The magic of Spring
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joyfinderhero Amazing day Saturday -- plenty of good food for mind and body. Followed by plenty of good ritual that feeds the soul. I'd been at this ritual before, a few years ago. I recalled that the Deity invoked seemed actually to be present. I remembered that some of what the aspected Deity said struck a resonance in me.
Somehow I didn't expect that, as the clergyone doing the aspecting walked around, looking so familiarly like the person I know, the God would speak through his mouth while his eyes looked right at me, saying things that are so directly relevant to my life in this moment.
Your job on this Earth is to feel fully. Your job is to fully experience your life. To enjoy every aspect of this embodiment. To delight in your joys and to grieve in your sorrows. Your task is to remain fully present to everything that comes. And to make choices that serve your intention to experience this life. If you do not do that, it does not matter to Us. If you do not do this now, you can do it tomorrow. If you do not do it in this life you can do it in the next, or the one after that. It only matters to You. And it is the only thing required of you.
This came on the heels of a marathon session with a friend who needed a guinea-pig client to practice a specific form of counseling. I learned a great deal from being asked clarifying questions. What maintains the present pattern of putting the needs of this life last? What maintains the pattern of numbing myself to my deficiencies rather than doing the work I feel called to do?
Somehow I didn't expect that, as the clergyone doing the aspecting walked around, looking so familiarly like the person I know, the God would speak through his mouth while his eyes looked right at me, saying things that are so directly relevant to my life in this moment.
Your job on this Earth is to feel fully. Your job is to fully experience your life. To enjoy every aspect of this embodiment. To delight in your joys and to grieve in your sorrows. Your task is to remain fully present to everything that comes. And to make choices that serve your intention to experience this life. If you do not do that, it does not matter to Us. If you do not do this now, you can do it tomorrow. If you do not do it in this life you can do it in the next, or the one after that. It only matters to You. And it is the only thing required of you.
This came on the heels of a marathon session with a friend who needed a guinea-pig client to practice a specific form of counseling. I learned a great deal from being asked clarifying questions. What maintains the present pattern of putting the needs of this life last? What maintains the pattern of numbing myself to my deficiencies rather than doing the work I feel called to do?
And then yesterday, a call with my team from last year's work. In which it becomes clear that this constant struggling without actually getting out of the trap is becoming tedious, even to me.
Stay tuned. Earthquakes at eleven.