Conversation between Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghost of Jacob Marley in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol….
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it…”
I believe our challenge in life’s expansion toward our own dreams, is to become Aware. How much of my day, how much of that mental chatter is serving me, how much of it is just heavy metal that weighs me down?
Life’s desire to move forward, to want, naturally and endlessly fuels our fires.
Today- am I a blacksmith casting what later holds me down? Does it bind me in the chains of a habit?
OR, am I a blacksmith smelting and constantly keeping the molten iron in life malleable and flowing? Creating New everyday?
I want to ask myself, ” What do I do with Life’s Momentum and Magma?