Journeys #30

I’m a very short person.  I don’t quite reach 5ft, so reaching high is part and parcel of my daily life.  My first task each day is one of alchemy.  I mix hot water, coffee, and a little bit of sugar into a magic elixir that will, in the proper dose, allow the Qi to flow and aid in turning me into a human.  The difficulty in this is that the coffee is stored in a perfectly average kitchen cupboard, one that pretty much everyone over the age of 11 can reach, but is way beyond my ability without a stepladder.

When I go to the supermarket, you can be absolutely sure that there will be a least one item that I cannot reach.  Sometimes, that’s a good thing.  It’s probably not that pretty seeing an aging woman making a spectacle of herself by trying to shimmy up the shelving after a particular block of chocolate.  That dilemma is actually really good for my willpower and my waistline!

We all seek things that appear to be out of reach, and I am not talking about caffeine or chocolate, I am talking about the goals and dreams we hold in life; the things we aspire to.  It’s pretty obvious that if we want to reach high, we have to be prepared to do the work to climb the mountains. 

We have to blend the ingredients – research, information, understanding, and the odd “Eureka” moment.  We also need elements such as Belief, Trust, Dedication and Expectation.  We are going to need assistance “stepladders” in the form of teachers, and people who support and love us and help us go where we can’t quite reach by ourselves.

It doesn’t matter if our goal is to gain a doctorate on the composition of the rings around Saturn; plan a trip to visit friends in another country; hike the Kokoda Trail; make the perfect muffin without any sugar or wheat flour, or shimmy up a shelving stack in a supermarket, our goal is to be able to walk our Journey through life knowing that we can achieve anything we set our minds to.  We have all the tools, and support, that we need.

And if your expectations are a little higher than you can reach by yourself, and you think that you might have to give up, think of a short, elderly woman, standing in the supermarket aisle praying to her spirit guides for someone tall to come along and rescue the bar of chocolate that is calling to her. 

And ask for help.