DAILY Out of difficulties, the extra-ordinary creates itself. In constricted cycles, expanded visions appear. In times of fear, courage increases. Being in the midst of yet another problematic, constricting cycle, it is difficult to stand outside mundane home-ground to behold sublime visitations and visions. It feels impossible to find time in a present so over-filled with to do’s that we can’t stop to perceive the miraculous erupting around us. In 1982 the most adorable alien we’d met to date told us to ‘phone home.’ Remember? That time was a cycle of financial tremblings like much like this present one, with high interest rates, job insecurity, and shaky economics. Like then, there are potent forces of creative potential to actualize next steps. With so much distraction, we need to be precise about objectives. It is important to get clear about not only who we are but the miracles we expect. Adorable aliens aside, it is a time when the mundane and the miraculous live side by side, and we need 3-D vision tuned in at all times. Part of our present difficulty may be that we have lost the faith we still held back then? Perhaps that, more than anything else is what we need to retrieve. Does if feel we have lost our way? Squandered all belief in the intrinsic goodness of our humanness? That the mad-dogs are winning? And that trashy gossip has overcome decent sensibilities? As cycles go, this one is a doozey, but it will end, as ALL cycles do. We will move from these contracted fears to greater possibility, just as we will move from being the world’s power base– to not. Nothing lasts, not even the good stuff. It feels it is time to phone home for hope, faith, courage, and Grace. If we are fortunate,… Read more »
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