Coming to terms with what IS
What do we do with the gift of time and a slower pace to life?
It takes time to transition and adjust.
There is a cost.
And there are benefits.
In some areas of my life I have still been very active:
holding space and embracing new ways to be together,
even ways I have previously resisted and now see the benefit of sharing.
In other ways, I have been silent:
listening, watching, and resting.
Waiting.
Incubating.
If we are to truly make use of the potential of this period of global change multiple modes will be required:
Acceptance of the previously rejected.
Creation of new forms.
Realigning with what's really important.
Remembering the lessons of childhood before life jaded us:
To share what we have with each other
and take naps in the afternoon.
To realize the power of nature of which we are all inseparably a part.
Boundaries that do not really exist are crossed by a single celled organism that can fell us despite all our attempts to control the planet, our borders, and each other, and treat our mother earth as something we can endlessly exploit.
I admit I am slow to accept change that I do not desire or think desirable,
and to be frustrated with others who see the opposite view.
It is the lesson of a lifetime to accept that we all have our roles to play,
to make my peace with what is mine and not mine,
yet essential to the whole.
I wish for change to come from a place of well-meaning for the many,
rather than the further enrichment of the fearful, greedy, and few.
And yet I know intimately the power fear has
to corrupt, hijack, and drive our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
None of us are immune from its power to control us,
No more than we are immune to this newest simple form of nature
that has arisen as we all once did
from a desire to live.
Let us live.
Let us re-learn to live well.
Let us remember how to live in harmony with ourselves, each other, and the whole of creation.
Because what is denied, eventually will arise.
All will eventually have their time,
and in time, all will pass away again.
It is the teaching of the scriptures that we need not fear what is,
rather we need to see it clearly.
Our path is to see the Truth of life,
To stop trying to bend it to our will.
To take the actions that are ours to take,
and to be of service to each other.
We gather the wisdom and strength to perform these actions
by surrendering to rest in the arms of the Divine that holds us.
To survive and even thrive in these times, may we:
All take the actions that are ours to take,
Be of service to each other in our way,
Rest in the deep knowledge that all are loved,
all are essential as we are,
and we are all in this together.
Namaste, Amen, Awen, AUM.
In shalah, shalom, shanti.
Friday 27 March 2020
Lisa Kaley-Isley
London, UK
