21 Dec Blessing Your Essential Self [Kimberly Schneider]
[I met Kimberly years ago and was always drawn to her connection to the Divine and her ability to put this connection into words. She recently wrote a poem which she shared. I wanted to pass on her message of hope. She has a new book which you might be interested in Manifesting Miracles.]
A shift is happening, one that holds the potential for possibilities we’ve barely imagined.
Of course, extraordinary changes, in addition to being exciting, can also be anxiety-provoking. Because your old strategies and habitual patterns don’t work the way they used to. The things you thought were true may not appear to be true anymore. And everything seems uncertain.
What can you do when the person you’ve been isn’t up for navigating through a new reality?
You hold a space for conceiving someone new, someone who has the wisdom you need to respond to situations you can’t anticipate.
You surrender to uncertainty.
You trust that by releasing what you’ve known, you’ll be given the grace you require.
I wrote a poem about that this month, and I offer it to you (below) in hopes that it inspires you during these extraordinary times, to hold a space for the person you came here to be.
The Wisdom of Mary ~ Kimberly Schneider
Say yes to
the Beckoner: that Terrible
Angel whose summons seems
to ask that you turn your back
on everything proper
and sensical
and right.
Convention can take you only where
humanity has been before,
and what good is that
to a Cosmos crying out
for something utterly
new?
Conceiving divinity calls for
nothing less
than absolute
surrender to
uncertainty.
After all, what deity
ever sprung from known
or predictable
soil?
Be quiet now.
Rest in the waiting.
Let infinity spark
and stir
and stretch into
your vast
unknown.
Be willing to be the one
who fits in nowhere
who is unwelcome
whose treasure is unrecognized
by everyone but your Self.
And when the time comes
(however untimely)
let go
again
of everything you’ve known.
Be a portal to the possible:
a vessel through which
new realities
may
be born.
©2012, Kimberly V. Schneider