Trust

"Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing
There is a field.
I’ll meet you there.” - Rumi

I am getting ready for Winter Feast for the Soul "Starting on January 15, 2014 people around the world will join their intentions for personal and planetary peace." "The Winter Feast for the Soul event takes place every January 15th - February 23rd, and unites people in their commitment to a 40 day practice of stillness." It is for people of all faiths the practice, prayers, way you participate is your own.

I am excited because this will be the first time I will be participating in the Open Ceremony which is tomorrow night. And it is the first time, after decades, that I already am meditating daily.

I went to download their free ebook which I have yet to read after several years of participating. I was again excited to find one of my very favorite quotes for many years, the one above by Rumi. Chuckling about how long I have loved this quote, shows me how long I have been struggling with trying to be open-hearted, loving, being for instead of against.

Philosophically, been there for a long, long time. Mentally, emotionally - still a daily, sometimes minute to challenge - Dang people not living my beliefs or behaving according to my standards of the moment or the standards of some book. Which brings me to the memory of teaching one of my healing classes with a training manual I wrote myself.
I received some new information that I had not had time to rewrite for for my manual. When I presented the updated teaching, I had one student who just kept repeating but the manual says. I am still not sure it ever translated in her brain, that I the actual author of those words, that I made a correction myself to my own words. That was a very strange yet telling experience. It still amazes me, she was determined to cling to what was written down. Now, I might just say Wow.

Being open, letting go, being willing to change, having faith, knowing I don't know - still growing and learning how to trust.

I am remembering another quote I loved, resonated deeply, in a book by Lynn Andrews. I don't have it exact, but this is close "Above the path of good and evil lies the truth."