August 20, 2010 OF TIME, TWEETS AND SOULS FLYING FREE
With all the Facebook, Tweets and Twits stuff going on, I sometimes feel like it's all too much. Just give me a real live human being with whom to converse while sitting in the shade of the redwood tree in my own front yard. No computers, no cell phones, nothing that needs rebooting or recharging! (Except me!)
Especially this week, I feel deep appreciation for the simple things in life....and for life itself.
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Earlier this week, I spent nearly 72 hours with a dear woman named Jean, a former client. I had the honor of playing the role of "spiritual midwife" as she transitioned from her body. She'd been valiantly dealing with cancer for several years, and at age 74, it was now time to let go, and move on.
After many long hours, during which her body and soul prepared themselves for this transition, I was gifted to be at her side at the moment of release. I was able to witness the look of indescribable joy and awe that shone through her barely opened eyelids in the instant before she left her body.
She'd been unconscious for the better part of three days, so for her to return to awareness just enough to reveal that beauty to me - and to her daughter, Sherrie, who was on her other side - was an unspeakably precious gift.
I don't know precisely what Jean experienced in that moment, but I do know she wanted us to know it was beautiful beyond imagining. A single tear rolled down her parched cheek, and then she was gone.
Sherrie and I sat wide-eyed, feeling an indescribable awe and Lightness of Being, as we both cried and laughed and hugged across her mom's now-uninhabited body. Then, I turned and softly played "Amazing Grace" on my crystal singing bowls, as Jean's soul flew free.
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So, although time marches on at an ever-increasing rate here on this earthly plane, I've been freshly reminded that what truly matters knows not the bounds of time, nor the confines of the body. Who we truly are could never be expressed in a tweet, a twit, a blog, or a book of any kind - Face or otherwise!
As the birds flutter amongst the branches above me, singing their songs with joyful abandon, I find myself joyfully reflecting that each of us has a unique song to sing... and wings with which to fly.
I am blessed with that knowing. I wish for you the same blessing.
Namaste.
Relax Into Healing...
December 31, 2008 YIELDING TO YES
This holiday season, I have been given a most profound gift. In these past few weeks, I've had the unspeakable privilege of acting as a spiritual midwife for a beloved friend, Lisa, as she made her transition from this plane. Words cannot begin to describe the beauty, the Grace, the joy and the sorrow of these past weeks. So I turn to Lisa's own words to most elegantly convey the essence of her beautiful Being.
Lisa was, among other things, an accomplished poet. The following poem is read by Lisa herself on a compilation CD she'd recorded a few years ago. I played it as I was preparing dinner tonight.This particular poem stopped me in my tracks. I had to listen again. And again. Then I offered a prayer of thanks, and came into my office to share these incredible words with you. May they touch your soul as deeply as they did mine.
(NOTE: Having only a verbal version, the line breaks, punctuation, etc., are mine. I will amend, if I'm able to, at a later date...)
When I Lie Down and When I Rise
Hold me tight, like a chrysalis.
Something with wings is preparing to wake inside.
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When I close my eyes, I can feel everything changing,
Yielding to yes,
Uncovering an old intimacy with Light.
More than rose leaves ready to be green
And buds holding what we forgot in the cold,
It's a ripening of words my ancestors gave me.
And any minute now, I'm going to rise,
Remembering I'm part of a whole -
One cell among billions that people God's heart.
By Lisa Rosen,
(Copyright 2008)
In loving memory of a very bright Light, who has yielded, with such Grace, to "yes".
I love you, Lisa...and "thank you so much."
And the deepest blessings to you, dear reader, as you make your sacred transition into this new year.
Namaste.
