Experiencing Change

The philosopher Edmund Burke once wrote of combining “a disposition to preserve with an ability to reform.”  Perhaps this is what this juxtaposition signifies.  We work to preserve freedom and opportunity while we change the circumstances around us.  We preserve the sacred as the facts around us change. We experience the changing nature of all things, while sitting quietly in the knowing of the changeless.

T.S. Eliot wrote of this in his poem Burnt Norton:

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

I think Eliot picked up on the changelessness of an ever-changing Universe.That which is at the still point, that quiet place within, provides the focus for the movement, the dance, that is the ever-evolving world in which we live.

The temporal is the eternal and the eternal is the temporal.

Ans so we simply sit in the stillness and contemplate the hustle and bustle, which will only increase as the Christmas season draws near.  And we know that in that stillness, we are guided to the best way to preserve our opportunities and choices and the changes that will most help us thrive.

There is only One Life, the Life of God, in, as, through, throughout, and all around everyone and everything.  That Perfect Life is expressing as me, as you, as everyone right now.

All that that Life is, is expressing as me right now.  Its words are my words.  It can be no other way.

I know that in the stillness, in that steady, secure, preserved space, that Life as each of us is fully expressing, showing the way, showing the next movement, showing where in the hustle and bustle the Truth is shining forth, what passionate, life-affirming changes we can make to express our purpose most fully, the best form that this can take, and the way to get there.  It opens our hearts and lights our way.

I am grateful for guidance, for the ever-moving, ever- dancing activity of Life, for the stillness and the safety that It is and that It expresses.And so, I simply let it go, dancing into the ever-greater with the knowledge that whatever it is, it is done in the stillness and it is right now showing up in our lives.And SO it IS.