BLESS THE MESSENGERS

(C) 2009 Howard McQueen

As we come to realize that life itself conspires
to show us again and again what we've avoided and tried to retire,
we begin to feel that we are not really helpless and drowning,
we are neither victims or victors.
These are but role-based sentences
we have chosen to believe in and empower.

And, meanwhile, life tirelessly sends us an endless
array of messengers
reminding us, through reflection
that which we are most uncomfortable with and have cast out.

How do we know we have received a messenger?
When we are internally provoked enough to choose reactive projection.
This "spills the beans" we have hidden from in our past.

I say "lets make a hearty soup with all these spilled beans."

Why not a community pot, which we can all take turns stirring.
We can each add some of our uniquely flavored spice.
We can make many pots, each with its own unique blend of content.
Some vegan, some not.
All deeply seasoned with fellowship and these great gifts of integrating
Unity and Reunion
and living in peace.

May we all see through the interruption and disconnection that arrives with our intentional messengers.
These open the divine pathways back to suppressed discomfort and pain.
and may we see in our reflections and projections,
our proclivity to suppress our emotional distress, and not continue to cap it off with self deception.

Our journey is to remain inquisitive and honor our personally held discomforts.
I celebrate our messengers for holding up the mirror and encouraging us to find our truths
and set ourselves free.

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When I feel into sensing that life has been quietly and tireless provoking me to see my short-circuited energies, I welcome this deep sense of gratitude and release, more deeply, the sense that life ever tried to attack me. I am an unlimited beingness, indoctrinated into this conditioned, multi-dimensional experience. When I relax and do not take any of this experience personally, I feel the energetic tides of life ebb and flow and there is this welling-up of connection ... to everything - So much gratitude and love is felt and ripened for expression - HM