Independence Day

There is little more unnerving and disturbing while totally necessary, and divine, then moving forward and letting go. Life allows us many options, even though as human beings, we desire to believe that is simply not the case. I cannot count the number of times someone has spoken to me, "But- I don't have a choice. I have run out of options." If that is how you feel, then you have run out of brains. Remember yourself! You are an individual- bestowed with a thousand precious moments, and a thousand precious gifts. Do not sacrifice yourself to less important principles; people come and go, seconds tick by if you are here or not. You cannot make up for lost time. What is it that you cannot accomplish when you truly see the world in this perspective?

Which brings me to my next stop...

How many of us, as lost people, as found people, as infants and elders, walk around this world with so much grief and so much anguish that was never meant to be ours? How many of us say that we have "forgiven" when those same forgiven events, linked like a starving, malicious dog to a dying elm- keep us so hopelessly awake at night? I am suspended in a sense of awe at how much pressure the world CAN hold over us. (Notice how I do not use the word "does".) Why allow such a dismantled, confused and rotten place to hold YOU to a standard of conduct- to trick you in to living a certain way, in to living a double life and swimming idly in a fester of double standards? It is the belief that, in this world, a man can walk on both sides. He won't be caught, he won't be stopped... but, that too is such a dripping lie. Everyone has to answer someone, and every one, no matter what, is dust to dust and ashes to ashes. Can there be any greater hypocrisy than to believe that the rules of the universe, of man and of God, do not apply to you?

What I mean is, the "world" is not moral. She does not care for your reasons, or your excuses- there is only pushes and pulls, actions and reactions. The "world" is not understanding, compassionate, forgiving, healthy or loving. Those are things that we as people hope to breed between each other; within families, communities and (so often forgotten) in our OWN hearts. This dream, this desire and need to fix the windshield of the world requires the utmost sacrifice imaginable- the cutting of ties, the constant expenditure of energy, and the complete willingness to listen to voices so much quieter than yours, for they are the whisperings of your calling and the wisdom that should belong to you. It requires complete surrender to the higher calling... and this does not make you any less important, in fact, it swells your validity and worth to a tremendous measure. (Isn't that what sin and deception feeds on? The human need to feel important?) When you stop living for you, and begin to live for betterment, for justice and for divinity- suddenly, you are something more. Even on this plane, so diseased and lost, that fact is universal.

This Indepenence Day, was the first of true Independence.