Your Path
By Kate Webster
Your purpose is you.
Your purpose is you.
Your purpose is you.
This realisation can hit us
like a punch to the heart.
In its simplicity,
its profoundness.
Its invocation of fear,
masks the most subtle
of sparks -
A flame
to our own potential.
Our fear arises from
our lack of claim
to our own sovereignty.
Our willingness
to hand over a responsibility
that is ours to bear
to others.
A false trust
that ‘someone else’
knows better.
But how could they?
For in our past,
hidden beneath the surface,
is the experience
which has shaped our path to date.
Learnings and knowledge
shaped by our exposure
to information,
situations,
and environments;
Relentlessly filtered
through our own perceptions,
mindsets
and belief systems –
Creating something completely unique.
Something completely irreplicable.
And what of our future?
Our service
in its highest calling
is to hold up a mirror
to show others their own potential -
The uncovering of which,
is an inside job.
It requires us to voyage
into depths unknown,
and in its darkness;
the realisation
there is no going back.
Only metamorphosis.
A transfiguration
into what is to become.
Our purpose
is our expansion:
To transcend
beyond the belief’s we cling to
and those that have been imposed upon us.
Our purpose
is to experience.
Our experience
is our abundance.
We realise life
has been an exploration
of polarity.
Of contrast.
A showcase
of what options are available to us
in any given circumstance
through the use of extremes,
which in turn
has helped us to uncover
where our preferences lie.
Where our desires lie.
Through a very personal indicator:
How we feel.
What we like,
what we don’t.
What we’ll stand for.
What sparks joy.
We begin to understand
our power
lies in our choices,
Which exist in every moment
though both our action
and our reaction
to what presents itself to us.
We learn that resonance
is the sound of our own truth.
It lives within our heart.
A lighthouse,
illuminating the boundaries of the earth
as we navigate our way by the stars.
The tides, the currents,
the winds, the seasons,
ensuring that no two journeys
are ever the same.
It is our evolution to date
that is ours to share.
The lessons of which,
are ours to embody.
<an excerpt from the book To Serve by Kate Webster>
Kate Webster is an Experience Designer who, through writing this book, was pulled to explore a deeper meaning behind our desire to serve. https://www.toserve.co IG: @to.serve.co