OUT OF THE BRAMBLES

 

I feel like I am slowly emerging from a dark tunnel. Readers may remember I wrote a blog, a year or so ago, about following our path. We either walk smoothly along our path, following the light or we are off the path, sometimes in brambles and treading over rocks, sometimes it feels like we are being pulled along by a leash. In either way we get there; whether we call it Unity, Love, God etc. The individual way we describe and label these events and goals matters little. We are growing. We can't but evolve.

We learn the easy way or the hard way. Either way, we learn. I have been off the trail lately and going through the brambles. I don't want to pull anymore thorns from my feet or spit out anymore grit.

Why do we do that. It seems so simple; be loving in all situations. All situations; no exceptions. Honor everyone. Honor all relationships.

Why can't I {we} do this? Why do we find it difficult? It seems most difficult in the most familiar relationships. Why?

We have all been crippled in one way or another. We were born and then we learned from imperfect people, just like us, how to relate. We have sore places. We have hidden hurt places. We have scars. We have hidden fears. We do our best to survive and cover over these hurts, etc. with our defensive masks. We get along just fine until a new person or situation presents a challenge. Somehow, they reach through our mask and press a button. We react in some old way-suddenly the wound is fresh- the button pusher gets to experience our rage, tears, contempt, fear, tantrum, or whatever is elicited.

Sometimes we find ourselves in familiar relationships, pushing each others buttons. We pick people who will help us grow. Rather than see this as a misfortune, we can see it as an opportunity to grow.

It is discouraging. We all what to live in peace. We don't want discord. But we do want to grow.

The light is intensifying on the Earth. It is pulling us up. In the process we need to give up all these blocks, both big and little, we have to intimacy and loving relationships. The need to grow is getting stronger and stronger, we will either stay on our path and follow the Light or we will feel like something is pulling us through the brambles.

As I sit here it seems like it would be easy, to surrender to love, at any moment. Yet I know, my internal warts, may cause me to bristle, if a certain person says something to me in the wrong way. Ick...isn't that awful? How do we heal these places that we have hidden inside us? The bad news is, that crap will keep happening until we do. The good news is, that the crap will keep happening until we do. Yes, be grateful for the crap because it gives us intent to overcome the problem and points in the direction we must look.

Let us do ourselves a favor. Let us be honest about how we don't love ourselves. Let us resolve to love ourselves, right now, flaws and all! Let us take a few moments everyday, and imagine ourselves basking in the Love of The Universe. Let the love fill every corpuscle of our mind and body.

Lets make it easier on ourselves, when we accidentally [or purposely] press another's buttons, let's forgive ourselves immediately. Let us forgive those who push our buttons immediately. We can avoid mutual button pushing. In our darkest moments we can remember the Light. In our darkest moments we can remember we are Love.

Ahhhhh........my feet are feeling for the path. Oh.......... I want to surrender to Love.

Love and Peace, Gregg