I hope you are enjoying this beautiful solstice day. Even though today is the shortest day of the year, we know that tomorrow the days will begin to slowly become longer, bringing more light to us each day.
This solstice is special, in that it truly does mark the end of an era. The Mayans weren’t foretelling the end of the world, they were merely chronicling the normal passages of time. This particular time passage is about releasing fear, doubt, hate, and intolerance. We need to do this in order to be in alignment with the new energy of love and hope. Starting tomorrow, we are truly entering a time of illumination.
As I’ve probably said before, illumination is not just love and light. It is truth. Your truth and mine. More importantly, it is about acceptance of that truth. We are entering into a time of acceptance. Of accepting ourselves as we are, with all of our flaws. It’s a time of accepting others, even if we don’t agree with their politics or their lifestyle choices or with the way they plant their garden or raise their children!
This does not mean that we just shrug our shoulders when we see people in pain, folks hurting and abusing one another, and politicians messing up our lives. We certainly get to speak up and voice our own particular truth. Acceptance doesn’t mean giving up on humanity and letting the chaos created by others rule our lives.
What acceptance means is accepting who you are and accepting others as they are. But, you still get to choose who you hang out with, who you let into your “circle of trust,” who you trust to accept you as you are without trying to change you.
So, what does that have to do with hope? Many of you might be saying, “Look around at what’s happening in our country, in the world. What is there to be hopeful about?”
Here’s the deal: The beginning of this new era in human history can’t help but be hopeful because, if you’ve read Gregg Braden’s book, Fractal Time, you’d understand that we are at the beginning of a swing toward light. We’ve been fogging around in the darkness for far too long, and now we are on the trajectory toward light. Each year we see this happening in our year, as our trip around the sun takes us from long days of summer to long nights of winter. This also happens on a longer-period-of-time scale, written about by folks much smarter than I am, who study solar systems and universal movement.
Tomorrow we are, literally, at the day after the longest day, not just in our earthly year, but in our transit within the universe. We are, tomorrow, stepping into the first day of moving toward light and love, understanding and cooperation. We, as a planet, are moving toward clearer truth and deeper understanding.
Is everybody going to “get it” right away, or at all? No, this is a long journey, and each person gets to react to the new energy of light and love as they see fit. Some will push back harder and reject more strongly, the energy of love and acceptance, and that is perfectly fine. Some of you will read this and go “huh?” And that’s OK, too.
I just wanted to let you know that there is hope for humanity and our planet. Despite all of the crap you see on TV and hear from those around you, we really do get to experience positive change. And it starts now. With you. One person, one truth, one acceptance at a time.
Yay!
In joy & love,
Barbara
I apologize for the weird words at the beginning of the Blessings Blogpost, as well as the disjointedness of the paragraphs and sentences. I have now learned that I should not write in Word, then copy and paste to the blog! I hope you read it and enjoy it anyway!
Barbara
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Today I am writing to talk about blessings. Every one of us
has them. We may even recognize them! But when we get caught up in our
day-to-day lives, we forget to notice them. We might not even realize they are
blessings.
What do I mean? Well, are you in a comfortable place right
now? If it’s hot outside, are you in a cool spot? If it is cold outside, are
you someplace nice and toasty warm?
Are you hungry? Do you have enough to eat? Do you have the
funds or resources to feed yourself and your family? Do you have family? Friends? People in your
life you can count on?
Do you enjoy your job? Do you have a job, even if it isn’t
very fulfilling? Do you count it as a blessing because it keeps you in food and
shelter, or do you dismiss it because you don’t like it very
much? It can be both, you know. Do you know why?
Blessings are in the eye of the receiver. What one person
considers a blessing, another might consider a burden. Like children. Some
people view their children as the best, most precious and wonderful event that
has ever happened to them. They cherish each day with their little loved ones—even
the ones who are at the snarky stage! Yet others look at their children as this
heavy, bothersome burden that they wish someone would take off of their
shoulders. Blessings are definitely based on your own perception.
Does that mean that you can’t get frustrated with your
kids/spouse/pet now and then? Of course not. You are human! People will frustrate
you, even the cute ones. But if, overall, they feel more like a blessing than a
curse, then that tells you that they are, indeed, a blessing.
But what about the things that happen in our lives that are
not so fun? The unexpected disease, job loss, break-up? What about those? Of
course those are not considered blessings unless…
Unless they are! If these unfortunate happenings are a way
to get you to make a necessary change, if down the road you can look back and
say, “That was the best thing that ever happened to me, even though I didn’t
think so at the time” then, yes, it is a blessing.
I’m not saying you have to look at everything as though it’s
a blessing. Some things are truly awful, and there is no discernable blessing there. And that’s
OK. I just want you to be aware that you are more blessed than you may think
and more loved than you know.
The Universe, Divine, God—whatever word you are comfortable
with—truly loves you and wants you to be riding on top of an avalanche of
blessings! But you have to open your eyes to see and acknowledge them. You have
to realize you are blessed, or you may feel like that avalanche is just
shooting you down the mountain! (OK, enough of this snowy metaphor. I’m getting
cold!)
See your blessings. Feel the love of Divine within those
blessings. Be the blessing for others. And know that Divine love and blessings
are yours. Always.
In joy & love,
Barbara