I doubt many are reading any of what I write… but alas, here it is.
My life right now is a mixed bag of joy, sadness, struggle and joy. Daily I awake and find myself challenged by what lay ahead. I push ahead and pursue life with high energy and often enthusiasm, but inwardly I am faced with un-dealt fears, and uncertainties. What will the future bring? Any of us?
We live in a world of turmoil… economic, political, unsustainablility, etc. And that’s not even tapping into the esoteric… don’t get me started on that one!
Yet what can any of us do in a world where we as individuals are fed the foods of disempowerment? What can we do to stop the oil from leaking into our oceans? What can we do to live thoughtfully in a world where the need to live often requires so much of our individual and collective energy to be fed, bedded and “safe”.
The world is a wreck, get it?
So what to do?
Look inward, get our house in order. Find comfort in some corner of our hearts, for ourselves. It’s not selfish, it’s required. If there is not a corner to find love in our hearts, then what do we have. I for one have a ton of pain. Pain for running from my own power, my own gifts & truths. You can sit there and look back at me and say, “but do this, or do that”… but are any of us so different? What is in your heart? You and I share almost identical genes… what makes us different in a world homogenized? We ARE different, not special, not grand, not worse, but indeed different, but we all ache in this world gone mad. Whether we recognize it or not.
So when I wake at 3, 4 am in the morning I ground, I pray, I journey, I seek my faith and I find it in the truth of who I am beneath the crust of masks I wear through the day. In the real self below those masks that awaits eagerly to be let free.
Be at peace with your masks… “just be strong for me, I’ll be strong for you” (micheal franti)
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