Transition – Chaos or Grace
Chaos or Grace is a perspective of how I view an experience. Is it an opportunity to grow or time of trial and tribulation?
Life’s passages, the bridge between here and here:
Rather than resist life’s passages and lessons we must learn to surrender and accept the challenges presented to us, viewing each challenge as a Divine message; an opportunity for transcendence.
Between each new experience and lesson is a time of transition, which presents itself as chaos or disorientation. In this time a space or void is created. A place of emptiness, a place to wait! I like to imagine the void space as if entering a joint in the body, a space between one bone and another that is constructed to allow movement. We are leaving one form of movement behind and entering a ’pre’ moment, an experience that will lead to a new movement. Having completed the old and not quite ready to enter into a new, unknown beginning. This space, void or joint is a ‘hangout joint,’ waiting – waiting – waiting …a place of emptiness that generally breeds fear and apprehension. The imagination flourishes here most often with ‘negative possibilities.’ This dreaded experience if willingly embraced and experienced is actually a harbinger of grace.
And whether or not you address the emptiness it is always there!
Imagine sitting with a quiet mind in tune with the universe allowing the emptiness. Not thinking of the future not recounting past fears, and imminent survival, no money, no food, no people, no things, just being in the present moment. Using the gift of imagination as a tool of ‘positivity’ and creating an experience of contentment, of trust, filled with the Whole. Emptiness and wholeness one and the same, empty – full, light, shadow all accepted and cherished as part of the Whole.
I said to my soul be still, be still and wait without hope.
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love.
For love would be love for the wrong thing, there is yet faith.
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought , for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T.S. Eliot: “East Coker”
By and by one day you will become “empty full” and you will overflow with joy, with contentment, with love. You will have become so abundant so filled with grace you’ll have to share. And thereafter, you will always have faith that your needs will be taken care of. That you will thrive!
GRATITUDE!
