From Bali

September 13th 2008, Bali, Indonesia

Yep, took me a damn long time to get around to this blogging thing. I can be a bit slow at times…..and yet lightening quick at other times. I’m odd that way. And in others ways, too.
So, I’ve decided to make this blog personal. Partly because I’ve noticed a number of my friends get so much entertainment value out of my personal stories, partly because I’ve noticed strangers I meet get some other kind of value out of my personal stories.

So here I sit in Bali, Indonesia as I write this. I took the long way to get here – via Costa Rica. Bit of a detour, yes. 2008 has been the year that I’ve taken up a new career – professional packer and mover. It feels like all I have been doing this year is packing up, moving, unpacking, then packing again, moving again, unpacking again. Are you sensing a theme here too?
In the middle of my grand re-location project from Thailand to Costa Rica, God suddenly interrupted and said “Oh, I’m sorry……did I say Costa Rica? I meant Indonesia. Always get those 2 countries mixed up, they sound so much alike. Terribly sorry…”
Of course I am being bit facetious… but not too much. So, after embodying a “Deer in Headlights” kind of immobility and confusion for a spell, here I am…..eating Gado-Gado instead of Gallo Pinto.
Now, THAT part of this whole 180 degree destiny turnaround fiesta has been the easy part – the cuisine part. Let’s face it, having happy taste buds does help. But other aspects have not been quite so easy. Too bad life can’t be just one tasty curry after another. Instead, life is demanding (especially this year) a rubber-band like flexibility and flow from me. Now, throughout my life, I have always been complemented on how incredibly flexible and adaptable I am to circumstances, environments and situations. I guess there was more in there.
The question I have taken up asking myself now, after every obstacle and roadblock I encounter (and there have been PLENTY) is “Was I Grace?”
Sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes the answer is definitely no. I am a work in progress, just like everybody else on this planet, after all. But as I find that I am able to be Grace more and more, the more FLOW there is in my daily existence. We're working on it...!

Here is my invitation to you – Challenge yourselves to believe just one thing about yourself that you never allowed yourself to believe previously.

Hmmmmmm…..

During this CRAZY year of changes and upheavals, I wish you all the gift of Grace….and the ability to be like a rubber band.

In Love and FLOW,
Lara

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