These days between postings produced numerous reflections on the many ways we can and do celebrate life.
Our Aunt Donna, who struggled long and hard to breathe and to enjoy the new great-grandbabies she loved so much, passed into that next great adventure last week. She is a dear person, and we are missing her. We know she is celebrating!
On the same day as her funeral, my youngest granddaughter celebrated her 5th - and very important - birthday. Such a vibrant being, and so excited to actually be 5! "I will be different," she proudly announced.
Reflecting on childhood, birthing and mourning has revealed a number of things, but primarily the unfinished business of mourning our father who passed when I was 13. I have a great relationship with him now, though that does not mean that the child in me is at peace yet with all the loss. Our friend, Nancy, also reflecting, has realized that we cannot go forward carrying the wounded child. Oh, certainly, we continue in life while carrying a lot. But to forge ahead with clarity we need to stop and gather the inner child to us, giving it permission to inform us of the emotional memories it has carried for us.
We can use our dream life to help us in this. System once said to me that we have a choice in the manner we approach our dreams: we can be a child with our dreams, simply dreaming in symbols and insulating ourselves from greater understanding, or we can be adults with our dream life, asking for assistance and dreaming more vividly and conceretly to further inform and inspire us.
Loving ourselves, let's give our wise Systems permission to inform us and guide us to true release of the pain we all accumulate along the way. Let us honor ourselves and the Creator through which we create this life, wringing as much of our Wisdom from Consciousness as we possibly can. Let us choose life deliberately today and each day. We are going to live it anyway, right? Waking to embrace the Wisdom in each day we honor self and each other one who has walked before us. Amen
Until next time, Phyllis
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