11 March 2009
Spring 2009
Posted by sundust oracle under: Current News; Meditation & Prayers .
Hello Every Beautiful One,
Tend to your gifts and they will tend to you. Steward them and they will steward you. Show hospitality and gratitude for the mystery that supports you and it will show gratitude and hospitality and support to you. There is a Tibetan saying that what you give away chases you, wants you, finds you. It’s wonderful who you are. Love it life it be it. I have been waiting for this day when get rich quick schemes are replaced with get happy and fulfilled schemes or authentic dream schemes. In the dream lie the joy, the abundance and nourishment of the soul. If you dream, if you nourish, if you dance or bake, paint or take care of children, if you nurture elders write stories, pray, walk in nature, love birds, if you garden or hunt, if you wild craft, counsel or cook. If you live these gifts fully you will be tended to. We are all builder, we are all tenders, and if we flower in consistency loving what we love, nourishing our dream, facing all things with pause, then reflection, then action, one step at a time. Then we will always have enough.
The Hopi prophecy says grow your own food or at least one food item. Lao Tzu says rejoice in what you have, be content in the way things are. When you realize nothing is lacking the whole world belongs to you. If we have not been doing what we love, then it is time to start over, to clean house so what has meaning will emerge. What we value is the only thing others can value. What we love others will care about also, the others that really matter. To quote Dr. Seuss, say what you feel and be who you are, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Becoming ourselves is a great mystery or as Yates says a terrible beauty. We have to learn something new. How to value who we are and what we have to offer as much as others do. Teacher’s, healer’s visionaries, counselors, bakers, doctors, what is essential has come to the surface and the important question of who are we when there is no almighty buck to follow. Maybe we could return to our hearts. Live simply, simply extend our unique and beautiful medicine, our talents and interests to create a new currency based on fulfillment, tending to community with our talents and bringing and making beauty and soul as a part of everyday life.
We have a choice at this time, to enter a new current, a new way of seeing currency. Remembering our joy and implementing a step by step plan to do what we value each day, to do the hard work of helping others or to play into the lie that we are victims. We are not unless we allow our imagination to be taken by the externals instead of by the drive of our dream and goals. There is an infinite supply of miracles and really it takes very little effort to be one.
What makes you happy? If you don’t remember go on a walking meditation for 15 minutes. Hold in your heart that question and ask to be shown by the great mystery what you enjoy. Nature will show you as you notice, notice the pulse of your heart, notice what you see and hear, and bird’s o wildlife spirit speaks through nature.
Spend time with friends who regenerate you. Talk to one another about how, as Angeles Arrien says, to turn things in a more positive and beneficial direction.
Remember what you enjoy doing in quiet times when you were a child. There is a calling there is a gift there.
Pray, meditate, spend time, reflect, call on assistance to strengthen you, remember the ones who came before. They made it through to bring you into the world, rely on them. What are their gifts that are beautiful…Strength? Courage? What’s good, what’s love, what works? Stay with that and thrive.
We all have a gift that will serve our community, technological, creative, or healing. To teach, nurture, serve, or protect. They are all essential gifts. And no community can go forward unless we all develop and offer our inspired gifts. May we support one another in being real because if there is enough and you are enough, then what are you going to do? It is sure to be the right direction. As the Buddhist quote says ‘if you are headed in the right direction all you need to do is keep on walking.’ There are things that people will always need. People will always need to be fed. Grow food, prepare food, learn about foods that nourish. Learn about foods that heal. People will always need healing and comfort. Develop your innate healing gifts within yourself. That is about listening, counseling, prayers, needles, herbals, surgeries, medical intuitive work, and ceremony. Develop these healing gifts, they will always be needed. Tend to your soul, people will always search for meaning. Deepen your capacity to reflect and access your own wisdom. Wisdom will always be needed. People will always need shelter, protection, nature, and spirit. Human beings will always need beauty, paintings, gardens, wild or otherwise, ways to create and to bring spirit into form. Angeles Arrien says that beauty is a portal to the mystery. What else is needed in the world? What else does the earth need? Human beings will always need this connection. Preserve and protect these resources, this beauty, this aliveness.
In Beauty, With Gratitude, Char Sundust
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