A Blog by Adrienne Wallace

  The Awakening    A time comes in your life when you finally get it...when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out -" ENOUGH! " Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes. This is your awakening . You realize it's time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change... or for happiness, safety and security to come galloping over the next horizon. You come to terms with the fact that neither of you is Prince Charming or Cinderella and that in the real world there aren't always fairy tale endings (or beginnings for that matter) and that any guarantee of  "happily ever after" must begin with you... and in the process a sense of serenity is born of acceptan...

The only problem we ever have with now is that it is not about us as we are defined. We are defined by our fears and our maddening resistance to change. That is the problem with now. The problem with now is that it requires thoughts outside of ourselves. Imagine it is not about you. What would now look like when we acknowledge that it is not about us? The problem with now for many of us is that we do not see NOW we see past. NOW is when we need to ask ourselves, "What does the past have to do with today?" The problem with now is that it requires that we look at ourselves for cause and not blame or depend solely on others that we feel are different than us, obligated to us, or most comfortable to us. We drive through life most times viewing the things and people around us as the cause of what is wrong with now. We put them as a problem in the view scope and as the object in front of us. We grab blame energy instead of motivation and inspiration from things. We trip over the...