In this morning's meditation, I remembered a dream I had very early this morning. In the dream is a beautiful dark haired young woman. She has broken up with her now former boyfriend because someone new has come into her life. The new suitor has given her a beautiful bracelet. The thin cuff of the bracelet is sliver, and curves around a singular large, dark blue stone. The stone is oval shaped and is the color of a deep cloudless twilight. The piece is simple, balanced, and stunning. However, the former boyfriend decides he wants the bracelet. He seems convinced that he deserves it and he has another he can give her. His piece is far inferior, and really could not even be considered a piece of jewelry - more of a trinket or a souvenir. In the dream I speak up: "That bracelet was never yours. You have no claim to it nor can you offer any exchange for it." I cannot remember if the young woman says anything, but I have a sense she is concerned, but seems to be having some difficulty taking a stand with the former boyfriend. I feel committed to making sure he does not end up with this beautiful piece that in my mind, he neither deserves nor has any claim to.
Humanity is in a time of deep transition. The temptation to wish for being able to return to the way things were is strong, but that is illusionary thinking. I believe we are being called into a new time. Despite the disease that is moving through the world, we are seeing that the earth is healing. Let us not be deceived by old thinking that views the earth and all of life as only a resource to be plundered and hoarded. I came across an interesting phrase today: "hie homeward". Hie is an archaic word that means quickly. This phrase speaks to me not of trying to rush back into our former lives, but rather returning home to our essence with haste. For those of us who are sheltering in place, we are being called to prayer, to envisioning, to holding hope. We each take on this task in our own way, but however we are called, we are being summoned to help roll the stone of fear and old thinking away.
The Easter season is close and is eternal. Let us begin our journey to move out of the tomb of deadening fear as we hear those ancient words, "Be not afraid." Let us go forward into this new time.
May your beauty shine today.
Look, there was a great earthquake, for an angel from the Lord came down from heaven. Coming to the stone, he rolled it away and sat on it. Now his face was like lightening and his clothes white as snow.
Matthew 28:2-3
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