Seizing Your Potential - With Help

Visit any home improvement store or a grand grocery store or a real art supply store like our Askew Taylor Paint Store or a Jerry's Art-A-Rama and the greatest thing you find is potential.

It is a rare occasion that I go to these places because they have a finished product I need. It is really the lumber, the soil, the hardware and the stuff of which other things are made that draws me through the doors.

I like making things, fixing things, improving things and appreciating what other people have done with the stuff they have brought home from these supply centers.

The potential in unfinished lumber is enormous – since I have my own milling machine, planer and sanders. The potential in the ingredients in a great grocery store is wonderful
because people are choosing items that they will use to make their own delicious creations.
The development of a garden through soil enrichment and putting plants in just the right place some people have elevated to an art.
Some plants produce tasty food and some plants produce visions for the soul … both marvelously important.
The potential inside a bottle of ink or in a tube of gouache or humble cake of watercolor is enormous. In the right hands, with the right strokes, these elements come alive, making words and images that inspire and expand our imaginations.

Potential is the wealth inside every one of us. This potential sometimes needs developed, refined, coached and directed by someone who sees in us what we cannot see in ourselves.

Sometimes we need a guide. Sometimes we need a friend who will stand with us when others have chosen to keep their distance.

Sometimes we need a healer who can correctly diagnose the thing that is hurting us and can provide help and nurture.

Sometimes our need for connection is even deeper. In making that connection we come in touch with the richest potential within ourselves.

This true soul-mate, partner, our other heart beating in another chest, helps us gather the parts and pieces and stuff of our lives and, together, we fulfill the potential we each have within.

The ingredients are blended, the components make sense and the structure is built and we are home and nourished within the Grace of our good God and within ourselves and the doors to this creation are open and goodness flows in and out.

And you are ever welcome.

© Tim http://www.timjohnsonphoto.com/
tim@timjohnsonphoto.com