A Visit from a Chickadee...

I stepped out onto my balcony to look at something when I heard a noise.  At first I couldn't tell where it was coming from.  It sounded like a bird had banged into a window.   I looked around and saw inside my apartment a bird on the inside of the window trying to get out.  I went inside and caught the bird and as I went toward the open balcony door it slipped out my fingers and flew out into the forest.  My dog was going crazy....
It was a little beauty of a bird and it left before I could photograph it.  As a totem the chickadee talks about communication and how to use our voice.  It teaches us about flexibility and curiosity.  I think my little visitor must have been a very curious little one.  Chickadee also is considered the bird of truth and one of my favorite places on the internet, Linsdomain, states it this way:   

"Truth can be shared in a way that adds joy to everyone’s lives." I wonder.  Can that be Chickadee's message to me, or to you? http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/chickadee.htm

Eternity... is it on Your list of needs?

"Something deep in the human make-up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--at least a momentary release from the relentless pace of time. We don't usually place eternity in our list of needs, but the soul is only half satisfied with the things of this world.”  From Thomas Moore THE SOUL OF SEX.

This longing for eternity as he calls it is why there is religion in the world.  This longing is essentially our search for God.  We aren’t left here in the physical without something that calls to us urging us to find out who we are and where our eternal home is.   But this longing is also the why people turn to addictive behavior whether it be alcohol, sex, drugs or even fundamentalism.  Making the best use of this longing requires choice and intent.   It means making a decision to want to know the truth.  The truth that will set you free.  Also there can be many truths depending on who you are and your level of understanding.  The soul longs for that from whence it came. 

The View is Never the Same...

Perhaps it was the presence of children of all backgrounds and levels of inner awareness or perhaps it was the presence outside of street people, junkies, recovering addicts, the mentally ill...  Perhaps it was simply the right time.   The consciousness expanded and these ‘others’ were seen for what they are... the children of God AND children of the earth.   It was a knowing that few individuals can be more than what they are.  Levels of consciousness must reach a point where the search for meaning and spiritual understanding have a draw that cannot be denied and where there is an attractive light at the end of some tunnel glimpsed or felt.   The choice of awareness and looking for truth is a strange mixture of longing, awareness and the grace of God.   The individual ego cannot do it alone but God does not force.
The window closed...  The children were once more fascinated, loud, earthbound.  Outside the street people lighted their cigarettes, the mentally ill listened for the voices they could no longer hear because they had been dulled by the most affordable chemical.
The view is never the same after a window of awareness opens and closes.  

Maybe the Search is Not Your Thing...

Maybe the search for spiritual information and truth is not your thing but you might consider at least trying to increase your life happiness, peace and joy.  You will be so much happier and it will leave an impression on the planet and on others, especially those close to you.  If a teacher or religion does not promote peace and love I would think twice about following that teacher or religion.   And even if you aren’t in an avid search for spiritual truths, maybe the one closest to you or a child close to you might be the searching one or is to become one.   Always keep in mind how what you do and believe affects those around you and the planet.  

"Children of the Angels"...

From the time I got up this morning the line from Walela’s song ‘Circle of Light’ has been going through my mind.   Walela is a trio of aboriginal American women.    The song has some wonderful lines in it but the one that keeps running through my mind says: “We are children of the angels”.  “We are children of the angels Keepers of the Fire, We are children of the angels reaching for the light.”  Not long after I got up I played the song and some of the other songs on the album.  But here it is early evening and the line is still going through my mind.   Perhaps some of the other lines carry the message that I needed to hear.   “We are not strangers....I know we came here to love each other...Each one thinks he has the answer, Each believes that he can see the way, the only way.  Truth lies waiting, was always waiting, Like a love, a peaceful dove, Right there inside your soul.”  “We ARE children of the angels reaching for the light...” 

It gets better than better....

There is a set of videos out called "It gets better" that has celebrities and people like you and me talking to gay and lesbian youth letting them know that life gets better beyond the bullying and the self doubt.  Sometimes it is still not easy but it does get better.   I would like to put my thumbs up on that project and add that it is the same with life in general and one's spiritual journey.  The truth about God and the part of life that we cannot see is awe inspiring and wondrous beyond anything we can imagine  but we will not know or feel it  unless we get out of fear, recognize the God within us, expect good things and look for the synchronicities that will bring them to us.  It is also difficult to ferret out the fear and to let go of the drama.  We get so used to it.  When the going gets tough, the tough look within.  It not only gets better, it gets better than better.