A Deer Friend Visits the Woods Out Back
Love holds no grievances. … To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. A Course in Miracles
You cannot have both a grievance and a miracle. You must choose … Marianne Williamson (interview on Next Level Soul )
As winter wanes and spring is fast approaching, a snowstorm is brewing with the potential to bring much needed moisture. Some will grumble. I say, ‘bring it on!’.
If I’m to grumble let it be about matters of deeper concern. Matters of home and hearth that I may find problematic. Matters of divisiveness, a world at war, and our clinging to violence as a solution to most any problem. When? How will we stop seeing ‘enemy’ in all that we dislike and fear? When will I?
When will we find it in ourselves to let go of our righteousness and forgive those we blame for all that we deem wrong in the world? When will we come to our senses and see the senselessness of our approach? When will I?
The questions come in the wake of hearing this idea that grievances cancel out miracles. It stirred an already simmering pot of delicious and deep reflections, some of which I’ve shared here recently. It brought me to a new level of awareness of the impact of my engagement in any grumbling no matter how minor it seems. In my grumbling and the underlying grievance that I hold, I block miracles. I don’t know about you, but I think some miracles would be pretty darn welcome in our world about now.
I saw clearly how my lack of love in any situation stands in the way of the peace my heart desires and knows is possible.
Wafting out of the simmering pot of reflections came the challenge to identify grievances that I hold and to forgive, to put love in the place of each and every one. Am I willing to do the work of bringing this light to those around whom I hold a grievance?
Am I willing to do the work so that I can behold the miracles that patiently await my action? Miracles not just in the microcosm of my life, but miracles in the greater whole of all Life. Miracles in and of community and country, in and of planet and cosmos.
What or who might I forgive today to allow a miracle somewhere tomorrow or in what is divine perfect time?
Snow on the Way???