Do you remember having an encounter that seems to capture
you but yet releases you? It is difficult to describe actually. When I tried explaining it to myself I
thought of the replacement of the wolves in Yellowstone Park. A beautiful creature is moved from a place of
danger from its environment as well as a danger to its environment. They are captured and then take to a safer
place… captured yet release into a place that provides and protects.
What are some of the words that capture you today? Are they words that release you or are they
words that restrict you?
Here are some that have been in my thoughts this morning… happiness, sadness, hope, fear, trust,
peace, stillness, contentment, and perception.
Each have separate meaning yet many of them seem to be
intertwined with each other. Sometimes they seem so desperate for meaning, as
if they are too limiting. However, here
is where I presently reside with each of them.
Happiness and sadness – emotions that are attached to the
present. They are based on how we feel at the moment based on our interpretation
of the current environment we find ourselves in…
Hope and fear –
emotions that connect with the future. They are dependent upon our perspective
view of life and potential events. Our perspective view is going to determine
which one of these is going to be the dominant emotion. It is the farthest away
from our present situation yet it seems to be one that dictates how we live
with the present emotion.
Trust - an emotion
that sees the living around us and either causes us to hold on tightly to what
we have held on to for so long or causes us to let go to explore the
possibility.
Peace – it is the
undercurrent that holds up our present emotion.
When our peace becomes thin the more turbulent the “waters of our soul”
becomes and allows us to drift to the more unsettling perceptions.
Stillness and
contentment – the bonds that create trust. When we encounter someone that personifies
these two traits alone there is something within us that says that we can dwell
in trust. These are the two arms that hold us as we let go of our present
emotion of self-doubt.
Perception – the hand
that holds the key to our freedom of being or locks us in a cage of negativity.
This is the emotion that determines which one of the present time and future
time emotions that we will choose from.
John O’Donohue writes in his book Eternal Echoes, the
following:
“One of our sacred duties is to be open and faithful to
the subtle voices of the universe which come alive in our longing.”
No matter our faith or non-faith… our age, race, or gender… our
economic status of having or wanting… the words that we choose to reside with
this morning will determine the perception that we have throughout the rest of
the day. And what word we choose to
reside with is determined by the perception that we have at this moment.
Namaste…… shalom…. Peace and Light…
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