Once in a while, we are presented with a challenge that immediately reveals itself as a growth experience. In this circumstance, we need to politely turn down offers of help and find the strength to meet the challenge on our own. When we are given the opportunity to test our personal resources and discover what we have learned in the journey through this life, our personal vision of ourselves can be nurtured and confirmed. To live only to fulfill the expectations of others shows disregard for our unique purpose. When we listen with the ears of the heart to our own inner voice, we will discover the loving intent of the internal and eternal Creative Spirit. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento)
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Sometimes we need help on our path through this life. To stubbornly feel we are each able to supply all of our needs at every turn ignores the obvious reality that we are all here now to grow with the help and nurturing of those around us. When we try to separate ourselves from the community and go it on our own, we not only lose possible help in our times of need, we lose the connections, one to the other, that sustain and inform the vision of the Creative Spirit. We are here to live in cooperation for the mutual benefit of the All by utilizing the energy of love. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento) In the previous entry, The Three Sisters were mentioned. Corn, beans, and squash are grown together, an important example and symbol of cooperation permitting and nurturing growth and survival. These companion crops each contribute to the survival of the other. The corn acts as a support for the beans, the squash keeps away pests, and the beans help to fertilize the ground in which the crops are planted. Just as these crops are dependent on each other for their survival, so, too, are we impelled to rely on each other for our survival in community as well as individually. When we work to ensure the growth and survival of our companions on planet Earth, we ensure our own as well. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento) When we celebrate and relish our cultural and ethnic differences, we will discover we have more in common than what we might at first recognize. Sharing our arts and cuisines can serve to highlight those aspects of each that reflect our similarities. As we enjoy what each of us can bring to the table, both figuratively and literally, we can begin to acknowledge that we are far more similar than we are different. For example, corn, squash, and beans—known as The Three Sisters in Native American cultures—are ingredients that are deliciously utilized in cuisines around the world. When we enjoy the similarities in our diversity, we strengthen our connections through the energy of love. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento) That which would serve to divide us can serve to destroy us. When we denigrate each other because of our differences, we are defying the great purpose for being here: allowing our spirits to grow individually and in community with others to fulfill the vision of the Creative Spirit. What is that vision? The totality is unknowable by incarnate beings, but we can determine that it is in part based on overcoming the physical constraints that separate us in order to find that which binds us one to the other. When we work together within the interdependent web, we can discover and nurture our oneness. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento) Here we are, each on the small plot of land that we call our own. In cities and in rural pastures, in tropical towns and on frozen tundras, in massive mansions and mud huts, we are all seemingly living separated by small and vast distances, by economic, social, and other diversities that further instill in us a sense of being alone within a small segment of the universe. In fact, when we strip away all the external manifestations of our environments, when we all stand without the trappings that suggest the limitations of our physical reality, we find that we are all the same, with the basic desire to love, be loved, and be happy. When we stand unencumbered by physical illusions, we can begin to see we are all aspects of the All. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento) When we are quiet and listen with the ears of the heart, we can become aware of that knowing voice that is not only part of us, but also is part of the larger whole. We constantly have the vast knowledge of the universe available to sustain, inform, and guide us if we stop and listen to the still small voice that is continuously intoning the loving messages that travel through the interdependent web. In this connection, at all times and in all places, we have available all the help we need, in all situations. In silence and solitude we can practice hearing the guidance that is ours. Silence is the fertile medium in which all knowledge is made available to us through the energy of love. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento) We have discovered many names for the same all encompassing spirit . . . The Source, The Creative Spirit, The Creative Force, God, Goddess, The Great Spirit. Being neither male nor female, parent nor child, it exists as the expression of the energy of love and through this energy does it manifest its intent. As part of the All, we are part of that expression, as much as the flowers, the trees, the rocks, the rivers, and the planet on which we currently reside. We act and react as aspects of the Creative Spirit, the Creative Force that breathed everything into existence. As such, we need to recognize this and become the partners in creation that we are. We do not need to argue about which name for that Spirit is the best. We only need to realize we exist within that Spirit as a part of the One. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento) Any expression of worship and respect of the deity is welcome as long as it does no harm to any other person or group. When we engage in active communion with the Creative Spirit that created the All, we connect with that which is, in reality, a part of what we are. As facets of the interdependent web that sustains all aspects of beings that were created in that first moment of this universe, we are connected to each other and to deity. When we engage in conscious awareness of something larger than ourselves, we not only are acknowledging the existence of that all-encompassing spirit, but also our relationship to it as intrinsic aspects of it. That which we consider external deity does, in fact, reside within each of us. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento) We live in a world of noise and the dissonant sounds of discord. Our intent is often misheard because of the cacophony that often permeates the atmosphere. Even when we are consciously unaware of this noise, there is a net of conflicting energies that confuses and confounds our words as we try to communicate with another person. There is now an air of anger and angst that stabs at the heart of civility. When we practice sitting in meditation, we quiet the sounds within and can send that quiet into the world around us. In so doing, we can diminish the noise of negativity and instead send positive intent outward to quiet the restless and fear-driven din. Be still and know you can be the “change you wish to see in the world.” Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento) |
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