Leave the shallow stream behind
and flow into the river deep and wide.
Don’t be an ox pulling the wheel of the plow,
turn with the stars that wheel above you.”
Rumi
Ten years ago I began writing about my childhood and two years ago I self
published a memoir that spanned my lifetime thus far. Sixty-four years of joys, sorrows, abandonment, betrayal, love, loyalty, faith, resentment, pettiness, courage….all the words that make up a life. As I kept writing I began to understand that I wasn’t just writing my story, I was writing about the human story. The details of the experiences belonged to me, but the emotions and challenges they create are universal. Nothing else truly bonds the human race as much as our common story. We have lived it through the ages.
Now it is time for the collective new story, one without guilt, shame or regret, to enter our consciousness and claim its rightful place in this world. We are being asked by a more evolved consciousness, our Source, to find the truth in our hearts where it lives hidden by layers of ego projected fear. Ego has no defense against the power of true belief in the Love of All. The new story isn’t about pride, being right, selfishness, or control. If we can each find a way to allow our hearts to guide us we will feel our humble, loving selves and that energy will reach out to others to connect us in the place we call Spirit.
I do not claim to know how anyone else should do this, I can only look to my own life and the experiences I choose to move through during my time on earth. I lived many years “asleep,” but kept struggling to keep my head above water despite the outer layers of ego that can tend to keep one in denial and hide a deeper truth. I realized that for me there was nothing more important than “waking up” and becoming more conscious. But in order to do that I had to remain vigilant and keep peeling away the veneer. What I saw at times wasn’t pretty and yet I have come to believe that underneath the overlay of ego there is, in all of us, a tremendous light of self love that shines out beyond our humanness and assures us we are One. In the unity of the Light we can move, as individuals, to create a new story for humanity.
“If you desire the self, get out of the self.
Leave the shallow stream behind
and flow into the river deep and wide.
Don’t be an ox pulling the wheel of the plow,
turn with the stars that wheel above you.”
Rumi
Hi everyone! I want to share my new writing with you, so I have started this blog to do just that. I hope you enjoy what I post here and please feel free to comment and give feedback.
Blessings,
- Lisa