Perception is key...

I woke up the other morning with this energy flowing out of the bottom of my foot.  I have had this happen before.  It is a sign that my body wants to tell me something.  So, I sank into my heart to listen.

When I got to my heart, I opened all the drapes so I could see out into its landscape.  Much of the time the landscapes change as I change direction.  This time each drape I opened was the desert.  North.  South.  East.  West.  All desert.

Now, I know I am deep in grief — the grief that comes from major life transitions.  I have left my self-care healing support network, my community of friends, my creative community, my Sacred lands and moved away.  Grief is normal.

So when I saw the desert surrounding my heart, I wept.  I am in the desert, alone. Desolation entered my heart.

Then….  I stepped outside my heart chamber into that desert.  I reached down and scooped up some sand.  It felt Sacred in my hands.  I walked around the outside of my heart and watched the landscape change from Middle Eastern/ Northern Egyptian desert to SW New Mexico desert.  I saw the beauty around me.  The red rocks and mesas.  Flowers and trees.  Dunes.  Creatures. 

I was standing on Sacred ground — the ground of the Desert Abbas and Ammas; the ground of the Shaman.  This was no ordinary desert I am in.  This is an invitation to dive deep into desert spirituality; to learn the depth of what it can teach me, of how it can ground me and connect me to the Holy.

It is all about perspective.  One perspective leads me to desolation; the other to consolation — to communion with the Holy.

We have a choice in our experiences.  We can choose the lens through which we will perceive what we are experiencing.  That is our choice.

I choose desert spirituality.  I choose the invitation to sink deeper into the Holy.  

What would you choose?