Hello all,

 

I recently was in Santé Fe celebrating a dear friends 50th birthday. We had a glorious time with several dear friends gathered, enjoying each other's company, and expressing a full range of emotions. There were tears flowing for laughter and celebration of our connections and there were tears flowing for tender awareness of how precious are the times together. Throughout our time we were fully present with one another.

This Sunday we celebrate All Saints Day. A time that historically is to celebrate all the saints who from their labor's now rest. We are familiar with the intention and intimacy and other expressions of this time as Halloween, All Hallow Eve, All Soul's Day, and the Day of the Dead. Many faith traditions refer to this time as the veil between this life, death, and the next is very thin.

I wonder about these thin places in our lives. On these special days, we pay close attention to how fragile and precious life, and love, and loving connections are to us. I wonder what our connections would be like with one another if we did this more often? Living in this present moment, always aware we don't know what tomorrow or the next moment will bring. No longer carrying with us the thought of oh I'll wait and tell them this special thing when the timing is right. Or I will settle this conflict, when time passes. I wonder how much energy we physically and emotionally carry with the unresolved and unspoken pieces of not living in this very moment. And what surge of energy we would receive by speaking at the very moment we notice, feel, experience something, verses waiting? King Solomon give us this invitation (Ecc 9.7-9 paraphrased), - Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart...do not spare precious ointment on your heard, enjoy life with your beloved during the days of life you have here. What would happen in our relationships if sharing our love, our appreciations, our moments were done right here right now in this moment? Who have you hesitated telling them you love them?

Walking in this journey together,
Dee