The Truth is the Truth

The Truth is the Truth.

Embrace the Hero Within.

There is much work and many trials, obstacles. and challenges to face along your journey to the Ultimate Boon. If you remember from earlier, the Ultimate Boon is usually a physical object to which is also attached a code of conduct or moral that the hero must learn. But what we sometimes fail to consider about the Ultimate Boon is that the hero must incorporate this lesson into the hero’s life. The Ultimate Boon brings a deeper understanding of life to the hero.

When the hero begins the journey, the hero is ill-prepared and naive in understanding the way the world around the hero operates. The hero has just a tiny interaction and appreciation for the grandeur of life and the hero’s palace within that framework. Through the trials, obstacles, and challenges, a hero begins to learn not only about the world around them but about the hero’s own character. The hero is transformed into someone worthy of learning, achieving, and incorporating the Ultimate Boon.

Bilbo and Frodo found the courage inside themselves, Amari and Jesus learned acceptance, and Anakin, Luke, and Rey found unconditional love and a greater understanding of the universe. The Road of Trials and their experiences transformed them into someone that was now mature enough in their understanding to accept the Ultimate Boon and incorporate that knowledge into their self. With a greater understanding of the world, each hero sets back home to share this knowledge with those they left behind. It is not important whether or not those back home truly understand the knowledge BUT it is the responsibility of the hero to return with that knowledge. The hero must change with the knowledge the hero has gained and live a transformed life in witness to that change.

So, what is the lesson you and I are going to learn on our journey? There are so many different things we can learn. Maybe it’s empathy, peace, compassion, love, acceptance, faith, loyalty, friendship, or family. Where our journey goes and where it leads is always an individual experience. The problem we experience as heroes sometimes is what we do with the knowledge we have. I ran into doing very unheroic things with my knowledge and used it as a battering ram. As I continued my journey, I learned and grew into accepting that my truth was not a truth to be forced on others. With wisdom and maturity, the hero can avoid the mistakes of being overzealous. And I think that is a lesson we can all learn many times throughout life. Returning with the Ultimate Boon is great for both us and our tribe, however the way we present the Ultimate Boon and incorporate it into our lives is even more important.

Preach the good word BUT realize the only person you can change and did change was yourself. Everyone else has to take their own path and find their own truth.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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What challenges will I face?

What challenges will I face?

Embrace the Hero Within

Now that you have accepted the Call, the time arrives to depart the world of your routine, the world of comfort, the world of normalcy and embark on the journey. You will face experiences with the purpose of transformation. These experiences will consist of trials, tests, tasks, or challenges. Do not be concerned about winning or passing all of these obstacles. You will experience failure as well.

The obstacles and challenges will also become increasingly difficult as your journey continues. Take comfort in knowing the Road of Trials is necessary for you to grow and learn. It is not simply about winning or defeating every problem. The journey is a learning process, a time for growth and reflection. Persevere through the trials as they create a person worthy of the Ultimate Boon.

Bilbo’s trials increased as he and his party journeyed to face Smaug, Frodo’s challenges steadily got more difficult as he and Sam traveled to Mount Doom, and Amari’s life was more and more difficult as she searched for Fort Mose, Anakin, Luke, and Rey all faced ever increasingly difficult lessons as they grew in their power and understanding of the Force. All of them faced problems that the original character would find insurmountable. All of them grow in the process of trial and error. All of them kept travelling the journey and putting in the work no matter the challenge faced. All of them were making themselves ready to achieve the Ultimate Boon.

You and I will face problems that the person we once were could not handle. That is a process of us working the path of trial and error and making better choices. I am not going to become a better gardener if I just read books about gardening. I am not going to get into shape by just watching videos about fitness. I am not going to be healthy if I just learn about healthy diets. Eventually, I am going to have to implement the action to create the change. And sometimes the work doesn’t get me where I want to go. Sometimes the path is not the correct path. Sometimes the choice is the wrong choice. And that is the beauty of the process, the journey, the idea that you get to make mistakes and then change direction. There are many obstacles to face in your journey and many course corrections to make BUT you can’t make those corrections or move to your destination if you do not start moving, if you don’t start acting.

So, what challenges will you face? In church there is this saying, “God doesn’t call the qualified; He qualifies the called.” And that is exactly the kind of mindset I am talking about needing to start and continue your journey. And the journey, the change, the mistakes, the learning, all of these things along the Road of Trials are what qualifies you and I for the Ultimate Boon. The challenges are unique to you and your call. I cannot say what your trials and obstacles and challenges will be. BUT I can guarantee that they will change you, they will qualify you for your calling. And that is the most important part of the journey. Not the trials, not the obstacles, not the challenges BUT the ability to continue along your journey and learning. Continuing to learn and change until you get your Ultimate Boon.

So when things look ever more difficult, when things are trying your resolve, when life is throwing more obstacles then you can overcome, then know that you are not expected to always make the right choices. You are not always expected to be ready BUT you are expected to change. Keep transforming into the you that you are meant to be.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #EmbracetheHeroWithin