Dear friends,
Yesterday a lady ran a red light and collided with my car as I was inching forward to make a left turn. I was not hurt but my vehicle had to be towed to a body shop. The other driver was taken by stretcher to the hospital for observation. She was quite frail and elderly. At the same time a dear friend is in hospice preparing to leave this realm of life. As hard as it may be to accept, each experience is just life happening. Things come and go. Is there some deeper meaning for us as we live in the midst of it? For me, everything comes back to “Life is for us and never against us.” When someone close to us makes that transition, it is a beautiful example of that simple truth. There is no loss, there is a new beginning for them. The loss is our wanting to keep everything the same. We cannot do it and be in harmony with Spirit, which is always on the move. To try is to induce pain.
No one expressed it more eloquently than Emerson, when his young son died. He wrote how he had expected to be more devastated, that he might never recover. But no, he said a calm peace came over him and sustained him. Of course he grieved but it was in the context of a larger perception of what life is. Our sense of who we are in this universe and what may be behind it, colors our every reaction or response to the changing effects of being human.
Allowing for the natural flow of life in and out of form is not cold or uncaring. It is simply the sweet sigh of awe and wonder at how effortlessly Spirit moves. I suppose the meaning is to be fully present for all of it, knowing we are forever blessed, no matter how it looks.
Stay tuned in,
