God and Life

I have discovered I am using the words God and Life interchangeably. I realize that God is so integrated into my life and into my Being that there is no separation. God lives in my breath and I in God's.

Clothes Blowing on the Line

"And some, like me, are just beginning to guess at the powerful religion of ordinary life, a spirituality of freshly mopped floors and stacked dishes and clothes blowing on the line."
-Adair Lara

Earth's Journey

The Wabash River is swollen with her water and the trees stand with buried trunks. The rhythm here is just right despite the shifting. The earth is calling out to listen and healing us as we work to heal her. The path runs both ways. She, too, is bringing herself into the present by honoring her history and throwing off what no longer serves the highest good. Why am I surprised that she is going through a similar process as we have been? Of course she is. She is alive and spirit-filled. I can feel her rotation as if it's me. Her rhythm is within me like our heartbeats just met and mingled. Our connection is strong and getting stronger. We are listening and she is glad.

The subtle energies just got stronger and my seeing, hearing, smelling, and feelings just got upped. I feel more alive and more present and more powerful than ever before and yet humbled by the power of what can rock our world. Where will we go from here? Will our awakened state continue? Will we realize that the earth's journey is about much, much more than just the human path? Will we return to honoring the animals and all that lives here? I hope so. I am doing my best to get there. I'm doing my best to help others that are led to work with me.

All the world wants is for us to be ourselves, our Core selves, that part of us that knows and trusts the knowing. It's so simple and yet we can make it so complex. Why do we do that? Let's be with the simple and profound in that place where they live together.

Dance!

The forming of our circle this morning was a bit more intentional as I chose to call out each of your names as an invitation to our gathering. I could see the web of life containing all of your lights shining from within. What a glorious sight on this sun filled Monday. Welcome! I am glad you are here.

We are gathered among the trees again and there is the crunchiness of about an inch of snow beneath our feet. It will melt soon as winter wanes. Before it goes, let's celebrate the cleansing and the purity of its presence. I invite you to take your place in the wide openness among the bare limbs and settle into yourself. A few deep breaths and an intention of connecting brings us to that place deep within that holds the seeds of self.

Movement is brewing from within our bodies and we follow the calling by doing the unique dance of who we are. I invite you to begin your dance one movement at a time. Go at your pace. No comparing or worrying about others. Be with yourself and the stirrings of your soul. Maybe you will barely move or perhaps you will give way to your wild side. Just be with what is right for you right now. Perhaps at some point you will feel like you are being danced instead of doing the dancing. If that happens, I invite you to call out 'Dance Me, Dance Me.' Feel the effortless movement of being danced by life.

It is like when I am drumming and at some point I'm being drummed instead of drumming. In that moment, I have met the flow of life and it has taken me to a new place I couldn't have gotten to on my own. Enjoy the rhythm of You that connects to the rhythm of All.