Day 27: Silence
- Jay Berghuis
- Sep 23, 2024
- 2 min read
"One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times.
The light of the soul throws sparks, sends up flares, builds signal fires…causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these, to be fierce and to show mercy toward others - both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.”
The lodge is totally quiet. I am alone. In my wheelchair.
Mesmerized by the silence, the wonder and awe of 23 souls who have disappeared into the wilderness with their packs and safety gear. “Immense bravery and greatest necessity” – yes, indeed!
The path in the forest beckons...
The glacier-chilled water calls bodies to wade and be cleansed.
The bridge calls to cross over and “leave behind everything that defines and confines us.”
The moose remind us that this is their home.
The eyes of the aspen see with clarity.
Messages from my bones:
“Wait here and find the Love that attends me.”
“Feel the presence of so many hands pushing my chair over the threshold.”
“Allow my body to hold the memories that wish to be spoken and silence those in utero that are not ready to emerge.”
“Though I don’t have wings and though I cannot fly, with my whole body, I felt it, the longing to be so aware of all that is around me that I, too, might move through the world like a starling, veering and rising, turning and dropping, whirling and doubling back in an elegant response to what my neighbors are doing…”
In your personal struggles to remain “fully lit” in the world, where do you find silence?
What/Who lights up your soul like nothing else can?
How might you be more like a bird and be so aware that you creatively fly in your own “elegant response” to their presence?
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