Where does one find Goddess/Spirit?
The last couple of days I have been having a conversation with a woman that I have chatted with for over 4 years. She has walked a pagan path for 10 years or so and has been struggling with connecting to Goddess.
After several conversations it became apparent (to me) that the issue wasn't so much that she wasn't connecting as much as it was she didn't recognize the connection.
Over the years I have heard many complain that they do not feel Spirit/God/Goddess yet when you sit and start talking to them you find that yes they do indeed feel Spirit but they do not recognize the connection. I think in this world we live in we expect a life changing, big bang type of experience. Something that will knock us off of our feet. Never realizing that if we sit back and pay attention the everyday connection we feel is a big bang experience.
In this day and time we are busy. Always busy. I hear more often than not that I just don't have time in my life to sit with Spirit. Yet we can spend hours watching tv. We can spend hours cleaning, writing, paying bills, you name it we can find time to do it but we can't find 10 minutes in a day to focus on spending time with Spirit. We were raised this way. Disconnected. We were raised to focus on everything outside of us and to make those things important in our lives. We were raised to believe that nature was out there and we didn't have time to just go sit in it. It would always be there so "someday" we would find time. When we find time it is picnic time. Time to take the family out and play frisbee. Not time to just go and sit. Who does that anyway? Hippies? Weird people? This is the view of many of us.
We walk down the street we live on or through a mall and we never give thought to what is beneath our feet. We live in a man made world. Tall buildings. Asphalt streets. Concrete sidewalks. Smog filled cities. Stores with false lighting. Yet under all of this sits Mother Earth. If you stop and take a moment you can feel her heartbeat under your feet. If you stop and take a moment and look around you will see her beauty. It is only a moment yet it is a connection that is desperately needed in our world right now.
You can indeed feel Spirit if you take a moment to do so. You can hear Spirit speak to you if you take a moment to listen.
Start by walking out your front door. Is the Sun shining? Feel it beat down on your face - that is Spirit.
Is the wind blowing? Stop and listen to it - it speaks you know. That is Spirit talking to you. Is it raining? Feel the rain on your face, you don't need to run to get out of the rain, stop and feel it. Your hair will dry. Your clothes will dry. It is ok to feel the rain. It is Spirit washing away your problems. Your heavy energy that you insist on holding onto. Let it wash away! Do you have a fire going in your home? That is Spirit talking to you - hear the wood crackle as it burns to warm you? The wood is telling you its story. Listen.
Did you hear a baby cry today? That is Spirit opening your heart. Did you see an elderly person walking by? We turn our heads and hearts away from elderly people? Why? Because we are fearful of death yet that is Spirit telling us about the cycle of life. Did you see someone in need today? That was Spirit teaching you compassion.
My point here is that we can find Spirit in everything! Spirit is always there and here, right inside of you. The more you listen. The more you pay attention the more connected to Spirit you become. Spirit is not outside of you. Spirit is within. Spirit resides within each of us all of the time. We only have to pay attention to the lessons that Spirit is showing us. Embrace them. Be thankful.
When we find the things in our life to be thankful for Spirit increases them. Even in the worst of situations we can find blessings if we look. You are alive! You have another day to make a difference. Be thankful for that day. Be thankful you are here. Be thankful for the very breath you take. Be thankful for all that you have. Be thankful for the lessons that you have learned and the growing you have done as a human. Those lessons have been difficult but you have survived them - BE THANKFUL!
When you come to Spirit with a thankful heart your life changes exponentially. When you find the small things in life that connect you to Spirit your life changes and your awareness increases. Spirit is within. Spirit is always talking to you. Will you listen? Will you find that knowing within? Will you find thankfulness in your heart? Go and grow! Your big bang is waiting!
