“This dream is bigger than any dream we’ve had about how to make a day,
and it’s coming on the wings of a virus.” Stephen Jenkinson
There are some things I am beginning to know with riveting clarity as this virus works its way over the land. “Beginning to know” are the operative words.
I am beginning to know more about the passing of things. Death. The way of letting go of agendas and becoming a disciple of the present moment.
I am beginning to know more about devotion, and how it asks of you the very thing you’d rather not bother with, let alone embrace.
I am beginning to know the difference between feeling safe, and feeling lucid, by which I mean easy to understand, bright, luminous. I am choosing the later as the former is no longer (nor was it ever) really available.
I am beginning to know how to wait until I am invited to do or to say the next best thing, while listening with a deeper heart.
I am resonating with wisdom of other times, that seems to pass through men and women who had eyes to see and ears to hear. This beautiful piece found its way to me today, by the Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and proclaimed clairvoyant Rudolph Steiner:
A Verse for Our Time
We must eradicate from the soul
All fear and terror of what comes towards man out of the future.
We must acquire serenity
In all feelings and sensations about the future.
We must look forward with absolute equanimity
To everything that may come.
And we must think only that whatever comes
Is given to us by a world-directive full of wisdom.
It is part of what we must learn in this age,
namely, to live out of pure trust,
Without any security in existence.
Trust in the ever-present help
Of the spiritual world.
Truly, nothing else will do
If our courage is not to fail us.
And let us seek the awakening from within ourselves
Every morning and every evening.
It’s uncanny to hear the wisdom that is still needed today, to “to live out of pure trust, without any security in existence,” and yet to “trust in the ever-present help of the spiritual world.”
I am beginning to know how essential that is at this time.
My prayers
One of my deep prayers is that people (myself included) are willing to question what is called “normal” and do not develop amnesia about what life was like before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Most of us were moving at a pace that was truly unsustainable before. There has been a huge drop in global pollution since humans have taken a break from business as usual. So much needed to change in the way we parent, interact with one another, consume goods, and care for our health or that of the planet.
I pray that on the wings of this virus we begin to know some things.
I pray that empathy and compassion become primary expressions of what it means to be human.
I pray that on the wings of this virus, we tune into a world directive that can lift us up in the face of whatever comes next, and next…..
I pray that enough people learn to dream a bigger dream that is backed by sufficient vision, devotion and courage.
I am beginning to know that my small prayers make a difference.
