Okay, the title is really just something I said to get attention. However, as i type the title in a question arises. When does any day become Sacred? How many days are sacred anyway? Who defines what is Sacred? Last I knew it was a group of religious cloisters hidden away who decide things based upon a social box so small that I'm surprised there is anything even remotely like clean-air still breathable within it. Or better yet, the more modernistic view that all the holidays are just creations of the gift card companies (Hallmark should be ashamed of themselves).
Every day should have something akin to a sacred aspect to it. Everyday we get to live and breathe and express joy or sorrow should be treated as sacred. The Universe is vast, and is mean VAST ... so we shouldn't take ourselves for granted or this world we have either. Everyday the Universe has another opportunity to visit us with something new. Most of the time, it may simply be a wafty of space dust. But once in a while, as our historical records have shown, we get visited by stuff that is far more ... impactive. And given that there have been some impacts of notable mention (Chicago suburb less than a decade ago), we should keep in mind that larger stuff still roams out there.
We also need to keep in mind that sacred days are everyday also because we get the opportunity to embrace and exhibit new ways for Life, my life, your life, his hers theirs, everyone's ... to be well, LIFE. Sometimes that means we need to remember we share this world. We are not compromising with anyone to live here. We *ARE* sharing already. We just have to come to grips with that detail. It is a fact. It is NOT a theory. It is not a hyperbole. It is a simple fact. We share the air. We share the water. We share the light. And we share the Darkness as well.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Changing the Tidal Course
It has been a while since my last post. Part of that, the biggest part, is probably because of my own distractions and my own absent laziness. A lot has happened since then however. I've traveled finally beyond the state I live in, physically and more. I have been reminded of the sheer Power that can be wielded by a few and how it becomes necessary to rend asunder that power on occasion. I know now what it means to do something for literally decades and then discover that it is possible to have been doing it wrong all that time.
The biggest facet of my life at this time period is of course my association with my fraternity and the fraternal family that comes with it. Like all families, there are trying periods of time. And, like all families there are periods of time that come with it when we are all reminded that we can still love our family even when we can no longer share a home together. This is that time period. To speak bluntly, my immediately fraternal family, my Lodge, has achieved a state of functioning that allows us to move in a vastly more fluid and dynamic form than it has possibly ever done. We have confirmed that we can do this and completely confirm to literally all the precepts and tenets of our Order. We can do so without even bending a rule, but hand-in-hand with the rules and find it possible to embrace not only those rules but the ruling bodies that enforce them.
What has been our sadness is that now we realize that no matter how open our hearts, minds and arms have been that some people simply feel that they can not possess their own identity while working with us. This has long ago created a fissure within this house, this Home. One that no matter how large we build a bridge from our shore we cannot reach theirs for they have chosen a course so apart from ours that it has caused so many to doubt the sincerity of so many people. People who have not even as yet become aware they are an integral part of this. Some people who have even gone so far as to deny their role(s) they will continue to play in this great living drama.
I am currently the "head of the lodge", the "Worshipful Master", this year. And in truth, it has been a fantastic year. Certainly, there have been challenges we have encountered this year. But we are stronger now than ever before. I have come to feel the Trust and Faith my brothers have invested into me. I now realize that I have so much more than I have to do to have them fully realize that Trust and Faith. Some of that I am now beginning to do again. I am re-energized. I have had my mind cleared. I have had my spirit bathed in the waters and come out again fulfilled. My body may remain ever-taxed, but it is ready to continue to bear the ever expanding burdens placed upon it.
What I now hope is that not only my immediate fraternal family is prepared for what is to come, but all the others whom will be impacted by not only their own actions but their own inaction. And indeed, their own denials. I can now deny nothing. I can now answer anything put before me. It may not be an answer that someone wants to hear. It may not be an answer they agree with. It may not even be able to answer all that they hope it might, but it will be an answer I can now give. I am Free to do so. I realize now I am the only person whom has ever hindered this Freedom. I can also now accept the fact that it is only I whom have done so.
So I ask, anyone whom has read this far, can you join me? Can you walk with me, if even for a while? Can we show one another how much Greater this Work is when more than One performs It?
The biggest facet of my life at this time period is of course my association with my fraternity and the fraternal family that comes with it. Like all families, there are trying periods of time. And, like all families there are periods of time that come with it when we are all reminded that we can still love our family even when we can no longer share a home together. This is that time period. To speak bluntly, my immediately fraternal family, my Lodge, has achieved a state of functioning that allows us to move in a vastly more fluid and dynamic form than it has possibly ever done. We have confirmed that we can do this and completely confirm to literally all the precepts and tenets of our Order. We can do so without even bending a rule, but hand-in-hand with the rules and find it possible to embrace not only those rules but the ruling bodies that enforce them.
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I am currently the "head of the lodge", the "Worshipful Master", this year. And in truth, it has been a fantastic year. Certainly, there have been challenges we have encountered this year. But we are stronger now than ever before. I have come to feel the Trust and Faith my brothers have invested into me. I now realize that I have so much more than I have to do to have them fully realize that Trust and Faith. Some of that I am now beginning to do again. I am re-energized. I have had my mind cleared. I have had my spirit bathed in the waters and come out again fulfilled. My body may remain ever-taxed, but it is ready to continue to bear the ever expanding burdens placed upon it.
What I now hope is that not only my immediate fraternal family is prepared for what is to come, but all the others whom will be impacted by not only their own actions but their own inaction. And indeed, their own denials. I can now deny nothing. I can now answer anything put before me. It may not be an answer that someone wants to hear. It may not be an answer they agree with. It may not even be able to answer all that they hope it might, but it will be an answer I can now give. I am Free to do so. I realize now I am the only person whom has ever hindered this Freedom. I can also now accept the fact that it is only I whom have done so.
So I ask, anyone whom has read this far, can you join me? Can you walk with me, if even for a while? Can we show one another how much Greater this Work is when more than One performs It?
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