Aspects of Being
O.K. - Here's a question: how many of you have ever felt like a "square peg" in a round-hole-world? Don't be shy - raise your hand proudly. It means you think! (Also, if you choose to stand in line, remember that you're in very good company!) But...how many of us have repeatedly turned our face away from the world as we perceive it, because it seemed too abysmal a morass to do anything about. How many have felt left out because it appeared to be a clear choice not to participate in the fray. How many have been challenged to battle on different fronts and said, "No Thanks - that's not my job.".... It seems that we continually adopt, from generation to generation, this weird and warped notion of what it means to be a Hero. It seems we often place heroes on pedestals that in effect make their achievements unattainable in the context of a so-called ordinary life. But whose life is "ordinary"? Is yours? Ordinary is often deemed to be without incident, without challenges, common and everyday; in other words, boring and decidedly unexceptional. But is not The Everyday where we meet our fate head-on, in increments, as well as coveted leaps... Off the top of your head, name 5 people who have influenced you deeply and forever in your life. Now, off the top of your head, can you recognize those whom you have touched positively at some time? And do the "heroes" in your own life give you courage, or do they bestow shame when you feel you cannot reach that mark. Seems to me that our so-called heroes had all their own challenges to contend with, and that they must have relied on knowledge and wisdom that was already there to begin with, gleaning their own courage from it, as well as how they interpreted what they saw around them that "needed fixing". Quite simply put, they were and are a product of their time, as they were also a measure of their past, which is also our past! The tapestry would never finish unravelling were we to look closely. Pull but one thread....and you will find yourself in there. Don't think to wait,
to save your "good works" for a supposedly worthy moment in time. Truly
we can and do perform them every day!
~ Often we hunger for
Revelation, while we cannot abide the journey of a day.
How marvellous this journey,
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