The blank page waits. So often I am faced with not knowing, waiting for an answer, something I can make a connection to. That word seems fitting for an April mull.
Phrases posted on Facebook April 2024
Have you ever met a person for the first time and felt immediately connected? No second guessing, just simply knowing there is a link. It is a random gift, but it seems to be meant beyond reason.
Say you’ve been working on something and have come to a shrieking stop. You can’t go on. There is a missing piece. Then you overhear a snippet on the radio, or someone mentions something that could be a link that can open the road block. What is really meant for us has a way of coming to us. And what is not meant persists in being illusive. It is a “no” message and therefore is also a message to be understood.
I know I am linked to all others as I breathe. It doesn’t matter who or where, the air we breathe is shared air. Knowing that I can exhale good will and hope as many times as I remember to do so (yes, it’s a drop in the ocean), those breaths keep me open to good will and the hope for more kindness for us all. I am helped when I exhale blessings. I want to believe that it matters.
There is that “something” everyone has though it may be ignored or deeply buried. That “something” is a gift, an eternal connection to the Source of everything whether we acknowledge it or not. In silence we are able to feel it and in that stillness we not only know but are known.
We have connections to our homes, habits, hobbies and habitats. Pulled away from any one of these would affect us deeply. We would be forced to change. Thinking beyond the moment I wonder what, if anything, would be good to examine vis a vie my connections. Is something ready for a change? Do I want to do it? Do I dare to do it?
There are things that are specific and natural connections that we each have and which (if nothing big interferes) lead us into our purpose in the world. They are like magnetic draws. We are made whole by giving ourselves to them.
So long. See you later alligator. Hasta entonces. Arrivederci. These ways we say goodbye all have the implication of a continuance, a next time, an ongoing connection. We cannot have vital lives without connecting to others in deep and meaningful ways. May we stay connected then to those who bring us meaning. Even after someone dies we can still keep them in our hearts.
When we truly long for something that is fundamental to us, our longing is our connection to it. Forgetting how and when, we can have the realization that what we long for is already so. That helps to bring it into reality.
We know that everything is connected to everything else. There’s no way to be outside of reality. When we live with that understanding we will know to be kind because everyone is simply another ourself. It’s the right way to be selfish.
Instead of feeling hopeless about not having connections we want, why not believe in the popular notion that we are only six degrees of separation from them? Nurturing a conviction to hopelessness will prove itself in hopelessness. Nurturing a connection to possibility (only six degrees of separation) keeps us open to receiving our good.
Paradoxically the more we enter into silence and allow it to take over, the more connected we are able to be in the world. It is as if that invisible encounter strengthens our awareness and brings us more fully into the every day.
