More on becoming - note about where we go, but who we are

So, a bit more on becoming. What I hold to be true is that becoming a mom has us become more of who we are as women, as human beings, as leaders and colleagues, as wives and contributors in all sorts of ways; where we have been blocked; where we have been freed, where I haven’t even named it or where it feels unnameable. I have also recently learned that a core precept of Judaism - “I am that I am” - is really about becoming, that God was considered the God of Becoming- "I shall be that I shall be." As a Jew, also for me a practicing of becoming, not one of just belonging without question or agitation even, I feel this deeply. Being Jewish is also about who we be by what we do in the world - Tikkun Olam - it is our responsibility to repair the fissure in the world's core with our goodness, generosity with love. This is where we become, by being more of who we already are, at least who we aspire to be.

A dear friend reminded me this weekend that this isn't about anything to acquire or change. It is rather about what is already there, already HERE inside me, inside each of us. It is more a matter of the way we fertilize and till the soil, water it, give it the sunlight to grow. Yes, it isn't a from-to proposition, but rather a be-do-know one. I become by being, doing from there, knowing deeply that this is "me," even if, as Buddhists would suggest the "I" continues to be a swinging door.