Staying in the stillness as long as needed
Your soul is like a little patch of fertile ground. If left alone and untended for long, it becomes threatened with wild thistles, sharp and bitter.
Sometimes while doing our work in the world, things arise that whisper to us – this, here. Maybe it shows up as a fleeting lick of pleasure - a beguiling scent of dewy lilac or cotton sheets in sunlight. Or perhaps it arrives in an even quicker flash of annoyance – a snap of a twig, brief yet startling. The signs are subtle.
Instead of our habitual response of keeping going – of ploughing ahead with what we’ve planned - or of staying busy. We have a choice to pause, to look at the things that may at one point have given us energy or may still seem vital. We can make time to listen, to ask:
What is being called forth from me?
Despite our desperate desire to know, sometimes the answer isn’t immediately clear; and in what I’ve found for myself and my clients - it often isn’t. If that’s the case, you need to stay in the stillness. Adopt a posture of humility and ask ‘what?’
And then ask for help.
Help me hear. Help me know. Help me remain open to what wants to be heard.
It takes courage to do this – when everything around you is urging you forward. Pushing you to create. To do. Especially since the doing can feel so satisfying. The rush of accomplishment can be thrilling, intoxicating. It’s easy to keep doing and avoid the stillness.
But what if, in all the doing, you can’t hear the call of your soul?
What if you miss the golden flits of something new waiting in the wings for you to hear it? Something yearning for you to open yourself and your heart?
Stay in the stillness and wait for the unmistakable call of Love.