what a perfect image for our weekly installment of showing you the astonishing light of your being… yes, you, like his holiness, showing up as sunshine… yes, you showing up being love… yes, you, being harmonizing healer… thousandfold thanks for being an astonishing light of being… seeing the best in others, spreading lovingkindness virally…
“better to light a candle than curse the darkness”
for our weekly segment around showing you the astonishing light of being, i offer this picture of and blessing from the sacred spirit of rainbow mystery, sister of the cosmic hum in all her iridescence to remind us when we are in the dark, we can always come home to the inner light by breathing in through the heart… and while we’re on the subject of the astonishing light of rainbows…
How the Rainbow Works
Mostly we occupy ocular zones, clinging
only to what we think we can see.
We can’t see wind or waves of thought,
electrical fields or atoms dancing;
only what they do or make us believe.
Look on all of life as color –
vibratile movement, heart-centered,
from invisibility to the merely visible.
Never mind what happens when one of us dies.
Where were you before you even get born?
Where am I and all the unseeable souls
we love at this moment, or loathed
before birth? Where are we right now?
Everything that ever happened either
never did or always will with variations.
Let’s put it another way: Nothing ever
happened that wasn’t dreamed, that wasn’t
sketched from the start with artful surprises.
Think of the dreamer as God, a painter,
a ham, to be sure, but a divine old master
whose medium is light and who sidesteps
tedium by leaving room both inside and outside
this picture for subjects and scenery to wing it.
~ Al Young ~
in the excitement of celebrating birthdays yesterday and the extraordinary light of Martin Luther King, et.al, i didn’t share the image for the weekly edition of a picture worth a thousand words describing the astonishing light of your being… so, it is with great delight i share this image of your inner light… please forgive my not going into the long story of how this illuminated you came to me…. suffice it to say an angel of light is involved…
whenever you are feeling lonely, overwhelmed, out of sorts, look at the light you are re-membering what always glows inside of you… the power to drive out darkness…
it’s time once again for our weekly picture that speaks a thousand words about the astonishing light of your being and i’m feeling this lotus blossom does just that… these flowers, when surrounded by fire or suffering or adversity become even more fragrant just as your light, your beauty awakens in such moments and your compassionate heart shines through… thanks be that our inner light can never be extinguished no matter how dark the times may feel… so, gaze into this flower, breathe in the sweetness and connect even more deeply in this moment with the lotus lightness of being you are and evermore will be… deep bows…
here is a perfect image to show you the astonishing light of your own being… as you gaze on the light radiating from both of these lovely sunflowers, take a moment to put your hands on your heart saying, I AM basically good… I AM basically good… I AM basically good… relax even more deeply into basic goodness by moving your hands to your belly and breathing this in again and again…
and now, let’s anchor this feeling of the light of love we are with the intention of being compassion and lovingkindness with all our relations beginning with ourselves as we bring up an image of the innocent child alive in us and as breath breathes us, bless all that is with happiness and safety and health and ease…
re-member there’s only one of us here… a streaming wave of luminous, phosphorescent flotsam drifting on an invisible dark sea, an unfolding dance of rainbow mystery always being love, always becoming love…
it’s the moment for the next installation of I wish I could show you the astonishing light of your being… Once again, it’s an honor to celebrate you of the visionary spirit, you who shares so generously the energy of the grandmothers, the wisdom of our one heart… I am so inspired by your activism, both inner and outer, mirroring that of the thirteen grandmothers, of the first peoples, of all our relations as we each take one more step, one more breath on the pathless path, deeper and deeper into the unknown on a wing and a prayer grounded in trusting pachamama…
heart to heart, always together…