Good morning my lovelies
Yesterday I began an Intentional Journey
of Body and Spiritual Health.30 days
delving deep into these aspects of myself
I have answered a Sacred Call
that came after a deep healing within
and so I step into this next 29
surrendering to what is to come...
I will share more of what this looks like later
as this does have structure
This morning I felt compelled to share with you
an inspirational writing that I have
in
THE BIG BOOK
I unfortunately do not recall
where I reaped this from
but it is a beautiful reflection
of
The Journey
Answering
The Call is to turn to a new path; to begin moving another direction,
usually into darkening forests whose trails are narrow and obscured.
Contained within The Call is the imperative to walk away from what is
currently before you- the leave-taking of a previous path- to wander,
seemingly aimlessly at times, a wooded night.
There
may be others on that current pathway with you. They stare as you
move away. Some are stunned, or angry. Some shake their head in
disappointment or fear for the loss of your presence and agreement.
As you move away from the company of Those
Who Think Like Me,
you begin to realize that you haven't
thought like them for some time now. The thought of continuing on as
you have for so long is causing such a rift that it threatens to
divide you from your very essence. If you don't finally answer this
time, The Call may never come to you again. You can't risk that
possibility.
So
you begin to trudge through poison oak, nettles and briar patches,
scratched and scraped, tired and thirsty. There is no room at the
inn- you are called to the Wild Woods, and there you will remain,
because you know that only in those wild places will you finally come
upon what you have always searched for.
To
answer The Call is to change your name, releasing the syllables and
sounds of your former self to adopt your rightful title. You are no
longer Compliance, Prudence, Chastity. You stop trying to write
beautifully, and begin writing what is true. Your identity is finally
stripped down to only what is real for you- your new name, your
oldest name that is- Wildish, Untamed, Powerful, and your handwriting
is scrawling, fast and recognizable only to those who write the same
way. The Call demands this of you.
The
Call is a growing pain that begins at the center and radiates outward
to singe and burn away everything it touches that cannot last. This
is the very nature of change and metamorphosis. For the shedding of
skin into a new being is intrinsically painful. I have stopped trying
to avoid pain. But pain is only part of the story. What remains is
strong, resilient, and worthy. Everything else is a skin fit for
then, and we can
find the courage to let it go in favor of now.
Along
the way, you will meet up with sisters who have answered their own
calls. After years of trudging alone to the single note of our own
call, we begin to sense first, then to see their dirt-smudged,
tear-streaked faces. Their scars look comfortingly similar to our
own. We are a ragtag tribe of outcasts, moon howling, spiritual
homesteaders. The notes of our own call begin to merge and blend, and
we become a symphony of stragglers, circling in sacred ritual- we are
never truly alone. Our wounds are treasure maps tracing our stories
back to the moment we said no,
enough, no more, now, this time, my time.
They bind us, these wounds, these calls, one to another on this dark
wooded path.
To
answer The Call is to choose a life outside what anyone else deems
worthy, understandable, logical. We are heralded by some as
over-emotional, ridiculous, dramatic, eccentric, strange, weird,
unnatural. Others like us will recognize themselves in our journey,
our words, our artwork, our altars, our homegrown vegetables and
homespun clothes. They will feel they are home when they smell
lavender at our neck and see sage on our tables.
Our
legacy is red, and burns with a passion we cannot contain so that it
seeps out and stains our daughters and sons, marking them for a new
way of life that emerges- because we were brave enough to answer a
Call.
(author unknown)
and how have you answered?
I will meet you on the trail
my sisters....
Love and Light
