(sigh) It's Friday again and I'm already experiencing computer withdrawal. Not having a computer to blog with on the weekends is much harder for me than I ever would have imagined!
I revisited my del.icio.us account this week. Such a cool thing, del.icio.us. Do people pronounce it "delicious?" Or do they pronounce it "del-iss-ee-oh-us" like I do in my head? I think, perhaps I was Italian or French or some other Romantic language-speaking person in another life. I always want to add syllables to a word.
I found an exceedingly cool site with mandalas. It's here. I am going ga-ga over the gorgeous, "hand-crafted" mandalas there. They look like they're all done in pen-and-ink. I WANT them! (chuckling) So much for my "letting-go," Buddhist leanings!
That site led me to another site about labyrinths. I have the toughest time spelling l-a-b-y-r-i-n-t-h. My fingers type very slowly as I sound out the word. I read a little about the author of the site. Here's something she had in a side column:
There are many people I have come to know and love on this spiritual journey... you all know who you are and I thank each and every one of you for the guidance and shared experiences.I like the references to spiritual journey, acknowledging important people in her life/journey and expressing gratitude. Yup, that all works for me.
And my deep gratitude
to the Spiritual realm...
guiding me along this most interesting journey.
-- Vicki Kaiser
Here's another little blurb Vicki writes about -- she opens with a reference to spiders as weavers. I have long been fascinated with the idea of webs as a metaphor for the connections we all "weave" as we create -- many times, completely unaware -- the "tapestries" of our lives. It's a rich, deep imagery that holds a lot of meaning for me. Here's part of Vicki's thoughts:
Spiders are weavers... their webs can become quite large and intricate. And so very beautiful, especially when they capture the morning dew...All of which I tend to agree with ... and reinforces the notion that I need to redouble my efforts and commitment to regular meditation.
The human part of us sometimes has difficulty quieting the chatter in our mind long enough to hear what our soul is trying to tell us. Meditation is the art of paying attention, of listening to your heart and learning to be present in the moment. Sometimes without being fully conscious of it, we withdraw from the present and live in the past or the future.
We stay in the past by holding on to learned negative behaviors and patterns that no longer serve us. Perhaps we are angry or unhappy about our current circumstances, not realizing that we can untangle ourselves from this web of our own making. Our soul continually creates circumstances so we can learn life lessons, whatever they may be. Until we learn these lessons, we stay caught in the web with only the circumstances changing... more than likely looming larger as the need to learn the lessons grows. Meditation brings us into the present and teaches us to accept the past and let go of these old behaviors.
Some of us are fearful of the future. The human part of us doubts whether we are capable of making correct decisions on our life path. By releasing this tangled web we learn to be in the “now,” transforming these fears and learning to trust our intuition or soul voice. Faith is born of this trust and our lives become more simplified. Meditation can help us live more fully, more effectively, and more peacefully.
Get right on that, will you, Mary??
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