There’s so much calling us. Socially we’ve been “on-the-move” for forty years, technology leaping faster than our ability to educate the heart while keen observations indicate our life-long struggles are being played out in very dangerous ways on world-viewed stages both home and abroad.
It speaks to our internal conflicts and much to the lack of support, family love and unconditional empathy needed for our felt sense of ourselves and for each other can be reciprocated.
It speaks to the ways we have, the capacity for and ability of ways to share our experiences with each other. Ways to communicate.
If we lose something we believed in without the necessary support to hold the space we need to properly process the experience —we fragment. That is to say the pain is too great. And if we experience too many losses too close without the resources to offset the above mentioned missing initial support to fall back on, it can feel nearly impossible that anything relatively “normal” will come back into our life experience.
But that said, we are an adaptive and resilient people and that’s where true Faith and Hope come to aid us.
A false faith is belief in control of an external world, and perhaps more so, over that of another human being. The Faith and Hope we speak of here is of another time and space.
In this time and space, it is inner release that allows room for the mystical and magical.
Faith in Grace, the capacity and ability of self acceptance unbound by mortal concept. And Hope —the inspiration we feel, a lifting of the heart, thanks be Grace. For Grace is direct lineage between seen and unseen.
Faith and Hope, like Peace, must be cultivated. How we get there is our by our choice. But, as in any cultivation it begins in stillness.
Stillness is not found in rushing, nor in distraction —it is grown and nurtured in silence, in nature, in prayer, in deep inflection.
A slowed internal dialogue recognizes the “other” as a part of itself and the ways we communicate seem then expand. Now, our felt sense of each other can be reciprocated through a shared experience. Thus, our social interaction can be diverted from aggression and into compassion. We feel each other.
How beautiful the space we would actualize a brand new world. How beautiful evolved of pain from a loss once unsupported could now be acknowledged, forgiven, and healed.
*Research suggests even as little as five minutes of meditation daily in the morning and five minutes before sleep can offer sometimes mind-blowing insight that may significantly change the trajectory of our day, and cultivated over time —our lives.
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