This is a season of Light.
Light that has continued to be provided. Light that has been promised. Light that has come. Light that returns. Light that acknowledges gifts. We are here to live and be and shine that light. Sometimes we feel like our light has been dampened, shadowed, or nearly extinguished. We may feel disconnected from Larger light. No matter how dark our lives may seem, a spark still lives in us. It is our task in life to find that spark and to fan it into a flame.
"Love is a tower of light. Inside, blazing fire."
--Jelaluddin Rumi
We are here to live our lives. Sometimes that's an easy thing to do, and other times we are clueless as to how to proceed. Living a life of authenticity has been my motivation always. It has been built into me that this way of living is the only satisfying way for me to live. And still it is challenging to know what my authentic life looks like. It's constantly changing, rearranging, opening, turning, and sending me down paths I would not have imagined. My best thought about living my life authentically is that it is done most truly when I completely let it happen without interference. And when I stay connected to my wild energy. Not crazy energy, just true self energy. I find myself well-supported at this point of intersection with All That Is.
"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."
--Abraham Joshua Heschel
Life is a journey with unbelievable twists and turns. Opportunity has knocked, and I hardly recognize it as my life. I know it is my life, because I am co-creating it with the Universe. But it is calling forward previously unexplored parts of myself. I am growing and being and learning and expanding and asking and wondering. Walking down the Unknown trail is the largest sort of adventure. I have asked to be shown, and that is happening. I feel grateful for my life, filled with every unfamiliar grace.
"Here...is a powerful mantra that will encourage the process of release and acceptance of the true nature of your divinity: 'I am love, I give love, I accept love, I believe in love, I extend love, I am always becoming love.'"
--Meredith L. Young-Sowers
I am learning infinite patience. I believe in opportunity. I also believe that "opportunity knocks." I am opening to powerful opportunities that will contribute to my life changes. I know that I am a person who can make the most of opportunities that come my way, whether they are large or small. But there's the issue of waiting. I may think it's time for an opportunity to arise, but the Universe may be in a different time frame. Waiting in the moments of each day is part of this process. If a person isn't being present, or is preoccupied with distracting busy-ness, an opportunity may go unnoticed. I am in the Mystery of staying open and unencumbered by distractions. Watching with an alert, but not grasping, attitude. This will allow me the freedom and wisdom to act on an opportunity that's custom-made for me.
"The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. We know that in everything God works for good with those who love God."
--St. Paul
Persevering. This is where I live. It has been a long road. Challenges have abounded. Hand-in-hand have been many joys and much growth.
Another idea has been present through my days: persistence. Old beliefs and thoughts have been persistent, possibly even insidious, requiring me to persevere as I dream myself into my life. Continued, patient effort has brought me to this place. Remaining steadfast in the face of opposition is my focus. I am overcoming and becoming my full self.
"Inner authority comes not from immediate material or spiritual 'success' but from perseverance. You gain inner authority with the belief and inner expectation that you do have an essential inner beauty that is priceless, worth struggling to uncover and to know."
--Meredith L. Young-Sowers
When we try something new, we look for experiences or feedback that will affirm that we are doing well, succeeding, or learning what we need to learn. We might say we are looking for a light to guide us. Sometimes in the process of doing something new, we are just steadfastly putting one foot in front of the other, not knowing what's fully happening or exactly where we are in that process. We are in a place that some have described as a "dark night of the soul." These are times when we feel like we don't know anything, and we must rely on beliefs in the power of Love, the gift of Life, and the truth that "all things work together for the good." I am in this place. It's fairly uncomfortable, but it's honest. I am staying open to the emergence of a new expression of my life.
"I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' And he said unto me, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. It shall be unto you better than light and safer than a known way.' "
--M. Louise Haskins
I am experiencing Love in ways I never have before. I am being guided each day toward new ways of living my life. I am following my heart, and creating a foundation for my life and my art. Each day feels like a miracle because I am making connections that fit, and that move me forward. Though they feel like small beginnings there is a largeness about the movement. I am being carried on the river of my life's unfolding. There is strength in my Being.
"Love just is; golden in its simplicity."
--Author Unknown
"There are only two ways to live your life--as if nothing is a miracle, or everything is a miracle."
--Albert Einstein
