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In that moment she remembered a dream from the night before last. She lay on a stone and fear engulfed her. Pain shot through her body and her heart. Fleeting images of robed beings and trees and Spirits flashed before her eyes. A chill washed over her. Suddenly, there she stood, alone in an old wooden house with the doors and windows open. A wind blew fiercely in the front door. She stood idle with her back to the door and then in rushed a wall of flames that blew from front to back, leaving through the back door. Everything in the path of the flames was destroyed. She felt the flames engulf her. She was still and watched the flames cover her arms and then shoot off her finger tips, leaving her feeling refreshed.
As she mused over the visions from her dream she became aware of a strange and unfamiliar presence. It felt like it was inside her. Still charged with the excitement and gratitude she was experiencing moments before, she sat and allowed this presence a space within her; even though that felt a bit scary.
The presence spoke: “I come in all times and places. Question not why, or how, I am present, but ponder, how could it be any other way, for what could exist in my absence? The miracle of life unfolds in each place where I am. Minds have come to see it only in the joyful and happy places, for they tell the heart that to feel intensity is not a miracle. Indeed, the greatest of miracles is to stand and face both joy and anguish with honesty and vulnerability as it expands the experience of the Spirit. I came for all experience. Imbalance results when the pathways to experience have detour signs (placed by the mind) diverting the traveller of life. Eventually though, all roads will be explored and harmony will be sustained. Rejoice in the expanse and diversity of experience. This is truly a place of awe: to be witness to possibility. As you, I have known abandonment, betrayal, rejection and more. In this body the pain of each reverberates from head to toe, and with each new pass through the heart, the weight grows when the mind blocks the pathway. The heart beats on; you remain unaware of the weight it carries, yet day in and day out it is there. Every choice is made on the back of this weight. How can life experience not reflect the burdens? Until one day, I say through you ‘Let me try something new, let me surrender the burdens of the past and experience what may change.’ Behold, a light shines out from my center point and my being becomes free and available to new adventures. All opens before me. A miracle indeed!
She sat, stunned at what had just happened to her, in her; she didn’t even know what that was! There was so much information flooding her now, she felt dizzy. All her senses were heightened and she felt alive and ready for whatever may come next.
Susan Kern