Poise for the Runway of Your Life

June 18, 2008

As you may know, there are many descriptions for “Runway”.  
Today we will focus on the usage of “a stage or a platform 
that we act on”. We will talk about the runway on which we 
act out our lives. 
 
How many of you have seen models poised on the runway? How 
was their posture while performing their actions? Were the 
models standing straight, upright in appearance? Did you 
see their shoulders in place, like a soldier in a proud 
uniform?  
 
At age 51, I became an Elite Lifestyle Model in Atlanta, 
which was my childhood dream. 
The only way I was about to get this contract was—in 
faith—to relocate and reposition myself on a runway in 
Georgia. This started my new transition, as I had to leave 
behind my comfort zone in Nashville. Was I up for the 
challenge, I asked myself? I also wondered how poised I 
was to make this change all by myself (although I knew the 
Holy Spirit was with me).  
 
The noun “Poise” means: “to bring into or hold in balance, 
maintain in equilibrium.” One of the meanings of “Balance” 
is “the power or authority to decide and determine”. The 
word “Poise” is also used to refer to: “repose and dignity 
in manner of self-possession.” “Repose” is defined as: 
“confidence or hope within”.  
 
Everything, my dear ones, starts within your soul and then 
radiates from the inside to the outside. Let’s say it’s 
time to make a move in your career, and you are off balance 
because of fear, doubt or worry. What if you held in your 
mind’s eye what you wanted to create for your career and 
held that space in “confidence or a hope within”? What 
would your spirit feel like then? Do you have the 
authority to make an important decision that will determine 
your position on the runway of your life? 
 
Here’s another way to look at runways: An airplane lands 
or taxis into one runway—where it goes to clean up, fuel up 
and reload with passengers—only to take off again from 
another runway for another destination. The airplane is 
able to take off again only after preparation.  
 
In all situations of life, you must examine your motives.  
What are the inner questions that you must pose to make the 
right decisions for good in your life? Ask yourself, how 
have you expressed poise within yourself while acting out 
on your runway of life? Is your head positioned up or 
down? Is it focused in attention? When going through a 
“valley” of what you have perceived as a mishap in your 
life—a failure, a transition, a family crisis, or what 
appeared to be a loss—how was your posture? Can you think 
about the lessons learned while living out your “runway” 
experiences? Did you have a frown or a smile while on your 
runway?  
Did you know that you are the writer, creator, casting 
director, actor, and producer of your life to be played out 
on the runway?! For me, the Holy Spirit is the Guiding 
Force of my life—the main Director! My life is a play 
guided by God. 
 
It’s been one year now since my destined journey from 
Nashville, Tennessee to a new runway: the little country 
town of Carrollton, Georgia. Over this past year, many have 
asked me how I could have left my children (who are all 
adults) to follow my dreams. A few have questioned my 
chances for survival in Carrollton, i.e., did I make the 
right choice? Others have called me and told me they were 
praying for my destined success in Georgia. Regardless of 
what other people said, once I said YES to the Holy Spirit, 
the guide of my life, I made preparation for the journey by 
selling every big thing I had in my apartment. I did this 
in order to pursue my childhood dream. It has been a Faith 
experience I will never forget.  
 
Do you really know what the dictionary says about Faith?  
“Faith” is defined as: “confidence in a statement or thing 
as trustworthy”. Also, “belief in God or in scriptures or 
other religious writings” (Standard Encyclopedic 
Dictionary). It has been said that “Faith without action is 
dead”. So I made a choice to integrate the two—Faith and 
action—and then to step into my destiny.  
 
Once I was coming down the runway of my life to meet with 
Elite in Atlanta, I remembered what an old sage had told me 
when I was nineteen. She said that I would not be happy 
until I was living in Atlanta and working in performing 
arts! I didn’t understand this at the time, because back 
when I was young, modeling wasn’t the performing art it is 
now.  
 
So after consulting the Holy Spirit about my decision to 
move and sell everything, it was time to figure out where I 
was going to live. My cousin in California owned a house 
in Carrollton GA, where his son had lived for college. I 
called the cousin and his wife to see if I could rent a 
room. At the time, they still had students living 
there—who were not paying their rent. What my family 
didn’t know was that the students had torn everything up in 
the brand new house!  
 
When I arrived, I felt that it was time for me to go to 
work on saving my cousin’s home, restoring it back to good 
condition. Most women would have driven up to this mess and 
then turned around and gone back to safety. Not me! I 
reclaimed my cousins’ house for them. Within two 
weeks—while my family was still typing up an eviction 
notice—the students were gone. The students broke into the 
home several times while I was living there. Finally we 
installed Brinks security, and I had a safe place to live!  
 
 
After all the work was done to restore the home back to its 
order, it was my time to create my career path and personal 
journey in life. This seasonal “stage” or “runway” was 
very different for me, as it was very quiet living in the 
country. I was able to contemplate, pray, read, write, and 
create, without distraction of any kind. I called this a 
“soul renewal”. There is a time and season for all things 
to come to pass in our lives. We must discern which season 
we are acting out. Biblical scriptures clearly instruct, 
“Be still and know that I Am God.”  
 
I ask you to stop here and ponder, meditate or contemplate 
on your new poise for the runway of your life. Examine, in 
silence and quiet contemplation, what is needed for you to 
go to the next stage or runway. It is in the silence that 
the work of manifesting starts, according to the “Law of 
Attraction”. 
 
Charles Fillmore, founder of the Unity Movement, perceived 
that we all have spiritual support through calling up the 
Twelve Powers, or twelve inner disciples inside each 
person. Many New Thought churches teach these principles.  
Here are the 12 Powers: Faith, Love, Strength, Wisdom, 
Power, Imagination, Understanding, Will, Order, Zeal, 
Elimination and Life. For more on the 12 Powers: 
http://www.sheaministries.org/powers/index.htm  
 
You can call on these inner powers at any time. With Faith 
symbolized by deep blue in the center of your brain; Love 
radiating in pink from your heart center; and Wisdom in 
yellow rays from the intuitive core of your solar plexus, 
you have all you need to develop your inner poise. Using 
your mind and heart to think and feel, use your 
Imagination, your Faith, your Will and Understanding to 
achieve your desired manifestations. 
 
And from James 1:5-6 (NKJV) “If any of you lack wisdom, let 
him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without 
reproach (no blaming), and it will be given to him . . . . 
But let him ask in faith with no doubting (questioning), 
for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and 
tossed by the wind.” 
 
How poised are you? Do you seek directions from a higher 
source than yourself? Go within your soul and with your 
mind’s eyes, use your inner powers, calling especially on 
Faith. Seek and you shall find your answers within yourself!