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From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 10 Oct 2010
Time: 16:03:49 -0500
Remote Name: 205.188.116.141
[["Everyone has a challenge. This is how mine chose to manifest itself." What do you think about that statement? Is finding Me based on overcoming or learning to accept the "challenge?" I would love to get your take on this.]] /// Hello, Cathy. Of course, we all have challenges. I think those who have difficulty readily fitting in or being as they wish are more likely to be aware that life offers challenges in the form of personal choices, some seemingly big, others seemingly not so big. But, a small challenge, for instance, of whether or not to give up our place in line at the supermarket where we have been waiting to check out for some time to a woman with a cranky two-year-old sitting in her cart may seem small but, in the overall scheme of things, may be quite big. /// Every waking moment we are faced with challenges, not the least of which is to not waste our precious time but to use it well on behalf of ourselves and others. /// Discovering who we are and that our problems, such as speaking as we wish when we wish, do not name us is, for most of us, an ongoing process in which we learn to recognize and live who we are apart from our conditioning (social, cultural, generational, family, religious). Some of us will be interested in taking on the task, and some of us will not. But those who become serious about overcoming their stuttering problem will. That's my take on your question for now, Cathy.