Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.
There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.
The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours. They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here. In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.
"You were made for this", Clarissa Pinkola Estees
http://www.wanttoknow.info/youweremadeforthis
Maintaining contact and connection with the Islands happens in a rainbow of ways. Yesterday for example, I was at Mukilteo State Park. Parked at the edge of the beach, I sat behind the wheel of 'Scout' the Subaru waiting for the squall to pass through. It IS the month of rains, as it might be almost any time of the year in the Pacific Northwest. No, really, the rains are back in force this month so I waited before getting out to make my o'o carrying walk along the sloping rock-strewn shore. Getting out to the edge of big water/ocean/Puget Sound/a lake/a river is one of the 'cures' that helps me detoxify the affects of an MCS episode. This week the affects of the formaldehyde from the construction next door is what I'm working on. Oxygen rich air from ke kai or ka wai (salty or fresh water marshes) is a major fix. I truly wish Puget Sound was warm enough to swim in, aue, it is not. So, I settle for a walk and not disappointed.
