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Unfold Your Wings and Watch Life Take OffPart 2 - Your Potential  Wisps of high cirrus cloud are painted against the milk blue sky. Between the shore and Rathlin Island a line of small grey and white clouds hangs motionless, close to calm ocean water. On the horizon across the Irish Sea, fluffy white clouds are towering. The cloud base lies low, just above the land. The towering tops reach into the blue in great boiling columns of cotton white.
Your Potential Can Be FrighteningLike watching thunderclouds form, feeling lost and out of control can be frightening. The old certainties are gone. They will never come back. We can no longer rely on our old goals. We need to learn to have faith and to trust. This is especially true when nothing seems fixed or certain. Being lost and out of control are means adopted by the call to bring our fears to the surface. When our fears surface they leave us and we receive healing. We may have quite understandable worries. We may be worried that our partner disagrees with what we are doing, or that our family do not understand, or we may be worried that we will run out of money. Following our potential will challenge us to trust in a fundamental way. Trust stops being a concept in our heads and becomes a central feature of the way we run our lives. As I followed my potential I had money worries. I went for long periods without working and had to rely on small amounts of money I received from the government. I worried because I did not seem to be achieving anything (I was achieving inwardly of course but this was not always obvious). I was worried that I no longer had any status in society (this was good for me and taught me not to be dependent on status for my self-esteem). I also worried if I would ever come out of my healing period (this taught me to have patience). In the end I did not so much move away from feeling lost and out of control, as enter fully into it as a permanent state. I adapted to it. It felt comfortable. In that settled state I discovered freedom, true love and security. I had found a life centred in love and in the call. I had gone beyond my fears and was at peace.
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