Wisdom chooses the path to honor. When I say the word, “honor” it’s likely everyone reading this will have various images come to mind. What 5 words or visuals come to your mind when you read the sentence, “wisdom chooses the path to honor.”? Maybe you picture a patriotic scene of an American flag and soldiers and your heart fills with gratitude for their service. Maybe you picture your parents or grandparents and you reflect on ways you can honor them as they age. Maybe you think of the Ten Commandments from the Bible. Or, perhaps you’re a first-responder and you are working during this pandemic our world has found itself in and while you are bone tired you call to memory people or organizations who have stepped up to honor you and the work you do. Whatever the case, honor is extremely important. It goes beyond just respect. Honor is a demonstration of recognized value. Honor is an empathy response. Honoring someone serves as a vitalistic and energetic exchange that infuses the honoree with a sense of value, morale, and love while giving the honoror a sense of having holistically served their fellow human who has given so much. Respect is great! But, honor is awesome.
Now, let me talk to you about what I have in mind when it comes to honor and the wisdom path. I’ve been dealt a lot of hard life lessons. My entire life has been rife with dear people who make poor choices that negatively and sometimes catastrophically so, impact myself and others. It is in this vein that I wish to explore honor and wisdom. For most of my life, and I am now forty-one years old, I basically stayed on-call for two family members who made the poor choice to use drugs. My days on this planet had unfortunately been fraught with calls about domestic violence against my mother, she literally died several times and nearly died as recently as two years ago from another overdose. Frantic was the order of life for me. And, finally after a very ugly falling out with one of my brothers I was forced to sever ties with him. And, it’s been over a year now since I last spoke with him. During this time I had to turn inward and it was in that turning inward that I cut the energetic cords that bound me to be emotionally obligated to rescuing him and his reckless words and verbal abuse.
I began to work on centering myself, grounding myself and loving myself. (More on self-love in another writing). In doing that I began to establish boundaries and iterate that the boundaries are mine and they are not to be crossed. I finally developed a healthy autonomy and I have been all the better for it. Now, this is where I was wanting to get too to speak about wisdom choosing honor. You ready for some meat? Cause that’s what this is. It’s something I had to chew on first before I could enjoy the fruit of it.
When I say, “wisdom chooses honor,” I mean it in a tough love sort of way but nuanced with compassion and wisdom. I quit seeing my brother as a jerk. I quit seeing him as a broken man (even though he is) and I began seeing him as a man who intentionally made series after series of poor decisions that diminished the quality of his life. In other words, he is responsible for himself and I am no savior. I did not come to this earth to be a savior. I came to this earth as a creator. And, I cannot spend the rest of my life playing a role I was never meant to fill. It’s my time. And, I would say to you reading this, “it’s your time.” It is our time to step into the roles we were destined for and without shame or guilt embrace the powerful light-filled wisdom that peoples of the earth need.
I chose to honor my brother by removing the crutch that was me, and thereby empowering him to step into his own power. Now, wait. Didn’t I just say above that honor infuses the honoree with love, value, and morale? Yes, I did. And, while it may not feel that way to him now I firmly believe that his future self has thanked me for that and is quite relieved I did it. He deserves so much more than being enabled. And, so do the people you love. Maybe it’s time to search your own heart and inquire, “are there people in my life that I need to honor by removing the crutches and enablement so that they come into their own? So that their future self thanks me?”
It’s not easy. But, it’s worth it. So here you see it is wise to always honor. It is the wisdom path to take your low vibrating emotions and attachments and misdirected energy and emotions and transmute them into an energetic decision with a higher and much more effective vibration that frees both you and the other person or persons to become all we are destined to be here on planet earth. It is time.
I encourage you to reflect on the following points:
- Am I enabling?
- What if I continue enabling?
- Is this high-level of freedom, light and wisdom and autonomy the better way or should I continue what I am doing now?
- How can I transmute my fears and indecision into quick and effective and highly vibrating other feelings and emotions? (I recommend looking into Emotion Code workers for doing this. I have a practitioner that I’d be glad to recommend if you’d like).
So, I encourage you to take the wisdom path and honor the broken people in your life by seeing them in a more empowering light. Because at their core…that’s who they are. You know that. I know that. Now, it’s time the world knows it too. May God grant freedom, peace, light and love in all your situations.
Love,
Cozett
The Catalyst 
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