Listening to the Questions of Your Life

We started the Journey groups yesterday.

We started with the first Journey Stone: Listening to the Questions of Your Life. I forget each time how powerful listening to questions really is. How powerful just listening is.

I based the first Journey Stone on a quote by the author of The She Stories, Jane Surges:

The whole of your life is calling you.
What are your questions?
When we identify our questions, the answers mysteriously follow.

As I am leading The Journey this time, I am actually doing it, both before the group and during it. In this process, I am finding that though I believe in questions, what I really want is answers. As a therapist, I find I am accepting of my patients' questions, but listening to my own questions is hard.

It takes courage. I am finding I am more comfortable with answers...and being in the illusive position of "having" answers.

What is the whole of my life? When the whole of my life calls me, it means that I have to be willing to be open to failure and success, comfort and anxiety, joy and sorrow, knowing and unknowing. The integrity of it all. Not in another place or in another situation, but now, in this very moment.

More tomorrow.