We are Starshine … (07/22/12)
“Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as blue-gray as the wind. Both seemed alive with questions … By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh; patiently awaiting the moment when it could continue on its journey into forever.” ~ Tim Willocks
Each one of us is a similar sliver of starshine riding around in a fleshly machine we call “the body”. And yet for each of us there is no need to patiently wait for that machine to release us … Indeed, we each set forth into eternity every time we reach out to Love the unlovable; every time we give to those deemed undeserving; every time we gently bless those who have harmed us or others; every time we set aside our criticisms & complainings in order to See the world as the innately glorious wonderland it always is.
Though our own eyes might not be of different colors, they do see two very different realities.
The “brown eye” within us sees the troubles of the world and complains about them; sees life’s perpetrators and yearns to inflict them with “justice” … It sees the everyday things as “boring”, the unattractive things as “ugly”, and the inappropriate things as “bad”.
Our “blue-gray eye”, however, sees the same Reality very differently … For this eye, the world’s troubles become opportunities to Care; our enemies, priceless chances to Forgive … With this vision, nothing is “boring” or “ugly” or “bad” — everything we see is Seen for the first time; everything we see is new and amazing and Beauty-full.
In every moment of our precious lives we each have a choice as to how we will See the Life we have been given.
And how we choose to See that moment will determine what we then choose to Do (or not Do) with it …
Love sees as the wind; ever-flowing & ever-giving & ever-amazed …
… got Love?
“At any moment, you have a choice
that either leads you closer to your Spirit —
or further away from it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
P.S. Our ability to See is almost as important as our ability to choose.
It’s an amazing world out there. Please choose to SEE it …
… and please choose to act accordingly.
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