Allowing the Mystery to Unfold: An Offering.

So much of living life is learning to fall in love with Mystery.

With the sweet unknown. With that which is at our very center, always listening, aching to be noticed, sought after, drunk from. Familiarizing the unfamiliar.

Falling in love with all that we have yet to discover, all we have yet to experience.

Falling in love with the rejections, the victories, the displacements, the confusion, the cherished moments, the joy, the grief, the losing of self, the regaining of self, and the forging of new selves as we come to higher, deeper, more sacred spaces within our own skin.

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So much of living life is Inquiry.

Asking What If? What is possible? Why not? What does this mean? What’s beneath that? And that? And that?

And that?

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So much of living life is finding Gratitude in the stillness… and the mayhem.

Lending our hearts to cupped hands, bowing our heads in devotion, striving to remember that while heartache and loss and devastation are True, so too is beauty and reflection and laughter and Spirit.

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So now I offer…

As Mystery curls its finger towards us, beckoning us closer… What do you hear? What is being asked of you? What is being granted to you? How can you tune your soul to better hear the call of the Wild, both within and without?

As Inquiry unfurls its soft-dewed petals, granting us new depths, new understandings, new healing, what curiosities awaken within you? What do you seek, from the root of your soul? What new depths are calling you down, and down, and down?

And as we gather with our families, both chosen and original, what surprises does Gratitude have for you today, tomorrow? Where does it show up? How does it show up? What do you notice in your body when you search for things to be grateful for? What do you notice in the world, when you find them?