MY WAY ..SLOW DOWN TO GO FASTER
Just recently my partner and I were involved with a Co-creation process at New Vision Center and wow, was it spectacular. Reverend Doctor Kathy Hearn was leading us in a healing experience to become what we want to see in a new minister.
She used a phrase that resonated with me greatly. We have to slow down to go quickly. When we want something in our life we need to stop and listen to the divine within. As a practice in my life, I am not good with the discipline, at all, with daily meditation. But long before any spiritual awareness of any definition of it, I used this in my life.
I would stop. The indicator for me was something didn't feel good. It could be a job for instance, and as a single mom, I would have friends who would say, "are you nuts? You just quit your job without another one".
I would just quit my job and sit...I had no idea why or what I was doing. But I did know that staying in something that was making me miserable wasn't a good idea.
When I sat and did nothing, I would begin to hear something. I called it a whisper. When I tried to make something happen, I didn't hear the voice. When I sat and listened, I heard a calling. This was early in my life with my son when this began. I can surely say now that is was the beginning of me having faith and trusting in something more than me. The pushing and prodding at life, the fighting didn't work.
Doors opened. Voices came. New beginnings always sprang forth from the "going slower to go faster"!
I sit now in a time of my life with a path that was closed to me. The doors to my home as a place of healing (The Real Love House) came to a screeching halt due to HOA issues.
Interesting enough this gives me time to sit in silence again and voila', there is a voice inside I have not listened to in a while from being so busy in all the doing.
In the "slowing down to go faster", I have heard a voice to become a Practitioner of Religious Science. The principles of Real Love that I have taught for a decade began to feel limiting. I didn't know what I wanted. But it has become clear. I have space and time in my life now to study and go deeper in my own healing and spiritual life.
I am so glad that somehow a long time ago I learned to listen to the still small voice. I learned to slow down to go quickly. I learned to have faith by practicing patience when sometimes it seems we should be doing something more. Nope...for me, the voice is strongest when I am not moving at all.
Thank you life and so it is!
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