2/21/2020 0 Comments Epiphanies & BlessingsI won’t lie - 2019 was a hell of a year. Rife with grief and difficulty and so many things I didn’t anticipate. I ended the year feeling totally unmoored and with little clarity.
But a lot of messages have been making their way through despite (or maybe because of) the fog. The first: You are your own medicine. 2: Seek only internal validation. 3: Keep showing up. 4: Keep softening into the work it takes to surrender and face the shadows. 5: And when the nourishment shows up - be it in the kindness and soft landing places of held space from another person, a certain slant of light hitting my face, the songs of birds in the morning while I meditate, or words that find their way to me - hold them as proof as the Divine. These words made their way to me yesterday thanks to @migrationofsun and when they found me, I wept. "For Those Who Have Far to Travel An Epiphany Blessing" If you could see the journey whole you might never undertake it; might never dare the first step that propels you from the place you have known toward the place you know not. Call it one of the mercies of the road: that we see it only by stages as it opens before us, as it comes into our keeping step by single step. There is nothing for it but to go and by our going take the vows the pilgrim takes: to be faithful to the next step; to rely on more than the map; to heed the signposts of intuition and dream; to follow the star that only you will recognize; to keep an open eye for the wonders that attend the path; to press on beyond distractions beyond fatigue beyond what would tempt you from the way. There are vows that only you will know; the secret promises for your particular path and the new ones you will need to make when the road is revealed by turns you could not have foreseen. Keep them, break them, make them again: each promise becomes part of the path; each choice creates the road that will take you to the place where at last you will kneel to offer the gift most needed-- the gift that only you can give-- before turning to go home by another way. // Jan Richardson
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