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Keeping Our Center ~ Day 29

Here in Wisconsin the “day after” Easter has dawned cold, cloudy and exceedingly windy, and as I write this I’m watching our darn dog eating something I’m sure she shouldn’t be in the back yard. It’s probably what is left of the baby bunny’s nest… that’s the bunny she tried to eat last night. Back to business as usual. Sigh.

Is it just me or is there something about the “days after” that makes us sort of melancholy and reluctant to go back to life as usual? I think about the day after a wedding, or Christmas, or a birthday party, or any fun gathering or celebration. But, as odd as it sounds, I’d even include death bed vigils and funerals of close loved ones in this category.

Perhaps it is because on those occasions we participate in a few moments or hours of sacred space, or liminal space, an in-between place where the ordinary and Something More seem much closer than usual.

Liminal space has the effect that a potter has on clay. We are molded and shaped, albeit slowly, and we’re apt to go into the world and smash whatever shaping was done. Liminal space gives us new perspective, and reminds us of what is truly important in life. Liminal space reminds us that we are not alone, that we are loved, that the core of our beings is light and love… and so is everyone else. We’ve just forgotten.

The key to the liminal experience is that it helps create us anew. I know it is slow. I know we don’t necessarily trust it once we’re back in the “real” world… it feels too far away and maybe too magical to be true. But what if it is more real and more true than what we perceive to be truth in our everyday lives?

My hope today is that we will allow the liminal space that was Easter to change us. The concept of death and resurrection that Easter challenges us with is about moving interiorly beyond the soul-draining struggles of life, and into what truly brings life – the one-on-one spiritual connection with the Divine.

Be changed. Be made more whole. Be more loving, forgiving and compassionate (to yourself as well as others). Be more joyful, hopeful and peaceful. Be who you were created to be… the beautiful, unique you.

Love & Light!

Kaye