Honouring the Miraculous and the Mundane

In the syndicated television program “Charmed”, one of the main characters, named Leo was described as a “white-lighter”. I think many of us here on the planet today might recognize our Selves and many others, as modern day white-lighters Who are we? We are You: sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, neighbours, friends, average men and women found in every walk of life, in every region of the globe White-lighters, are people who choose to see the “light” even in the darkest of places, who choose to look for meaning, for beauty and even the miraculous in the most ordinary mundane and even the most painful of places and spaces.

Beautiful Pain. Painful Beauty. That’s what happens when we take away the judgment. It is what it is, whatever it is. Anxiety softens, pain releases. We don’t hurt because we have done something wrong. We don’t hurt because we are “bad” people. We hurt because we are human. Lightworkers, choose to to believe as Leonard Cohen said best: that it’s through the cracks, that the light gets through. Lightworkers choose to be courageous enough to allow the vulnerability that ultimately invites Grace into those tiniest, deepest, most estranged places in our hearts and souls and bodies and minds.

Movies like “What the Bleep” and “The Secret” and “The Huckleberry’s” are cinematic attempts to invite more people to Wake Up to the miraculous in the mundane. Poets like David Whyte and Mary Oliver do the same. We are invited in every moment of everyday to wake up, to the power of our thoughts and feelings and how those same thoughts and feelings impact our experience of everyday reality. The good news is of course, that although we can’t always change people or situations, we can change our relationship to and our attachment to current thoughts and feelings about that person or situation and that is where the “magic”, an invitation to the miraculous begins!

It is seeing the world less as a mechanistic prison that traps us in sets of circumstances, be they health, finances, or relationship for example and more as an energetic dynamic that we can participate in. The irony here. it seems is that we all come into the world with an energetic “blob” we might call, abandonment, or betrayal, or jealousy for example that predisposes us to habitual patterns. Barbara Ann Brennon, former NASA physicist describes this bad habit, or negative energy blob as a “frozen time conglomerate” in her hugely popular “Hands of Light”, textbook on healing the human energy field.

Opening up to the magic, to the energetics, the Light in our lives is opening to an opportunity to experience our bodies, relationships, and even our finances as an expression of our deepest sacred imaginings and the lack thereof. And no one is judging our creation except we ourselves. Who is to say what I need? What if my exhaustion or my illness is offering me opportunities to open to my deepest sense of possibility. What if I have been so caught up in the mundane experience of my reality I have had no catalyst, to invite me deeper into the mystery. I can rail against the illness, the grief and the fear. I can also ask it to open me to my heartsongs that would have otherwise gone unheard, and unsung.

We can all choose to be “white-lighters” in our own lives. Magic and Miracles are seeing possibilities in places that we didn’t’ perceive possible before. Once the “earth was flat”. Architecture, politics, religion, reflected this two dimensional “truth”. Then came Columbus. He didn’t fall off the edge of the planet. There was a paradigm shift. We are living this paradigm shift again. The big secret is that no matter what happens to us we always have choices about how to think about it. And the good news is, we can choose again, and again and again and continuously open to ordinary miracles that await. Like the artists, and poets, and healers who have come before us we can choose to look beyond the illusion of “absolutes” and delve deeper into the texture and purpose and colour and meaning of our own mundane miraculous lives!

Will you join me?

Bright Blessings !