Day 39: Embodied Mystics

These past demanding weeks have had some perfectly beautiful moments. Moments that feel like sunshine after the rain. Like the crisp breath of air when you step out from a congested room. When you suddenly hear birdsong over the buzzsaw of traffic. I’ve known a lot of stagnation and fretful buzzing these past days. And I have witnessed surprise and hidden beauty in the ordinary.

Like yesterday.

The mystic in me salutes fresh moments like this with joy.

Uli and I had been struggling to put words to the feelings of living in the extremes of our present-day lives. We are holding the tug and excitement of a global future unfolding that gleams with possibilities, while still stuck in the morass of immobility. We talked for a long time about living in the wholeness of the liminal space between what feels like opposites, but can be often described as yin/yang, or masculine/feminine energies. Polarities that throb in expectation as they wait for creative resolution. Yet we sense the mandorla or almond shape, or venn diagram of our overlapping realities pulse with promise.

Suddenly we looked down and saw our naked feet.

Touching.

Still linked in love after 52 years.

Both of us cried – tears of joy and gratitude and assurance. We are not the selfie generation, but this deserved recording! The two of us have journeyed on intersecting paths, like a DNA spiral that winds together and apart; a structural presence of partnership that is the bedrock of our connection in this world. (aha – bedrock - what a lovely word arises in my subconscious to describe love!)

The Center for Action and Contemplation Daily Meditations recently expressed the essential nature of these moments of mystical spirituality:

“When we make a pact with ourselves to show up for reality just as it is, reality rewards us by revealing its hidden holiness, its ordinary wonder, its fruitful shadows and radiant wounds. Not always, not everywhere, but more and more often and in the places we least expect.This is what it means to be a mystic. To show up for what is, to be present to all that is, to take refuge in the boundless intimacy of exactly what is.”

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What ‘ordinary wonder’ waits to captivate your heart today?

What seemingly impossible opposites call for you, or in you?

Possibly to stand still and wait – and maybe invite another to stand with you in the beautiful agony of not-knowing-yet.

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