Fire Fairy
Isn’t synchronicity so very, very cool? (Please try to follow my train of thought – there is a connection; ) I’ve had some pieces of ideas mulling around the back of my head this year and I just started connecting them up, and now you are the lucky recipients of them ; )
You are a star. You are extraordinary. That was the sign (or something like that)on the wall of my third grade classroom. It was 29 years ago, but I remember feeling both special and not impressed with the teacher’s surface attempts at raising my self-esteem.
This fall, soon after the Occupy Wall Street events started happening a FB friend posted something to the effect that if you don’t physically go and support the movement, you are against it. The thread went on and on a bit: The whole, ‘you are either with me, or against me’ idea. I felt pressured, uncomfortable for a bit, and misunderstood for quite a while.
This weekend, my baby girl woke up quite sick. Her eyes were hooded. Her lips turned down and she shlumped in her sling. I am so very thankful that I was able to help her along with homeopathy. Sometimes energy medicine is quiet and slow, other times it so quickly assists in healing that it feels like magic. Again and again I gave her her remedy and she would perk up, and be her little shining self, and then she would get punky. We went through that pattern all day on Saturday and more subtly on Sunday. My skills were able to help my darling baby girl feel better, and probably heal faster. How star-shiny cool is that?
This summer, I read part of a book by Caroline Myss called Sacred Contracts. One point of the book is that we all have our jobs and lessons in this world to fulfill and we all have our strengths to fulfill them. One of the things I loved about this book is that we are not all the same. We are all different, with different abilities and skills. So you don’t have to have a beautiful singing voice. You don’t have to remember everyone’s birthdays. And, I don’t have to go on marches to protest something that I feel strongly about. (I will leave that to my once-hippy in-laws, and some of my amazing friends, and all of the patient and wonderfully stubborn people who Occupied this year). You don’t need to be able to hear flowers talk to you, or know how to use reiki. Listening to flowers, moving energy – that is my job and I’m happy to share it with you either as a recipient or a fellow lover of energy. We just need to follow our soul’s quest, discover what makes our own stars shine, and share that light with the world.
And, you don’t need to be far along and firmly in your quest – testing, experimenting, FAILING – it’s all important.
I felt such a release and sense of power and clarity when I realized all of this. I don’t have to be everything – just beautiful shiny me.
If you wish, I would love to hear what your shiny starry self loves to do.
MEM:
~Music class with sweet girl. Oh, she was so much fun last week. I’ve been looking forward to another one since then.
~ quiet space – We just got back from almost a week of being away. It was truly wonderful, but so is my home. I’m glad to be back.
~ a clean space – I’m still loving and appreciating all the work my mother did, cleaning up after our messy selves.
~a job well done – The Peachy Sneaks struck again, and we had so much fun doing it.
Have a star shiny day!
