Pocket Note #19
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Stand at the Gate
Today, before you hurry into the next thing, pause at one threshold.
A front door. A garden gate. The doorway to your office. Even the edge of your journal page before you begin writing.
Place one hand there for a moment.
Not to push. Not to pull. Just to notice.
Then ask yourself, very quietly:
What in me is ready to open now?
You do not need a perfect answer.
You do not need a five-step plan.
You only need enough honesty to hear the first gentle truth.
Maybe it is your patience.
Maybe it is your hope.
Maybe it is a part of you that has been waiting behind its own honeysuckle for quite some time.
When you have your answer, even if it arrives as only a feeling, take one small breath and thank the threshold for holding still until you were ready.
Then open what can be opened kindly.
Not everything in life responds well to force.
Some things bloom because we approached them softly.
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