Mastering the Art of Falling
Need to keep the fires burning and am doing some reposts that seen timely. My spin is YES, WE CAN! In fact, the more I read about us, the more I see that women rule the world from porches to the front lines. They are taking their places in everything that concerns us, which means everything happening on the planet. It does my heart good to see them stand their ground and demand to be heard and seen!
I’ve had some “lesser tumbles” the last couple of years that threw me off my course, or maybe to chart a new one. An aneurism in 2019 began a new way of being; new physical challenges have modified my activities, and a new home space is taking some time to get used to. Although I had a “complete recovery” things in my brain have shifted. I still rise. I still engage, I still pray and have great faith that all is as it needs to be. “Don’t worry, be happy…and kind” comes to heart.
I loved the title when I first read it and did a deeper dive. What does it mean? Many books have been written on the subject, but this is my spin.
To begin with, it is every time a woman is turned away from whatever her heart desires. How many times have we been crushed by the words “NO” you can’t, girls “aren’t allowed.” Divorce and death knock us off our feet requiring us to get back up and carry on, falls that have knocked the breath out of us—literally and figuratively.
We fall down a lot in our lives. We are knocked down, tripped, we stumble and sometimes we are pushed. Mastering the Art of Falling would be a great talent to have. To be able to be gracious right away, to get up and say “I’m ok” and be able to mean it and move on would be a great skill to have. But we always fall over. Grief, abandonment, self-doubt, all of these are the obstacles that constantly trip us up and make us fall.
Mastering the art of falling takes a lifetime of stumbles. It takes courage and fortitude. It takes the help of others who care about us. And it takes faith that we have what it takes.
But most of all it takes ourselves to get back up, brush ourselves off and start all over again….and again. This is how we learn to be the masters of the fall.
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