June 22, 2020
From early on I took note of the energy behind the nib of a writing instrument. While writing, your entire body becomes part of the flow. You lean in to a thought, move to the right or left when challenged with an idea or dream, push harder into the paper while trying to express and lightly rub the page with your opposite hand when trying to further the mental location. Handing writing not typing moves the mind, body and soul in the way of fueling the process of memory. It lasts much longer than a spur of the moment unspoken verbal crossing. Twenty one years after starting a daily writing journey I elected to make prayer not just available to my inner self but to all things living after. Meaning, instead of prayer like so many, the moment and or message would be written out. To reflect upon. To study. To document what moves through you while receiving. Yesterday was one of those writing moments where something latched onto my heart and clearly said, “Make the path possible.” The exact words were, “For there to be peace, we must equally be loved. And in this moment of now there can be a new level of togetherness but it’s going to require the existence of all that is now and not a heart locked-in on history.” Too many of our decisions and reasons behind creating a reaction are based on and fed by the roots of something already lived. What if we begin living forward? Your parents had parents who had parents who had parents. One of those parents is probably the real reason why you do as you do. But none of those parents have a voice in the say. You are because someone was. That being said. Someone will and can be… Because you chose today to break the vine and live in forward walks and ways. “For there to be peace, we must equally be loved. And in this moment of now there can be a new level of togetherness but it’s going to require the existence of all that is now and not a heart locked-in on history.” So what does any of this have to do with the opening thoughts about prayer? I don’t have the true numbers but something tells me a lot of prayer has been shared over the past four months of a pandemic, injustice, a rising recession, political news and this huge dust storm that will be entering the southern part of the country this week from another area of the world. A lot of prayer! You see the headlines and hear the talk. “For there to be peace, we must equally be loved. And in this moment of now there can be a new level of togetherness but it’s going to require the existence of all that is now and not a heart locked-in on history.” Too many of our decisions and reasons behind creating a reaction are based on and fed by the roots of something already lived. Break the vine and live in forward walks and ways. Someone will and can be…