Sometimes when as adults, we seek to heal from childhood
pain, whether it be pain that we caused others or pain that was done to us
(most of us probably have a little of both), we block out or numb all the experiences of childhood. When
we do this however, we may be blocking out the very things that made us unique.
As we heal, part of the process is to discern which things to keep and which
things to let go of through the healing.
In my own case, I was pretty bratty once I hit puberty. I
did not have a normal childhood as I lost my mother when I was an infant and
was raised by my paternal grandparents. There was much buried anger in losing
my mother of which I was not even aware and unfortunately I took it out on many
that loved me. I was a wild child in many a sense.
Lately, I keep seeing these movies about teenage redhead girls
like the girl I once was; wild, uncontrollable, different from everyone else
but special in some way and I was indeed all of these things and as a result
was mocked by others including friends and peers; however, I was also angry,
hateful at times, disobedient and likely near intolerable to some around me. As
I strive to heal and change in my adulthood, I think I am being reminded not to
throw the baby out with the bath water as they say; in trying to become a good
person, not to lose or suppress that part of me that is unique, wild, free,
strong-willed, determined, independent, natural, connected, crazy.
I am reminded of a book that my grandmother read to me over
and over, “A Girl of the Limberlost,” By Gene Stratton Porter (1909). The main
character, Elnora, was a wild child of nature and of her will and imagination,
yet as strong-willed as she was, she lived by the golden rule.
This too we can do. We can free our wild child and be good
people. Freeing the wild child to experience the innate wonder of life in all
forms is probably one of the best things that we can do to heal. And as we
experience this, we begin to care for life in all forms as well. By
experiencing the wonder of life, we are more able to glorify God and all that
is given us and through this in coming to care for all life, we are then
performing the one desire what God would have us do; serve others.
Working and healing with the power of the Holy Spirit is not
some sterile thing found only in the bounds of a church on Sunday, rather it
can be freeing our inner self and opening that self to the Spirit as it lives
within us, then allowing it to love and care for all life through our very
being.
Freeing your wild child may sound like something completely
opposing spiritual values but indeed it is not. Jesus said: "Truly I tell
you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter
the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18:3
If we are to be healed and truly free, this is one thing
that we must allow ourselves to do. Find that little kid within and return to
all that is in you that is good and pure, innocent and free, imaginable,
natural, and wild at the very heart. Be who you truly are. You were created
unique. There will never be another you.
Isn’t it time you re-discovered who you were born to be? Set the wild child
free and let her live.
Let angels guide thy path.
Get your journey on! Your soul-journey.
Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, CYI-250
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About Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam
Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, the angels’ author, has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and women's spirituality. For the past five years, she has been diligently working in Angelology, as well as publishing a series of books on angelic guidance as well as "The New Age of Christ."
Bruedigam is a certified yoga and meditation instructor. She lives in New Mexico with her husband.
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