February 3, 2024

          Purification, renewal, resurgence, resurrection.  What do these words mean to you?  I whisper them gently so you might consider applying each one to your heart, your spirit, your soul.  Each will bring you into a sacred space which only courage will allow.  To strip yourself bare, not physically, but spiritually, emotionally, opening your heart, in such a way, one can no longer deny truth.  For, in purification comes renewal, and from renewal, resurgence emerges, revealing complete resurrection of the authentic you.  This path, this practice, cannot be demanded of oneself.  It comes in response to a call from deep within, asking you to surrender by embracing the call, and all it asks of you.

 And The Holy Spirit says:

           There are certain practices which require discipline from a determined athlete in order to be stronger, faster, more agile to experience a level of competence in their chosen field.  And through practice comes confidence in what they are doing.  It is the same for one seeking spiritual growth.  Determination to reach a sacred place of peace, living from the spirit within, requires a practice and discipline.  But as with the athlete, when the seeker responds to the call from within, in quiet determination, they rise to meet the path, and the practice soon becomes as natural as breathing, and there comes confidence in what they are doing.  For, they are living from within, where lays the heart, and spirit, and soul.  And when they rise, conjoined as one, there comes life eternal.  No one can take away this gift, this experience.  It tarries not in regret, but is vibrant, and lives within every breath one takes, and shall remain, without haste, for there is no reason to run, when you are standing, bathed in the light of the rising sun.