I was once a Dorothy– lost and naive in a strange land with a tiny pet cat and the clothes on my back. I dropped houses on sisters and befriended rusted-out lumberjacks. I failed to see the irony in reviving straw men. I ducked projecticles thrown by ill-tempered trees and scolded all-roar-and-no-bite lions. I led bands of warm-hearted geniuses through dark, haunted forests as we stormed castles together and battled witches and their winged monkeys. We skipped, we ran, we sang and danced, and we slept in fields of poppies.
At the end of a long, winding brick road, we stood in awe of where our journey had ended– a sparkling city of noble persons and multi-colored horses.
We had all ended up there for different purposes. I thought I was there to find home, by way of a great and powerful wizard. But when I pulled back the curtain…
There she was, and there it was…
My home was where my heart is all along, and the powerful wizard was me.
Lessons
- Every choice we make, every person we meet, and every path we follow lead us exactly to where we need to be. The question is: What do we do with the now, and the here?
- Everything we need is somewhere inside of us. The questions we need to ask ourselves are: What’s easily accessible? What’s our go-to? What’s protecting us that may also be holding us back?
