RESPONSE TO A FRIEND: PART 1 OF 2
Earlier in the week, a friend reached out to ask what I had done in order to achieve a recent shift. My audio response has been transcribed + edited to share (with full permission). This is just the first of two parts I’ll release as separate posts.
THE TRANSCRIPT
The simple fact of the matter is that: everything has changed, from inside out. Everything that’s happened on this side of the New Year has been dramatic. The pendulum of mood has swung profoundly from the ache of ecstasy on one hand to the terror of sheer heartbreak on the other. And yet, that pendulum is always working (like a wrecking ball) to shatter limiting assumptions + allow the light of deeper understanding to pour through. And that’s the very thing I’m living now.
I’m choosing to be moved by that new light of understanding; to relax + to rely on deeper truth. The benefit + surprise of this is that the Truth is always simple, even obvious, once seen. This truth is that Divinity is breathing through the instrument of us to make the music of existence what it is; that every word + action + decision is enlivened by the animating force of Life itself; that never for a moment could we cease to be significant expressions of that Life.
Recognizing this, I am beginning to assume that I am sheltered + directed by that light of Greater Life no matter what: a confidence that’s growing by the day. I feel allowed to be myself without the effort I have previously known. I feel no need to draft a lengthy composition on the subject or to analyze some complicated chart; I can simply meet the day for what it is + let the wonder of existence wash my soul. That is enough.
It is enough + it is much more than enough. If I’ve established balance, it has come through celebrating life - through choosing to regard it as a gift. It’s come through knowing that the Presence we call God is not some far idea, but the underlying truth of all that is. It’s come through sensing my connection to this truth as promise + protection, guidance + expression, breath + bone.
Simple celebration: that is all. This has been my greatest inner work.
CONTINUED…
PART 2 of this response will follow in a separate post. Thank you for reading!