Stranger Danger Aussie Style

 “If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, 

then you are forced to expand your consciousness.” Les Brown

 It's no secret I have always been uncomfortable around people

I treat friends like mere acquaintances

I value my space; My home is my sanctuary

And I'd be happy to never have a soul cross my threshold

So imagine my surprise when a woman I met on an online Artist Way group

said she was coming to America and I said

Stay. With. Me.

The three words just spilled out my fingertips and danced across the keyboard

As my head screamed WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING??!!!

And my soul replied BE STILL...

The offer was made and accepted

And I thought having a stranger stay with me might not be too bad

Since a few of us had become close online...perhaps it wouldn't be so brutal

And then something happened that reminded me how much I disliked friendships

I pushed them all away and withdrew back to my sanctuary

And still I couldn't rescind the offer

As the day grew closer and I held this group further apart

I fretted

What had I done? What would I do? My space? My alone time? I don't know how to entertain.

 Cook? Clean? What would we talk about? Eat? Drink? What would we do? What had I done?

stranger ~ danger

And almost nightly the hubs smirked and said "Something's up"

And I agreed that at a soul level I knew something was up

but I was uncomfortable

With three little words I had managed to flip myself outside the walls of my comfort zone

And what I found outside those walls

was fertile ground

The moment I saw The Aussie it felt right

all the discomfort, doubt, worries, fretting just vanished

She fits right in...like family

And since she's been here I've grown by leaps and bounds

We gathered with others from the Artist Way group

some I've met before and others I hadn't

and again it all felt right
In the few weeks she's been here I've learned alot about friendships
I've learned about growth and forgiveness and love
I have so much to say but will reserve it for future posts
but tomorrow morning we board the train and head west
to meet two other 'strangers' from the Artist Way group

All I want to add is this
Thank you to my angels and guides who have forced me to push past my comfort zone this year.
Because of it I have eliminated the persons or things in my life that were no longer useful.
In turn I have made some amazing discoveries and realized the true meaning of friendships.
And learned that when you let go...you make room for more to come in.

~ ~
Note to those I've met & reconnected with locally
I'm not going to let you run and hide