Sue Moon’s Blog

I’m smiling today because I get another opportunity to see myself.  For now, I am happy about that and not running away from it.  This day sees me happy to understand how I get off center.

There will always be something to pull you away from who you are and what you believe in – always.  These are tests on our path and I am glad they are there.  Keeps my ego in check-keeps me hunting for healthy ego aligned with soul.  Keeps my life interesting.

Lately, as some of you may have noticed, I’ve gone a little overboard with fear of our political infra-structure and the loss of personal freedom.  All the rumors and facts surrounding 9/11, and more.  It can become an all-consuming righteous indignation laced with fear.

Thank Goddess for friends who love us and offer, sometimes, our own words back to us.  One of mine reminded me of this Carolyn Brent quote:

Although it is often challenging to remember or even grasp, every single person or situation we encounter provides us with a reflection or mirror of how well we are relating to our self and to our life. If we truly understood this, then wars would end because we would know that the war outside of us is reflecting the war inside us. This means that until we know peace within ourselves we won’t experience peace outside ourselves.

Healthy relationship with our selves occurs when we can genuinely accept what IS and stop trying to force others to be the way we think they should be. If we have felt wronged or hurt by another the solution or resolution is not outside of us. This is tricky because it is so much easier to see what is outside as the cause or what is to blame. Whenever we are in the space of blame or feeling wronged we have an opportunity to heal something within ourselves through radical compassion and forgiveness beginning with first ourselves and then the situation and all those involved. This shifts our experience bringing the ability and responsibility to change our experience back to our willingness to forgive ourselves and each other – trusting that by doing so we will then attract experiences into our life that reflect the healing power of self-forgiveness, self-love, forgiveness of others and the situations that have wounded or harmed us or those we love.

And another friend offered this:

Eventually one has to go to their center and ask, “OK what do I personally do about this. What can I do short of becoming a liberal, radical activist, polarized to the other, extreme?”

The truth is that the world is at war. Not so much country to country, but the human species is at war with itself. Have’s with the have not’s. Christian/Muslim, etc. etc. all the way in every direction. Complete chaos.

I have done many things, I’ve been politically active to a minor degree, praying a lot, worrying too much-signing petitions, writing and calling my congressmen.

In the end, we go to our centers and take a stand. We go there to see if we stand for anything and if so what? It gets tricky when we as spiritual warriors examine what’s going on then see where we fit into the puzzle. Don’t you think?

When the Nazi’s took over, there was a lot of 20/20 hindsight, but in the end people made choices as to what to do when it came to their town. We get to do that in the end just like in the beginning. It’s all choices.  Peace

Today is a good day, I’m back on my center………..who knows what tomorrow will bring, that isn’t in my moment right now.

Peace and the blessing of how short a journey this is, how much we learn and grow each time…..how great the discovery is that it is really all about remaining in our center and being true to ourselves.  Chunking it down so it is doable!