When the Path is Blocked by Mark Nepo

Mark Nepo is absolutely brilliant!! The Divine's sense of timing is absolutely astounding!! The following is teh reading that showed up for me as I taught my classes today and it was quite powerful...

"We are each a mountain for the other to climb, and often our path to love is interrupted by a mishap or a problem or something unexpected that needs attending. We tend to call these unexpected things in life “obstacles.”

Often the thing in the way comes from another person; a stubbornness falls like a tree blocking where we want to go, or a sadness comes like a flash flood to muddy the road between us, or just as we go to rest in the clearing we have prepared, we are bitten by something hiding in the undergrowth. Thus, in daily ways, we have this constant choice: to see each other as the stubborn, muddy, biting thing that blocks our way, or to back up and take in the whole person as we would a mountain in its entirety, dizzy when looking up into its majesty.

When we are blocked in our closeness with one another, we have this constant opportunity: to raise our eyes and behold each other completely, then to kneel and lift the fallen tree, or cross the flooded path, or pluck and toss the biting thing. We have the chance to keep climbing, so we might cup the water that runs from each other, so we might quench our thirst as from a mountain stream, knowing that love like water comes softly through the hardest places."

BEHOLD EACH OTHER COMPLETELY...envisioning the power, the sacredness of the word BEHOLD allows me to stop and appreciate the sacredness and beauty that exists within all; it's just sometimes in the stubborness or sadness that we lose our way of "being" authentic in this world. We forget who we are.BEHOLD...when this word is used, it conjures up an image of something or someone so spectacular that it takes one's breath away. How would the world be if we were able to use this word more often?

Then having the faith of knowing that love like water comes softly through the hardest places. What a blessed and magnificent image. Can we believe that we are Truly and Divinely Loved, no matter what...in our hidden and open places...we are sooo LOVED. That is the miracle of living...the softening that occurs in one's life when you invite love in.:)

Peace and love,

Corinne