Stormy Weather - Blessed Moisture
Soul Awakening
Heart Opening
Light Shining
Love Flowing
Peace Radiating
(James O’Dea, Soul Awakening Prayer)
Often a quote I’ve read or something I’ve heard provides the spark of a Pivot muse. This week the flow reversed. After the ink landed on the pages of my journal, I was guided to James O’Dea’s Soul Awakening Prayer, which seems in divine support of pivoting toward Life and maintaining that pivot in our choices moment to moment, day to day. I’m carrying it in my heart this week. Perhaps you will too.
The flow of Life seems to want to take us in different directions than those who continue to attempt to control using brutal tools of force to continue the false and misguided ways of separation.
Contrarian that I am, I continue to imagine Life fully lived as Nature lives, the nature that is unity, interdependence, and interconnectedness. Living in the flow that IS Life. Allowing Life to guide choices even as I’m entrenched in the systems of separation that have little regard for you, for me, for Life itself.
This week’s blessed moisture, unusual for Colorado in October, has changed the landscape. Cottonwood Creek nearby is running strong and high at a time when it is usually a quiet, narrow stream if it’s flowing at all. Clouds have shrouded the mountains for several days, and a chill in the air has drawn me to build the season’s first morning fire in the wood stove. The Mountain I gaze upon each morning has been hidden by the clouds leading me to feeling a bit disoriented in its visual absence. But the Mountain, ever attuned to Life, offered a gentle reminder of its presence: You are the Mountain. The Mountain is You.
In a world breaking apart with unfathomable brutality being perpetuated, it isn’t easy to believe in the possible unfolding of something greater than our limited human eyes can see and to pivot to what is possible (perhaps inevitable) when we align with Life. But in our choices moment to moment, we can do this. Indeed, it seems we must!
Do I become angry with the contractor for the rain delay starting my project? Or will I bless the rain and trust that his crew will be here in divine perfect time? Can I find it in me to bless those whose fast speed stirs dust and has me feel unsafe on my daily walks? Can I withhold a snarky comment or, even better, eliminate ‘snark’ in my field of being? Can I speak my truth from an open heart allowing love to flow and peace to radiate, which surely is what pivoting toward Life is all about?
Can I face a future that seems more uncertain than ever with hope, with trust, with love, with confidence, and with care? Can I pivot toward Life, embracing and maintaining its offering with grace, trusting Life’s perfect unfolding?
Will I awaken my soul, open my heart, shine my light, flow with love, and radiate peace on behalf of Life in our tender world? Will you?
Mighty Flow in Cottonwood Creek