The Hardest Thing
There are a lot of difficult things about a spiritual awakening. I used to say that “awakening is not for the faint of heart or weak in spirit.” A spiritual journey has moments of breathtaking beauty and indescribable joy, but it’s also intense, overwhelming, bewildering, terrifying, and brutal. It’s more “both and” than “this or that.” I’ve been reflecting on my awakening journey lately. It began around 1995 but accelerated in 2012. During those years, Spirit repeatedly tried to reach me, but I was either distracted or too deeply in denial to answer. **There’s a bible verse that says “Many are called but few are chosen.” There’s some contention around the translation. Many scholars believe that the true translation of that verse to be “Many are called but few CHOOSE.” Because we are afforded the experience of free will in this reality, as always, it is up to us to choose.
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The Bravery of Coming Home
It takes a lot of bravery to come home. When I speak about coming home, I mean it in a couple of ways. There’s the literal sense of me returning to the town I grew up in. A town that I left almost 35 years ago and [with the exception of a few holiday visits] haven’t ever really come back to. The experience of returning to Cody has rocked the foundation of my life. Not only through the process of caring for my father, which certainly can’t be underestimated. It’s a daily journey that breaks me open to deeper and deeper levels of trust, insight, and compassion in almost every moment
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