The Grand Debut: Meditation #5
I wanted to call the day of being born a magnificent debut because that is precisely how I conceive it. I remember reading a children's book that described for the reader how, when he or she was born, aquatic creatures held their breath to see who had come to join life on earth, the winged beings who fluttered in the air hovered like hummingbirds in awe, and creepers
and crawlers, trotters and runners, two footed and four, on every corner of every land mass, felt the presence of a new life coming to join their existence on Earth, hoping this was a Builder, a Defender, knowing each new human life had the potential to be a ray of life, of hope and love.
We are each born into homes where our arrival required preparation, nesting and anticipation. The practicalities of our needs were tended, in varying degrees of comfort, and we thrived and grew. Yet, every one of us carried within the desire to create, to be something specific and unique in the world, a sacred seed of potential. Perhaps the environment in which we were brought up fed our physical growth, but not always tended to the longing and need for meaning that our souls longed for. The tide of urgency ebbs and flows, but we can all recognize the thrust of a dream, an intense desire, a calling.
When we were born, this drive of spirit was intact, housed within our hearts, postponed until our bodies, minds and souls evolved. Life in its twisted paths and labyrinths distracts us so efficiently that we often forget, some of us willfully choose to ignore, those flickers of passion.
Today we are reborn, and we will release our hearts, let them soar on fluttering wings in order to remind us what it is that was planted within, a desire for transcendence, a beacon of light that does not doubt, fear or withdraw. We are also summoned to be each other's midwives, and accompany and encourage the re-birth of confidence, of faith, of belief, desire and joy, all that is needed is love.
Celebrate your birth this week, have a party if possible, balloons, cake and guests would be great, and renew your contract with life, commit to live like you mean it, and hold on to the wonder and enthusiasm in a baby's eyes. You are a dazzling star on a Grand Debut!
We are each born into homes where our arrival required preparation, nesting and anticipation. The practicalities of our needs were tended, in varying degrees of comfort, and we thrived and grew. Yet, every one of us carried within the desire to create, to be something specific and unique in the world, a sacred seed of potential. Perhaps the environment in which we were brought up fed our physical growth, but not always tended to the longing and need for meaning that our souls longed for. The tide of urgency ebbs and flows, but we can all recognize the thrust of a dream, an intense desire, a calling.
When we were born, this drive of spirit was intact, housed within our hearts, postponed until our bodies, minds and souls evolved. Life in its twisted paths and labyrinths distracts us so efficiently that we often forget, some of us willfully choose to ignore, those flickers of passion.
Today we are reborn, and we will release our hearts, let them soar on fluttering wings in order to remind us what it is that was planted within, a desire for transcendence, a beacon of light that does not doubt, fear or withdraw. We are also summoned to be each other's midwives, and accompany and encourage the re-birth of confidence, of faith, of belief, desire and joy, all that is needed is love.
Celebrate your birth this week, have a party if possible, balloons, cake and guests would be great, and renew your contract with life, commit to live like you mean it, and hold on to the wonder and enthusiasm in a baby's eyes. You are a dazzling star on a Grand Debut!
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