Waking Up Me!

This morning, I woke up to Sara Evans' "A Little Bit Stronger" playing in my head. As I went through my day, I started thinking about the lyrics in the song and about where I am in this current growth process. While there are many things that can happen in an instant, there are other things  that take time.  A friend of mine, we'll call him M63, told me how life is much more like a crockpot than a microwave: It takes the Spirit within us to transform us...and it is a crockpot and not a microwave experience. While birth happens in a moment...growth is a process. Like the crockpot, we have to be connected to the Source - the Power...but it is through that power that the process takes place...but it is a process. So, think about a cut of beef you'd put into the crockpot. You can take a lesser cut of meat and slow cook it in the crockpot until it is tender and delicious--over time! If I took that same cut of beef and put it in the microwave even for a short ...