Teaching from a Hawk

who are you striving to become?

Stepped out for an early morning walk the other day and look who showed up! Having just circled the bend in front of our home I felt a swoosh of something over my head. I looked up and there was the immense wingspan of this beautiful brown and white hawk. He swooped down settling himself on the green grass near the sprinkler.

Grabbed my phone, opened the camera, and began videoing this guy. Beginning at a distance I gradually moved in closer with a new video.
His presence was quite welcoming. I wanted him to take off and fly so I could catch another glimpse of his awesome wingspan but instead 
he beckoned me to pause with him, and so we did. lol

NOT NOTHING

Encountering a hawk has numerous meanings when I searched online, many with which I resonate. Though I thought why not listen to inner guidance about this encounter using Pause. I also wanted to practice,
Pause For Inspiration The 4 Decisions, because I lost my peace over nothing this morning. I sensed there was something deeper that led to losing my cool that was not nothing.

THE UNGLUING

Moving through my practice feeling something ungluing itself, I went grocery shopping during the ungluing! I shared Pause cards with the cashier and she loved them. Seeing that I was loaded up with groceries and it was the end of her shift, she offered to grab another cart and help me out to my car. I usually refuse the help but I paused from my impulsive, “No, thanks” and responded, “Sure!”

She held the shopping carts and read the Pause card as I unloaded the groceries, and she asked, “Are you a writer?” I paused because I don’t see myself as a writer, but rather more one who listens and writes what I receive from Inspiration Within. Skipping the explanation I simply said, “Yes.” This was the prompt inner Inspiration had planned. This was all part of the ungluing, to reach deeper into the trunk and pull out the Pause Golden Book to give her. 

THE HAWK’S WISDOM TEACHING

I hopped in my car and from the unexpected encounter with the hawk paired with an unplanned exchange with this young woman, I received an answer to an inner question that I have pondered for years. I heard:

“Mary, if you were to meet your Self on the street and have an encounter with your Self, who you are truly,
you would be so happy, and you would think,
“Wow, I want to be like that person!

Mary, you are that person. (already)”

Who is it that you are striving to become?
All the while
who you are truly in all of your depth and breadth, 
right here, right now,
is that person.