriage, death of a parent,
graduations, divorces, births.
These markers will begin to tell
your story. With each marker, note briefly either in paragraph or list form
the who, what, where, when and why and in ONE SENTENCE, write the main lesson
gleened from the historical marker. What is the message of that particular
historical marker? What made it so significant in both your life and the
lives of those around you?
To take your journey a step further,
how do your markers call you forward? Who are they calling you to be? What
are they calling you to do? What is the thread that connects them all together
in the beautiful tapestry that will create the rest of your life?
As the physical historical markers
I so cherish awaken something in my experience about the past, what are your
personal historical markers awakening in you? Johann Friedrich von Schiller,
German poet and dramaticist eloquently stated "Before Truth sends her triumphant
light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the
peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys."
Your Historical Markers are the messengers bringing forth that light.
Take the time today to begin to
bring that light forth in your life. Allow your heart to speak not only to
you, but to humanity as well. Allow your purpose and passion to be drawn
forth, compelling others to catch your vision. See your possibilities. And
a new personal historical marker will begin to be constructed for you and
others as well. Light your journey now.
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Julie Jordan Scott is a
Personal Success Coach who left her career as a government bureaucrat and
built a successful business in less than six months. She now combines mothering
4 children with inspiring people worldwide with her books, ezine, teaching
and personal coaching. Visit
http://www.5passions.com for free
resources for YOUR success!
Email-julie@5passions.com or call
661.325.4116
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