However, I
can say that the New Year started in classic “Liz” style. On New Year’s Eve, while baking, I half heard
a reference on public radio to the fact that birders pay special attention to
the first bird they see on January 1.
So, Friday morning, wouldn’t you know the first bird I saw was a hawk,
“Messenger,” according to my trusty Medicine Cards book (by Jamie Sams
and David Carson.) The first new book to grab my attention in the new
year has been No Ordinary Time: The Rise of Spiritual Intelligence and
Evolutionary Creativity – A Book of Hours for a Prophetic Age. Yeah, right down my alley. The author, Jan Phillips, is a former Roman
Catholic who uses the monastic hours as a vessel to present an expanded
spiritual vision. Sort of what New Age
monks or nuns might pray over the course of a week. The timeliness of this was quite
extraordinary -- or not, if you believe that what you put out there will come
back to you. I have been continuing to
perseverate over the seeming “disconnect” between my passion for my musical and
spiritual tradition (Church of
England) and my spiritual reality. I keep trying to believe that there is a
link, and it is reassuring to find someone who has found her own bridge.
I haven’t
gotten far into the book. However, this short passage seems apt for the
beginning of the year: “This is the beginning of a new day. Each day you awaken to a canvas of twenty-four
hours, ready for what only YOU can create.
What will you make of this gift you’ve been given? What do you need to fulfill your mission?”
(page 10.)
This may be
enough for today. There’s a year’s worth of discernment just in those two
questions. May we all find answers to
them! The third of my meaningful “firsts” on Friday was pulling a card from
my Sacred Geometry deck (by Janosh, published by Sounds True.) These
cards present fascinating computer generated crop-circle-type images with a
single word/meaning. The card that
“picked me” for the year was “communication.”
That means, you can be fairly certain that I’ll weigh in on all this
deep stuff every few days as 2016 progresses.
Thanks for being here with me!
