Together we Awake

We need others. One drop is just a drop; combined it becomes a trickle. A trickle of water is powerful. Only a river of water carved the Grand Canyon. Imagine if all drops combined – it would change our world.

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When we are born into this world we attach not only to our own physical body, but also attach in relationship to others, especially those to whom at first we are dependent upon, our mother and father. Like a web these attachments grow to siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and beyond. We research our genealogies and feel connection to those who have lived in the past, but share our lineage. We make decisions based on those who will come after us in the future. We are fixed in a point of time with threads linking us. If we take this tapestry backwards, we see that we are all linked at some past point when man first originated. We all share in this singular DNA.

We are born into dependence on a mother and father. We pass through the veil and forget our dependence on the Eternal Father and Mother. It is how we put on the physical and how we attach that makes the difference, both in our experience on earth and our soul’s growth in the eternal now. For our own health we must attach, and I pray all babies born could trust in that dependence, and grow in nurturance, protection, and love. Non-attachments results in failure to thrive and in all kinds of emotional, mental, and physical ailments.

We must attach and be grateful for these attachments. As we mature, we have the opportunity to change our hearts and attachments to be more focused on the Eternal until the Eternal bond becomes our cornerstone. This does not mean that if you are a mother or a father entrusted with souls in your care, that you turn your back on caring, nurturing, and instructing these souls. They are one’s primary responsibility. As a child, one does not turn one’s back on one’s father and mother, but loves and respects them for the life and upbringing received. Honor them, but always with a focus first on God.

Relationships are reflections of the Divine in our lives. It may be easier to see the light of the Divine in the soul of a passing person or in some stranger in need, but more difficult to see in the face of one we see and share a home with daily, with someone we’ve shared a lifetime with and know their faux pas as they know equally our own.

We live day by day, moment by moment, creating memories, but the moments being lived and created are more often than not gone in a flicker of an eye lid and rarely remembered at all, or if so, rarely remembered as they happened. To make our lives more than living each moment to create a memory, we must live each moment as if it was the only moment and one that we may, or most likely, will never remember again. Once past, a moment is gone forever, but only so that we may live again in another, and choose love again. This is a wonderful blessing to be able always to choose again until we breathe our last breath in this body.

We are so busy doing. We often do until we die. We say we are doing for our relationships, but these relationships are secondary to doing. Mothers and fathers work at jobs that require a large percentage of their time and take priority in their lives in order to provide for their children. We often feel trapped. We need to work in order to earn in order to provide, because that is what our lives have turned into. We become our work. We work to buy things. These things then require time to care for, maintain, and repair. We are in a constant flux of working for and caring for things. Our children, a main reason for our working, are left in the care of others. They see little of us. We squeeze in quality time. This is an insane way to live. Karl Marx writes about the alienation we feel because of this disconnect between ourselves and what he refers to as the natural world. It could also be said that the disconnect is between ourselves and the Eternal.

We work and play and run around on our insane life treadmills, believing all the while we are living. Actually, we are merely existing until our bodies give out. The only way to find meaning in life is through growing and experiencing our relationship with the Eternal One. Relationships with others are one way of creating this relationship with God. Relationships then must be the priority, being with others versus doing.

Service to others is doing, but in a way that builds relationship with the Eternal, because it is self-less and humble and the doing stems from Love and nothing else, unless one is serving for a different intent, i.e. in service of the ego. True service to others serves Creation in the purity of Love. This is different than doing for doing’s sake.