The Magic of a Different Story
Waaaay back in the dinosaur days, lots of you know, we were cruising along as a family and I felt a strong spiritual directive to privately educate our kids. It was a beautiful, challenging beginning of God revealing me to myself! I honesty wasn’t worried about my kids in school. They had lovely teachers and good friends. But God knew, as part of a customized curriculum for me, I would grow strongest feeling the weight of the call to be the main squeeze in their education. I attended a class about home schooling taught by Angela Baker. She is known for her rich, peaceful presence. She’s vibrant, grounded, beautiful and her words spoke to my soul! And way back then I had 2 trains running in my mind. One was the train of despair and never-gonna-be-enough. The other a train of courage and hope but it was strange how the dark one would try to derail the light! So hope had to sneak up from behind or they’d collide. One day, in my sadness but through my courage, I decided to call her. Didn’t stew about it, just got her number and called for help, encouragement, mentoring, something, anything! I wanted to talk about how to get past the inherent weaknesses my personality brought to the table. I don’t remember ANYTHING about the conversation except the greeting. I awkwardly blurted Hi Angela. I’m Liz. I’m trying to be a good mom and get it all together and be an amazing teacher for my babies but… I’m a Yellow. (which to me was the worst ) To some, having a Yellow personality means fun, creative, a party, free spirited, brilliant idea-thinker, laughter, adventure…and a whole lotta other stuff but all I could see was the scattered, the no structure, the flakey. It was scary to admit but I felt doomed to fail because of who I was…. I’m a yellow. And she said Oh! A yellow! The world needs more yellows!!!!! Immediately a blanket of peace washed over me and a light came on. She didn’t see me as bad, lame, the reason I can’t get it together and a hundred other negative words that the mean girl in my head called me. She saw in me what I didn’t see in myself (cliche). And not because she even knew me! She just saw herself clearly so she saw others clearly too. Light has a way of doing that. It illuminates the TRUTH, and the truth sets you FREE!
The Light Mom Pre-work #2 is to take the personality quiz HERE.
Recently, our whole family took it and we LOVED it. Loved seeing each other in the light of how amazing we each were and we laughed and laughed at how accurate it could be. I felt like someone had watched me for 20 years and had written me down because it was sooooo me! And so beautiful. Strengths were re-affirmed, and even weaknesses, understood in the context of “if you’re strong here, the opposite will be weakerâ€, became a DUH, not a negative. Enjoy getting to know you a little better. I’d love to hear about your favorite part or what you learned about YOU!