Thursday, November 27, 2008

A Graceful Tree Spirit


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Monday, November 17, 2008

Coming Home To My Heart


It's hard for me to believe that it's been a month since I posted. There's been so much happening for me...preparation to move, expand, grow. Only a few weeks since I went away on retreat, and it feels like another lifetime.

Today brings a clarity and full embrace of who I am, and the path before me. In this life that I've chosen I'm a carrier of truth, a reader of patterns, an explorer of boundaries, a facilitator of healing, a proponent of light and love. In integrating this knowledge, I accept the responsibility and sacrifice (to make sacred) to allow spirit to move through me daily, unimpeded by fear, getting out of my own way when necessary without any fuss.

Is it possible? Of course. I've done it naturally for the past 2 weeks. Is it always that easy? Of course not. But now, I will cultivate patience, and allow my wide-open and compassionate heart to lead me through each day, each moment.

I feel profoundly grateful to be in this space, and to be able to love so well. I think I relearned about this at my retreat. Not just because I fell in love with someone else, but because I fell in love with myself first.

I now realize that there is no difference when you live fully within your heart. The heart center is the space where duality merges, where the lines between you and 'the other' melt away for a time. True merging happens when two whole selves come together for a time, embodying and creating the divine, unified aspect, and when separating again, leave the other stronger and more powerful from the experience. A wholeness carried from the very fabric of our inner being to completion in the outer world.

As my teacher Joe Klemas has told me many times, "Love is a decision." I understand that now.

So this day, I choose to love and serve to the best of my ability. I sit in profound gratitude for my life, and for the chance to create beauty and joy within this day, and within our world.

Many Blessings and Much Love,
Alyce