What Am I Feeling As the World Opens to Death

Today I invite you to explore your feelings and relationship with death.  For many this is one of those more difficult topics, but as manifest beings, it is an unavoidable part of our corporeal life’s experience. We are reminded of the need to honor death in the celebrations of Samhain and Dia de los Muertos. And, we have been morbidly reminded of death as violence has surged within our world.

Each year at this time, I make a silent commitment to being more fully present and alive in my daily activities. This is, in large, my antidote to feeling the pall of death and an active reminder that this state of manifest, physical life will follow the natural order of things and return to the finer state of a non corporeal vessel. Food takes on a deeper level of enjoyment. Family is drawn closer and self-care takes priority over spreading myself too thin. Long walks surrounded by the beauty of Fall exercise my physical body and stimulate and open my senses in a broader way.

Standing on Solid Ground

I invite you to begin today’s work reading and re-affirming the statements offered yesterday. Your responses will organically align with the experiences that arise for you in reading through the explorations of Death….

I see with clarity what requires my breath of resolve

I feel with awakened senses the healing of my fears

I resolve to act upon the truths revealed and embrace the challenges of that active Will

I embody the wisdom that is being gifted to me and allow it to find its space of resonance

My spirit awakens to the gift of my Higher SELF in collaboration with my continued growth…

BY THE POWER OF FIVE I CLAIM THESE CHALLENGES AS MY FERTILE GROUND IN PREPARATION FOR CHANGE

The intention and call is to be fully present in all of life’s gifts even those that we often choose to numb ourselves to. Death and the subsequent feelings of loss becomes an all-consuming hunger that is fed by our sorrow and grief. It thirsts for our tears of remembrance and is filled only when we give the most treasured of memories served on our finest china.

Loss and a Deeper Opening

During this season of honoring the ancestors and the memories that bring us both pain and joy, loss knocks heavily now and if we are to move forward in the realization that life is a dear and treasured gift of corporeal form, we must answer the call…

You have become a
Familiar companion
Not one of my choosing
For you are never sought out.

Once before you knocked
On my door seeking refuge
Hungry and needing.

The days stretched on
As you were made guest
In my home but you
Faded into the background
As new life came bursting
In a sorrow-filled space.

You stood at a distance
Looking on and watching as
Life transpired and others
Took you in.

There was still the remnant
Of your having been my guest
A reminder that flooded in
Unannounced and overwhelming
In its need for release.

Your imprint tattooed upon
My heart that was revealed
In my gallery of remembered
Sound or word or thought.

You have come once again
Knocking at my door
But this time you beat
Upon it unrelenting in
Desire to seek entry.

And I knowing the ways of
Life and the promises made
In the gifting of that life I
Am bound to let you in.

I know that you will stay
For as long as is needed
To feed your hunger and
To leave your mark.

I will treat you as my
Most treasured guest
And offer to you the
Sweetest of my memories.

For you and I are now one
We share the secrets of the
Ways of life and the surrender

To death’s call and you will
Leave me for another
When the time is at hand.

Once again your room will
Remain readied awaiting the
Next return.

Your parting gift a profound
Reminder of the fragility and
Beauty of Life’s creations and
The admonition to celebrate that
Life and all who stand within it.

For loss is ever present and
When it knocks upon the peace
Of your home you will always
Let it in.

What Intention Will You Hold As Death Crowds Into Life?

Having read through these words, I invite you to hold as intention these gifts of grace to yourself in all of your parts…..

I allow myself the feelings of loss

I allow myself the space to grieve

I allow myself the gift of healing

I allow myself the intelligence of a heart that knows the cycles of ending always flow into those of new beginnings

I allow myself to FEEL

Tomorrow’s Post: Anchoring in the Spirit of Our Choosing