In the Moment
A friend of mine offered a mindfulness challenge last week that involved nurturing our inner world before we engage the tending of other’s needs or wants… also to observe (without judgement) our tendencies and triggers, as well as the results from cultivating a stronger sense of presence within ourselves. Bonus points for discovering how this investment enhances and influences the quality of our engagement with others!!
I’ve been observing my week and this is what I have come away with:
I've been working many days and long hours at the Distribution Center (12-15 hrs/ day). It happens often throughout the year. We all are exhausted but thankful for our job. Working like this feels like it leaves little to no time for spirit, meditation, and the like, because it feels like all we have time for is simply surviving and tending to our responsibilities.
These stretches always make me think of others who are also in this trench: feeling like a spiritual life would be wonderful, in theory, but not practical in practice. My heart is with them and all of us during these times.
And I am reminded often (haha!... as the sun is now shining directly into me through the window at this very moment! *thank you)...I am reminded that there is ALWAYS a choice to engage Spirit. Whether it is while breathing, crying, surviving, or celebrating. There is always time, because it's a matter of choice.
But also, it's a choice to engage it as a practice so that we can build the muscle of Presence and Spirit into every moment, blessing whatever we are, wherever we are.
Perhaps that shift feels elusive or perhaps it feels easy... but it takes the same commitment from each of us to build it.
Having felt the sweetness of communion, my heart aches when I'm not actively building that relationship. When I'm deep in survival mode, I feel despair and aloneness.... and my heart is with all who are feeling that. I want to wrap my heart's arms around everyone and feel God's Love come in.
Today, I may have the day off... I'll know by 4pm. As I woke today, I felt the survival mode kick in, to be ready in case it's another long day of little sleep and getting through a tough haul with my guys at the warehouse (bless them all!). I felt tears and exhaustion come up. I felt separation and despair, because I've not been creating any time for Spirit to truly breathe within me.
After getting ready for work (just in case), I still had not gotten the call to come in. So, I sat with Jesus, and I asked to share love and presence with him. I asked him to show me about this white rose with gold edging that he brought to me the other day in a vision. We sat together for a little while, just now, and I could get a feel for some of what that is about; how to share it with the world in frequency and how to bring it into my bodies energetically.
Now, I feel tears of communion and gratitude for this time together, and I was able to wrap my heart's arms and this rose around everyone through my prayers and presence in this moment.
I took a moment to connect because I noticed that I had been given a window of time to pause…and I accepted that invitation. During that time, I was encouraged to keep inviting those moments of communion... in a single breath, in conversing with someone, while in traffic, through my struggle with time and responsibility, while engaging everything... the more we can practice this, the more we create time for Spirit to come alive through us.
Of course, some days will be easier than others, but it becomes a practice wherein we allow ourselves to invite those moments in, deeper and deeper.. embodying Spirit moment by moment… and we begin to glimpse just how very full and blessed we really are.
That is what my week has been.
What have you found within yours? Where might you invite in the beautiful Spirit that breathes within you?
Bless us all...each and every one.
Munay 💗🤍🖤💜💙💚💛🧡❤️
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