We all know Oprah. Five little letters placed together are known all over the world. Some adore her. Others abhor her. But she is known. I have recorded Oprah since I got my dvr years and years ago. At the end of the night or early in the wee hours of the morning I would check the topic. Some never made viewing time on my television. Others changed my life that particular day. Messages I was supposed to receive at the time would find me. Sometimes it was a good book. Other times it was a life lesson. At times it was just some pure and simple entertainment.
If you are close to me you know that a couple of years ago I was inspired by Oprah to read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. I read the book chapter by chapter and was thrilled to talk to anyone who would listen about the life changing lessons that I had learned. Oprah announced a weekly webcast on Monday nights to cover a chapter per week of the book. I would read it and snuggle up in my favorite big blue comfy chair and listen to the author, Oprah and various readers adapt it to real life. It came at a time I needed it more than I even realized. Looking back I know the value that it brought me. It was my kick start to a shift. It cleared the cobwebs in my brain and made room for the reading, the growth and the thought process that I had so missed. It was just the beginning.
Oprah has always honored teachers and mothers. Two for two on that one. There were shows that showed me that women could be real. It is hard being a mother. It is hard being a working mother. Some shows reminded me that I didn't have to be perfect...I just had to do my best. Other shows prepped me for being a daughter to a sick and aging parent or one that is slowly forgetting his life. Wives reached out to me with words of wisdom about relationships and the difficulties in marriage. Doctors yelled about how we eat, how we live and what we need to change.
Oprah opened my eyes to some concepts that I use all of the time. Things like how the universe will whisper to you and if how you don't listen...it will shout. I say that all of the time now and I believe it to be very true. She has been my sister, mother, mentor, friend, and goofball at different times and when I needed different things. In a year that has had many losses and changes I am glad she waited until THIS year to leave the show behind her. She was a set of training wheels when I needed her the most and now as she is parting it is time to ride my bike.
On today's show these were some of the important things said:
"Everybody has a calling. Not everybody gets paid for it...but everybody gets called."
"You carry whatever you are supposed to be doing...carry that forward and don't waste anymore time."
"You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself and for others."
"You are responsible for your life and when you get that... everything changes. So don't wait for somebody else to fix you, to save you or complete you."
"There is a common thread that runs through all of our pain and all of our suffering...and that is unworthiness...not feeling worthy enough to own the life they were created for."
"There is a difference you know between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of happiness."
"Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire...Do you see me? Do you hear me? Does what I say mean anything to you?"
The universe does shout indeed. Some of these very things were thought about this morning and even talked about. It has been a big week in my quest for the new. I am pushing a bit harder this week. I realize that in the moments I am uncomfortable with the quest or the post...it is because I am doing something challenging. Something hard. I have been slipping and letting outside influences or voices quiet my own voice. I am letting fear in. I am worrying. When I push I know that I am getting stronger. I am listening, I am growing, I am learning, I am reaching and like her or not she has had a little something to do with that. Now...if you don't mind I have some aha moments ahead of me so I will be needing a good night's sleep. Goodnight all. Goodbye Oprah.
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