Thursday, February 9, 2012

I came home

Every morning I pull a card from my Caroline Myss/Peter Occhiogrosso Healing Cards deck. I let that card be my guide for the day, allowing its insights to direct my spiritual unfolding.

And while the message on the front of the card resonated, "Everything lost is found again; everything hurt is healed again." it was the clarification on the back of the card that rocked my world. "This truth has the power to retrieve a part of your spirit from the past. It's a mantra that's strong enough to overcome past injuries. This will be your constant thought today."

And while the thought may not have been constant throughout the day, it definitely resonated often. I kept coming back to the idea of 'retrieving a part of my spirit from the past.' That statement has deep, deep meaning for me.

B.C. (before Conrad -- the relationship from hell) I had a deep sense of spiritual connection. A deep and abiding belief in the miraculous nature of humankind and our universe. I was on the path and shining in its light.

And then, I got lost on the road to hell. One of the most challenging aspects of that journey was the  spiritual rape I experienced. I felt like my very essence, my beliefs, my knowing was ripped away and I struggled to reclaim that aspect of my being that was stolen from me.

Over these past almost nine years since his arrest and my release from that relationship, I have healed and grown and moved beyond the sadness and trauma of those events. But still that sense of caution, that sense of fearing reclaiming my spiritual essence has burbled just beneath the surface of my being One in this universal Love that is All.

I have resisted. I have hesitated to trust the Universe, to give over my will to being One with the One.

Last night at meditation I felt it. I felt the shift, the opening, the knowing, the becoming One. I felt it and knew it and experienced it and danced in the wonder of it and cried in the beauty of its rapturous embrace.

And after the session, when Dal, our guide asked me, "What do you know?", I knew. I knew I am a spiritual being of light. That we are all spiritual beings of light. There were moments in the meditation process (and yes, it was very active!) when I felt my resistance to surrender absolutely pulsing with fear.  And the 'voice' kept calling, "Surrender your will. Surrender." and I kept resisting until I could resist no longer. I had choose. Let go or fall into the darkness. I let go and I danced.

"It was never lost," Dal said when I expressed my sorrow over having lost my spiritual essence through that journey through hell. "Soul is never lost. It is always there, always waiting, always ready for us to quit resisting.

And it was. There. Waiting. Ready. Willing to receive my letting go and surrendering to Love.

Everything lost is found again; everything hurt is healed again.

I came home last night.

And I am joyful.

Namaste.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Elgie,

not sure I can ever buy the 'spiritual/religious' element of this, but your concept is sound

many years ago (though it did not immediately click) someone taught me the concept of 'microscopic truth telling' ...

which was explained to me as not only telling the truth, answering the question, but also telling the full truth as one would if the asking party knew what questions to ask . . .

in other words, the whole over-the-top with completeness truth

it took me many years

then I learned, slowly, to be that way with others

and, finally, I was able to do it with myself

I think there is much 'the same' between that experience and what you describe this morning

Cheers,

Mark

Louise Gallagher said...

"Microscopic truth telling" nice.

I call it -- Integral honesty -- being scrupulous with my truth.

and yes, it definitely opens me up to what is.

Thanks Mark!

Maureen said...

When one is injured - whether the damage is done by another or oneself - truth first must be acknowledged or admitted to for forgiveness to be possible. The forgiveness is for the person receiving the truth, not the one who has done the damage. Forgiveness makes it possible both to let go the injury and to reclaim the spirit the injury once contained.

There really is great power in truth and truth-telling; it's when truth goes missing that so much damage gets done.

Louise Gallagher said...

So true Maureen! The challenge is often -- I have my truth. You have your truth -- and the gap is where the hurt lies. Healing it takes acknowledging both our truths have a voice -- it's what we choose/want/can do in that field of pain that creates the promise of more... truth. :)

Hugs

Unknown said...

I have to go and check out your cards, they sound great. I made the decision to put my cards away many years ago, I miss them some days.