Dear Precious Ones - this is so so so intense for you right now! We see you throwing your hands in the air and screaming and running around! Why is that? Is it so much more than it was before? (my answer: well, duh!). Haven’t you found the necessary tools to be able to work WITH your life rather than rail against it? Isn’t that what you’ve been learning over these past years? Patience can only last so long, then comes the time for action. If a child needs to learn to walk, yet insists on crawling, the parent is patient at first. Of course, little Buddy should do this in his own time - we need to empower him to WANT to walk and not force him. But little Buddy crawls and crawls and crawls and now he’s five years old and it doesn’t look like he’ll ever WANT to walk. Is it being a good parent to let him continue to crawl around? Or does the good parent say, “Look little Buddy - we love you and we see a broader picture for your life that includes not only walking, but running and riding bike. But you can’t progress to anything until you take this next step.” Poor little Buddy - he cries. He’s scared! He doesn’t want to fall. It’s hard work pulling himself up. He doesn’t know how to do it. Sure, he’s seen others doing it, but that doesn’t mean HE can do it. In fact, the longer little Buddy DOESN’T walk, the more scared he becomes and the LESS he’ll want to learn. It’s not so bad crawling everywhere, little Buddy thinks. I get there, eventually.
So the Good Parents are saying to you dear sweet little Buddies. Enough. You need to walk now. You know how to do it. We’ll stand right here, but you WILL fall. You will skin your knees and bump your elbows and maybe even bump your head. You will be scared because you will be higher up and it will be further to fall, but it’s all right! The more you practice and work at it, the easier it becomes. That is how it is with everything. You have to DO new things so they become familiar. You can’t just sit there. And our time has come to rise to our empowerment and mastery. And we CAN do it. We are well-equipped; we’ve just delayed so long that we are afraid. But just take one little step at a time. What can you right now, in this moment, to feel more empowered? What chance can you take? What new thought can you think? What action can you take that’s different than all the other actions you’ve taken? Just do it. Right now. Just this one thing. Then next time, do another thing. Then another. Baby steps. You don’t run a marathon when you’re 18 months old. You walk from the couch to the end table. And everyone claps. Especially you. You can do it. We know you can. And we’re here, little Buddy, to cheer you on every step of the way.