M. Suzanne Terry

This post was born in tonight’s Story Sessions Write-In. The question was “Where is he calling you to risk right now?”

My call to risk is not initially a do.

It’s a stop.

Maybe yours is, too. Feel free to fill in the bracketed space with things to lay aside that are specific to your need.

Stop [teaching more classes than you have time to teach.]

Stop [taking more classes than you have time to take.]

Stop bringing the job home with you. [Do not check the desk blog on the weekends.  Do.  Not.]

Stop [answering when part-timers phone or text on your day off.] You can’t control their urge to doubt themselves, but you can control your urge to reward their doubt.

Stop saying yes to everything that sounds like it might…

…maybe…

…could be a part of the big picture, for your big picture is so, so big, and the day is so, so short. Learn what yes sounds like when it is whispered to your spirit instead of manipulating it to sound true when it is spoken aloud.

Stop insisting on keeping traditions that you no longer have enough help to keep. Today is not the same as yesterday.  The good news is that it is also not the same as tomorrow.

Stop talking about how angry you are that you don’t have time.  Use that energy to create time instead.

Stop.  Abide.

And then get ready to embrace.