How Is Life Moving Me?

Early Morning Snow on the Peaks

How is Life moving you? The question arose yesterday in conversation with a trusted guide and friend. As I reflected afterwards, I realized that, without those exact words, I’ve been deeply in just that inquiry in recent weeks. Months really, but I’ve especially felt its intensity in the last few weeks as the question what is mine to do? arose in several situations that presented themselves on my path, including one that was a ‘Big Ask’ from a family member.

There’s no need to be an oracle of the obvious and tell you that we are living in an intense time. The evidence is all around. Someone, perhaps many, in your circle of family and friends, or perhaps even you, find themselves in crisis. The human train of tragedy, violence, cruelty, and war is an epidemic of misery, suffering, and death as the black magic of fear is perpetuated on many fronts from many sources. The earth is quaking and exploding, drying out in some areas, while inundating others. The sun is hurling solar flares and coronal mass ejections. And the planets in our solar system have been aligning and interacting with one another in ways that point to the end of old and the beginning of new cycles, inviting us into change and transformation, within us and in our world.

We are not who we were six months ago. We have been, we are, and we will continue to find ourselves at crossroads, opportunities to choose the habits of the old or to create new stories, new ways forward. As these crossroads come to me, I’m finding that a key question is, how is Life moving me in THIS?

I’ve discovered that inquiring in this way has the potential to shift the stress of immediately deciding what should I do? Or even how will I respond? It opens my heart to ask Life what she needs and wants in this moment, at this choice point. For me this is a very different energy and perspective, and it is somehow freeing and expansive rather than limiting my choices. A blank canvas rather than an either/or, this or that, yes/no challenge. An opportunity to write a new story, forge a new path.

Imagine for a moment letting this question lead in your world, your choices, your crossroads. Imagine opening the door and inviting What is Life Moving in Me in for a cup of tea. Perhaps a longer visit or even becoming a companion on the road of life. Imagine inquiring, what does Life need in my expression of Life now?

Now, imagine a world where this question leads. What does Life need? Imagine leaders in business, government, politics, technology, etc. asking it. Pollyanna? Perhaps. But I believe that they will if we are bold enough to ask it first of ourselves and then if we envision and demand it. For most have likely never heard such a question, much less been invited to ask it. And, while we may loathe how they lead today, Life is not served if we view them as enemy or ‘other’ for we are not separate.

We are One, and somewhere deep within each of us lies memory of the new and ancient truth that Life does not need suffering, war, fear, horror, or cruelty. Life needs kindness, harmony, understanding, joy, nurturing, laughter, dance, play. Life needs LOVE. Life IS LOVE.

Amidst the chaos and cruelty, I’m dreaming this dream and holding this possibility. In this moment that is How Life is moving me. What about you? Are you ready to build a new story from that!

Foothills, Ziggurat, Valley and Mountains Beyond