Thursday, May 30, 2013

Freeing Shadows

               What is the difference between knowing and feeling? It’s like the space between water and ice, the sea and sea bed, or the wick, flame and wax. 
               I walked the hilly mountain path. Into the wind. I sang and chanted the Knowing of Love, being Love and giving Love. In the wind I heard a whisper and thought it only the sound of my feet slipping on the rocks. But I knew the voice. I was walking into the wind. It began as a whisper. Grew quietly into a cry. “I am unloved. I am not loveable. I will never be good enough for anyone or anything.” I knew the voice and the 237 seasons that had shaped the words and then silenced them. Even the Knowing had, in some ways, silenced the voice but always knew it was there.
               I walked the hilly mountain path. Into the wind. I walked with Knowing. And as I walked I listened as the voice became stronger lengthening my stride up the hills. As I walked with Knowing I sat the voice free to cry, to yell, to fly. I walked the hilly mountain path. Into the wind. I walked with Knowing. The voice, the silent fear flew ahead, soared above and hung like a bird in the sky, so effortless, suspended in time. I found the Knowing and my heart chuckling softly as we walked into the wind. Even shadows deserve to be free.

               What is the difference between Knowing and feeling? It’s like the space between water and ice, the se and sea bed, or the wick, flame and wax. The space where no voice is silenced. The space where you walk into the wind with Knowing, watch feeling soar and fly no longer afraid. The space where feeling and Knowing become trust. 

2 comments:

  1. Each time I come here to sit, read, and ponder I am always filled.
    One time I am thirsty and my thirst is filled
    The next time I am hungry and my hunger is filled.
    Always, always my spirit is filled...as I know the Voice belongs
    to the Beloved. Is the Divine, speaking to you and through you.
    Really Dear Spirit, you should be publishing these whispers for
    all the world to inhale....R E A L L Y!!!

    Mitakuye Oyasin,
    Akasa

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    1. Akasa
      You are most kind and I am graced by your presence and comment. Thank you for sitting with my little whispers. You have graced my heart.

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