Wk 4 Reading Entry

This week’s reading is hard to summarize. I feel like these last few chapters were more of a wrap up than new info. You know... How to use the previous chapters knowledge. I love the being the board chapter. Its always good to step outside of your current situation to “see” the bigger picture. This is what I pictured as I read the Being the Board chapter. Okay, here is the board in which my game of life is being played.... what happened to make my current situation come about?
There are a few parts of this week’s reading that stood out to me:
In chapter 11, a lady said unkind words to her brother and then never saw him again. It is a little cliche but I tell my students all the time, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, then you have nothing to say at all.” I would love to find an easy way to tell my students, “Say things like its the last thing you’ll ever say to that person. Would you want to say something positive or negative?”

How awesome it is that there are actual student letters to NASA floating around in space. It must be truly inspiring for them to read letters from children that have such powerful meaning.

I have loved this book! I hope to be able to pass this book around so that others may find the possibilities in their lives. This quote inspired me.... I hope that it can inspire you too.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,

and fabulous ----

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

people

Won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

It is not just in some of us: it is in everyone,

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously

Give other people permission to do the same.

Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love (New York: Harper Collins, 1992)

from the Art of Possibility