100 Days of things that have changed my life.
Lately I have had the opportunity to really delve into some deep spiritual work. The results of this work have been profound to say the least. I have really taken the time to step into and out of my life’s experiences and view them from all sides and vantage points. What I realize is that all the success, prosperity, abundance, education, opportunities, and faith that I have experienced in my life have truly been steps in consciousness and without each of these steps my life and I would be very different. For every step, I am grateful…
For the past few days, I have been coming to a place of clarity in working with 100 days of … (something or other). (You know how a thought just won’t leave you alone…) I sat with this idea wondering if this was mine to do, or was my task to just be ready to support this work for someone else. Last evening during my meditation time, the vision rushed in so clearly and Spirit spoke so lovingly – “This one’s for you and through you”. Since I trust the voice and move of Spirit, for the next 100 days, I will write about all the things that have influenced, guided, and shaped my life – my being. Of all the things that I have done in my life, I trust that this journey from people to places, from sayings to songs, from literature to laughter and beyond will take us all to places and moments that we remember and others that we will experience together for the first time. We travel without a map, umbrella, train fare or vision of the destination; this one is all about the journey! I hope that you are up for walking with me and somewhere along the way I know that you will find a path that takes you and your life into the newness that awaits.
With that being said – Here we go!!
Day 1 – From the music that has influenced my life…One of the things that I love about life itself is watching how music can take a room full of people from different places, who speak different languages and may even have different views and turn them from a crowd of many into the voice of one. I believe that music is one of the many threads in the fabric of our being that chisels away the threats of difference and brings into sharp focus our sameness. One of the songs that has really influenced my life and it just keeps on showing up in new and unexpected ways is from the R&B Disco genre (Yes, of the 70’s) – Sister Sledge’s 1979 Album and single – We Are Family.
I have watched this very song take a room full of people from ages 1-80 and bring them into a time a space of pure connectedness! This song spans generations, cultures, and genres as it allows us to know on a soul level that we are one and as I gaze out into their smiling faces, watching their heads bob to the funky rhythm of the groove, and their eyes light up when they get to the chorus and they begin to sing with a great sense of knowing that we are family and I’ve got everybody with me. In that moment of realization we are so very powerful because we let nothing separate from love and we see how together we can do, be and bring about anything. In that moment, the walls come down, the chasm between us closes, the battles we fight seem so unimportant and we see the truth in one another – we are family, (we are kinfolk) we are in this now moment together. I am because you are; and you are because I am.
Today is day 1 and we have miles to go before we rest and I invite you to examine your own life for songs that have influenced your being and to take the opportunity wherever you are right now reading this to look up and around and see the faces of your new family as they surround you. See them blessed and beloved, love them anyway, know them as God sees them and let each one do the same for you. If you can, lay down your weapons, your differences, your views and perspectives and do one of the simplest things ever - just be. Life is both long and short, and we really can live it, love it, and groove right in the midst of it together. We can do this only because we are family!
Because we are family, please know I love you, bless you, celebrate with you and most of all, I behold the Christ in you.
Peace & Infinite Possibilities,
Kathy
