"What if this transporting is keeping me from transformation."

e A great quote from Love Warrior, by Glennon Doyle Melton. Her memoir is out self-discovery, she writes "What if  my anger, my fear, my loneliness were never mistakes, but invitations? What f in skipping the pain, I was missing my lesson. Instead of running away from my pain, was I suppose to run toward it. Perhaps pain was not a hot potato after all, but a traveling professor. Maybe instead of slamming the door on pain, I need to throw open the door wide and say, Come in. Sit down with me. And don't leave until you've taught me what I need to know." 
So profound, so real and raw. Whether it's emotional, physical or spiritual pain we encounter, its not generally something we invite. Running from pain is generally the path most traveled, transporting us thru many different venues that take us as far from our hurting ourselves. The writer also speaks to "staying on the mat"something she experiences while walking into a hot yoga class by accident. While on the mat, she has no place to run, but to stay with the difficult, thoughts, images, feelings and sensations that come up. The experience turns into the "wide open door, Come in, Sit down with me. And don't leave until you've taught me what I need to know." What if we were to lean into this, even an iota, what might we do with this, or what might it do with us.... can we trust it, ourselves...the challenge is presence.....mindfullness and intentionality to be with the "traveling professor."