Saturday, April 11, 2020

We Burn and We Rise




Our experience enters us and moves us. What we often fail to realize is that it comes from us.

The way we see the world and others colors the way we respond. It’s all interconnected. It’s in our stars because it is in us.

Right now the future seems bleak to some and hopeful to others. It’s not without its sadnesses in either case, but some have not let their experiences truly enter them. Though it comes from us, our destiny is not complete without letting it come back to land within our hearts as the hummingbird comes to rest on the branch, its tremendous energy slowed to knowing.

I feel as though I’m skimming the surface of this challenging experience shared by just about everyone on the planet. I feel that if I take it in and let it land within me, my heart will do more than break under the weight of it. I fear it will burn it to ashes.

A broken heart is something I’ve learned to embrace. But this pandemic experience feels different. Then again, maybe it’s not so different than all the pain billions experience every day. Maybe it’s what is coming from within that I can’t bear. All the fear and anxiety that has built up in me over my lifetime, I haven’t learned to let it go so it’s not my main experience of everything.

This is a moment of reckoning for me and for many individually, and it is one for the entire human world. And because of what we brought to our world, all beings are affected.

Resurrection lives in reckoning. I can let the weight of this moment land within me. We all can. It will hurt. Our hearts will burn to ash. Our lives will never be the same. But like the phoenix, we will rise from the ashes of our being. No longer burdened by pain, we will use it to gain greater perspective and through this fully feel compassion for all that lives and breathes on Earth and all that moves and has it’s being beyond this weary world.

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