You know how it is when you are hungry for a certain food and can't get enough of it? Well, that's the kind of hunger Life has for ItSelf. And guess who has the job of meeting that hunger?

You and only you.

That's why you're here. To be the eyes and ears and nose and skin of Life. To be the experience that Life is always ready and willing to have.

As a long-time life avoider (which I didn't know the extent of until now) it really is amazing to be open wide to Life. I knew I had a lot of fears about "bad things" happening to me or around me, but I didn't know how much fear was holding me hostage--keeping me from my natural curiosity and enthusiasm for Life and what it was going to bring me next.

There must have been a time as a child that I felt what I am feeling today--excited and curious and fearless about living. I know in my heart I was born that way. But for me, (and I suspect for many of us) something happened to change that--and I don't even know what it was.

Something (or things) happened so long ago and scared me so badly that when I looked at the world around me, I saw a sign that read "Danger: Being here can be hazardous to your well-being." Or worse "Watch where you step…Living can kill you."

And before I knew it, I was married to fear. It became my constant companion, always walking ahead of me to make sure there wasn't danger ahead. I never realized it was the fear that was the danger. That my so-called protector--or rather the belief that I needed protection--robbed me of being a fully engaged participant in this amazing experience called Life.

And surely I didn't know that I was depriving Life of a complete and joyous experience of ItSelf. That every day I stayed wed to fear I was shutting down my very Life Force, my ability to really be here, my enormous appetite for life and It's appetite for ItSelf. (We are Life, after all.)

We are not meant to cower in the shadows of existence or to be a bystander here. We are not meant to worship fear and have it dictate how we should act and who we should be. We are not meant to be small, shivering versions of ourselves always tiptoe-ing around life so we don't disturb things. We are not meant to have to take pills (or take other anesthetic measures, legal or otherwise) for anxiety just so we can make it through a day and leave our house or be around people.

We are an Open Book that Life is writing every second of every day--every moment fresh and new and exciting even in the quiet of it. "Boring" is not in Life's vocabulary. "Same experience, different day" is not what we are put here to endure.

We only repeat things over and over again when we are stuck in a groove because we don't know how to or are afraid to step out of it. We only shortchange ourselves and keep ourselves from discovering the treasure house that is our birthright when we don't stop and question the poverty that makes up our days.

If you sense as you are reading this that you, too, have been a hostage to fear, don't worry. There is a bold, fearless enthusiast in you, too, who is just waiting for you to set her free. And all he wants you to do is go on a rescue mission onto the heart of yourself.

Ask for guidance (just a thought that says "Help me") and you will be shown the way. And once you start, don't stop until you are cracked wide open and spilling all over yourself--giving Life exactly what It wants: taste after taste of glorious you!