Sacred Mess Of Nature

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Lío sagrado de la naturaleza

Lucy Grace

Una semilla se acaba convirtiendo en la flor más hermosa. Pero primero debe romperse, resquebrajarse, viajar por el barro sin garantías y entregarse al instinto y a la voluntad de existencia. No sabe que hay luz a través del barro del crecimiento. No sabe que su desmantelamiento conducirá a su florecimiento: pero sigue el impulso.

Sigue el desorden sagrado de la naturaleza. Y Dios es ese desastre. Nosotros somos ese desastre. Desorden inteligente. No podemos gritarle a la semilla que "¡florezca!" antes de que sea el momento. Necesita agua, luz solar, paciencia. Y cuando esté lista, se abre. Tampoco podemos gritarnos a nosotros mismos “¡ábrete!” "¡sana!" O "¡ríndete!"

Sólo podemos afrontar lo que realmente está aquí ahora, profunda y seriamente, y elegir seguir abriéndonos a lo que es, confiando en la inteligencia innata de la vida. Nuestro desarrollo está ocurriendo en el momento perfecto. Como la semilla, nos doblamos, nos rompemos, nos elevamos... y a través de todo, Gracia.

Una vez que llegamos a experimentar la vida como la profunda benevolencia que es: la maravilla y la magia de la existencia nos llenan, podemos soltar el control y ver a través de la arrogancia y la limitación de una mente humana, pensando que podría saber cualquier cosa. “Dios” ama cada cabello de tu cabeza, exactamente tal como eres. La “espiritualidad” incluye todas las partes de ti, las profundas y las profanas. Lo humillante y lo santo.

Desde este lugar, desde esta gracia, las contracciones y los miedos se alivian y finalmente se liberan, permitiéndonos caer cada vez más profundamente en la rendición, en la luz profunda, para que pueda infundir y cuidar la experiencia humana, conectando a Dios, a través de ti. , aquí. Aquí es donde encontramos la intersección del espíritu y la materia. Lo divino, en todas partes.

Así que dejad vuestras cargas. Quítate las máscaras. Aquí tienes un hogar para que descanses. He aquí un Dios que os ama a todos, sin importar lo que sean, lo que no sean, lo que hagan o no hagan. Aquí tienes amigos que ven a través de tu desorden sagrado, el poder, la luz indomable y la verdad que siempre eres. Y al hacerlo, llámalo cada vez más profundamente.

Lucy Grace es buscadora, autora, madre y poeta. :) El extracto anterior es la introducción de su último libro, This Untameable Light.

PREGUNTAS SEMILLAS PARA LA REFLEXIÓN: Mientras una semilla está floreciendo, ¿qué te ayuda a encontrar la paciencia para permanecer quiet@ dentro del desorden, mientras cultivas la fe en que, en última instancia, es un "desorden inteligente" sagrado? ¿Cómo se equilibra el liderazgo con lo profundo y al mismo tiempo se incluye lo profano? ¿Cuál ha sido una experiencia que te dio una idea de tu "luz indomable"?
Seed Questions for Reflection

As a seed is blooming, what helps you find the patience to stay still within the mess, while cultivating faith that it's ultimately a sacred and an "intelligent mess"? How do you balance leading with the profound while being inclusive of the profane? What has been an experience that gave you insight into your "untameable light?"

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15 Past Reflections
AS
Jun 14, 2024
What helps me keep patience? The understanding that I have no idea what the universe has in store for me, I am in this mess right now but this mess may lead to a beautiful garden that will bring more peace, and learning in my life or it may not, the patience comes for the faith that it might. The mess needs to dealt with elegantly and to the best of my abilities, the rest isn't something I can control so letting go of that expectation helps .
FI
Jun 13, 2024
As I read this piece (and I enjoy reading so many of these offering!) I could not help but think of all the plants that don’t even make it. As a gardener and fan of permaculture, I witness so many that never flourish. Some actually end up in the compost, to help other plants. Some get flooded out or dry to dust. Some never get to germination Nate at all. Often I think my practice in mindful living is such a privilege. I have not been snuffed out by wildfires, floods or worse so far. Nor have I had a very unfortunate birth or been hit by a fast moving vehicle. This gives me the privilege to even talk about such esoteric subjects. I am one ‘who practices ‘like my hair were on fire.’ I must be mindful to live with the unexpected, go with the flow of uncertainty and trust that God has all my lessons in hand. I really try to learn by them all. But life is a teetering balance for me, on my own. Old age looms, provisions for living are minimal, grandchildren grow in un... View full comment
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Sarah
Jun 11, 2024
Yesterday was a perfect Northern Michigan day. Bright blue sky, trees verdant with a week’s worth of rain. I sat on the ground, sun in my eyes, iris and poppies blooming next to me, and trimmed pottery in my lap. Scent of clay, iris, grass, buzz of bees and high wind in the maple trees - my gosh, life is amazing. Grateful little being I am.
AP
Jun 11, 2024
Thanks for unburdening the Mess of Nature.
Just as we keep exploring means to support the seed blooming into a flower, we need to explore and evolve modes for laying down our burden if any and feel the love of God.
JS
Jun 11, 2024
Repeated failures in Life made me silent and attentive to reality and assists me to stay with my Mess and yet learn to not give in to self loathing. Instead learn to love all of me. Only this way of being will help us understand the mammoth of emotional energy flowing in others as they manage to preserve their self worth through brutal world we have made outside. My day dreaming is assisting me to show how it is possible to live in such harsh conditions with Love and give subtle tweaks to the layer of reality leading to saner results. I am an artist of Life learning the way to co-author my life with God. I realised to drop all assumptions about future and my own self, first. Meet reality without assumptions like justice happens, good wins, judging about karmas of my own as well as others I remember to live focusing on my work while engaging with world in a meaningful and a sane way by being more conscious of my actions by thoughts, speech, and behaviour. To learn... View full comment
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JD
Jun 10, 2024
The sacred mess is there, no doubt. But human beings have to "live and bloom" through the non-scared mess called society with its norms filled with a fair share of hypocrisy and manipulations etc. And often, if not always, this undermines the scared mess. Society, just like religion, as a construct has gone far beyond its formational utility and turned largely detrimental. Is stopping to live in society or forming a separate sub-faction which resonates with one's thoughts the right path? Surrender to grace is not the same as surrender to society.
JD
Jun 8, 2024
I totally agree that we have to learn to trust the unfathomable ways through which life unfolds. And I know deep inside that I should be grateful for the opportunities to witness the wonders at every moment; we only have to choose the right perspective.

Nonetheless, we are also here to evolve and grow.

I think the real challenge is to know when to act and when to wait in patience. Unlike the seed, we humans are given choices. In every turn, each of our decisions inevitably alters what we would next encounter.
FI
Fiona Jun 13, 2024
Even plants evolve and grow! lol! But I liked your reply. It’s so true that we get to chose to a certain degree. My meditation of late though is about those plants and people who don’t get any choice in a flood, forest fire or worse. Even the unfortunate, who can chose moment to moment positivity, but ultimately are at the mercy of so much they have no control over.
JP
Jun 7, 2024
The opening line of this passage " A seed eventually blossoms into the most beautiful flower."is a call for awakening the Self which cannot be realized by outside sources like prestge, possesions and power. We need to be awakened from the deep sleep of ignorance and illusion. Such an awakening takes time. It requires patience, perseverance and willingness to clear up the innermost mess. The inner door of the temple of the heart is always open. We need to wake up from the darkness of ignorance and illusion and have willingness and faith for freeing ourselves from self-created bondage. The challenge for me is how to live in the world but not of the world.To live fully I need to empty my shack of possesiveness and attachgments. I need to clear my eyes to let the Divine light in. And to let the coluds in my mind clear in order to see the luminous light shining within me. I need to create a dynamic balance between holding on and letting go. Sometimes I like to hold on to what pleases ... View full comment
SI
Jun 7, 2024
Dear ALL,
in deep humbleness I am holding mySELF in AWE&WONDER when the seed grows into blossoming. Indeed it has its own process and MOMENTS of the interwoveness discribed as „Chaos“. I like to CARE and hold mySELF in the high and ongoing attendive awareness of „whats needed“.....and „LISTENING“ (=sensing, feeling, attuning,.....)
Readying mySELF to serve, whats needed, if.....
Once I have „done“ all that, in readying.....I can let go and surrender mySELF into ALL and be with it.
So the profan assists/serves the profound (and vice versa) and while holding mySELF&ALL in that awareness, I have done what I need to do.....til the next experience when light is turning on its „calling“ to listen again and learn/see/....and serve again.
Thanks for listening.
all my relations siegFried🔥🔥🔥
DD
Jun 7, 2024
What helps me be patient is knowing I can cause much harm by acting too fast and unnecessarily. Intervening and trying to help are tricky, so be very cautious doing either. It helps me to know I can't make blooming happen, to trust nature to do its thing, and to intervene in an effort to facilitate as a last resort. It helps me to know it's only a perception to see the workings of nature as a mess. I see what is called profound and profane as one. We separate wholeness into parts that we call profound and profane. Trying to tame light, and failing at it, gives me insight that the light is untameable. It's not an object for me to tame. I am in the light, not the light in me. I can be open to it, not tame it.
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Vicky Jun 11, 2024
"I am in the light, not the light in me." Such a subtle but profound difference. Thank you!
SH
Jun 6, 2024
Hallelujah! Amen! But why is it a ‘mess.’ I sense a beautiful perfect order and balance in nature which Is His handiwork—we ate the mess because we are so alienated from it due to our overly clever minds…..just my thought.
BA
Jun 6, 2024
The Power of the sun ☀️