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8 Sep 2002 @ 13:17, by Craig Lang
For better or for worse, "The Changes" are upon us. I hear this everywhere - from people in all walks of life.
In my own life people are arriving and people are leaving. In the last few days, I've learned that several dear friends are moving on to other places and opportunities. I've also found new avenues for service and growth. The winds of change are blowing. And for better or for worse we are changing with them.
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This is a time of departure and change. In the last few days and weeks, I have learned that several people whom I've come to know and love are leaving their present station in life for something new and wonderful. And oftentimes I've been part of the life they are leaving behind. Although I feel a sense of joy at their new beginnings, I also feel a sense of loss at their departure. Whatever their present life situations may have been, now, for them, it's time for change.
Other times I'm just a bystander to change. This morning in church, I was struck by the number of prayer requests put in by people on behalf of others. One was for someone who's marriage was breaking up. Many were for people who were ill. Several were about financial or personal crises, or for friends who lost loved ones in 9/11, and the list goes on...
Yet this is also a time of arrival. The last week or so has been an unbroken chain of synchronicity after synchronicity. Just when I ask myself where I might find the next step - an on-line resource, a group, a new contact, anything... it arrives. Synchronicity finds us. New doors open.
All around me there are new opportunities, new beginnings and deepening relationships. For myself and for others there are new avenues for service - healing, working, learning and teaching. And through all of it, there is the sense that God is always trying to say something to us. With a good ear and an open mind, perhaps we can understand just a little better that tiny divine voice.
But foremost, this is a time of transformation. For better or for worse "The Changes" are upon us. I hear this from people everywhere, in all walks of life. It comes from hypnotherapy clients deep in trance. It comes from friends in casual conversation. And at my day job in the engineering world, it might even come from an engineer in a nearby cubicle.
To purloin the title of an SF novel I read several years ago, I believe that we have entered "The Forge of God". Will there be renewal, crisis or opportunity (or some of each, for really, aren't they facets of the same thing)? Will there be trails, or trials? That's not for me to know. Each of us will know in due time - each in our own way.
I have always been taught that God gives us what we need, when we need it - though frequently in ways we least expect. All we can do is trust in God to guide us from one breadcrumb to the next. Another step on the trail that leads we know not where...
Namaste,
-Craig
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6 comments
12 Sep 2002 @ 11:15 by magical_melody : Good and true message my friend!
Yes Craig, I will miss you. Max and I will definitely keep in touch with you throughout the journey. Craig, I believe that we will meet up at another time and space in the future where more of the mystery unfolds, and our mutual future projects birth more into form. The birth is definitely moving into its more active phase now and requires many of us to move into place!
12 Sep 2002 @ 11:54 by tdeane : And the breadcrumbs
are the moments in each and every day, whether it be to smile at a stranger or extend a hand to one in need, eh Craig? Have been noticing all that you speak of, and share in the joy. I gather from Alana's comment that you are leaving, and however briefly your spirit brightened these pages, I will miss you. Thank you for smiling at this stranger. Love ~ Tricia
12 Sep 2002 @ 13:03 by shawa : I appreciate your words...
Thanks for them, and for your smile. --,--ยด---@
12 Sep 2002 @ 13:56 by kay : This is a keeper.
I printed it out. I will share it with my meditation group. thanks.
12 Sep 2002 @ 18:06 by scotty : heavens !
I do hope you're only leaving ncn and not the - well - here - the planet - life !
12 Sep 2002 @ 21:41 by craiglang : I'm not going anywhere... 8^)
Reports of my departure are greatly exagerated... 8^)
It's not me that's going anywhere, though Alana's reply kinda made it sound like I was hitting the road. It's some other folks out there that I have come to know and love that are moving on. I'm still where I have been for quite some time - and for better or for worse, I plan to be in this same station in life for a long time further...8^)
Thanx for the concern though. The depth of heart on this site is truly beautifil to behold.
Sincerely,
-CL
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