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Acornology & Change

4/3/2021

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The acorn is a seed with a nature and destiny to become…an oak tree.  It is our nature and  destiny to become…

We are not broken but blessed.
 

When we are in grief…from the little losses of a normal human life…or the big losses of death…we must go to ground.
 
Grief cracks us open.  Pandemics crack us open. Death cracks us open. Go to ground..
 
Go to the ground of our being, and a world of growth and possibility opens up, (ahem)... after a time.
 

Can Grief be Medicine?

It was for me...and I handled it badly. 
I accumulated so many little griefs that I was numb by the time the big hitters came by.  I wrote about it...until I was empty. It worked for me. (and I created a book with gifts for you...should you be wise enough or courageously curious enough to want to hear another's story: Her is a link)

Grief offers up for your review that which changes...contrasting with that which DOES NOT CHANGE.  This is inner work.  It is a spiritual journey.

I did not know how to process feelings as they came (feel them ...and let them go) much less allow my support system in.  I thought I was along. I was not.

I am not and neither are you.

But by far the most important thing is to have faith in a friendly universe...and that change is not a bad thing.

A Sound Meditation about Change:

A story about change by Jacob Needleman


Once upon a time, in land not so far away, there was a kingdom of acorns, nestled at the foot of a grand old oak tree.  Since the citizens of this kingdom were modern, fully Westernized acorns, they went about their life with a purposeful energy; and since they were midlife baby boomer acorns, they engaged in a lot of self-help courses. There were seminars called “Getting all you; can out of your shell” and Who would you be without your nutty story?” There were woundedness and recovery groups for acorns who had been bruised in their fall from the tree.  There were spas for oiling and polishing those shells and various acornopathic therapies to enhance longevity and well-being.
 
One day in the midst of this kingdome there suddenly appeared a knotty little stranger, apparently dropped out of ht eblue by a passing bird.  He was capless and dirty, making an immediate negative impression on his fellow acorns.  And to make things worse, crouched beneath the mighty oak tree, he stammered out a wild tale.  Pointing up at the tree, her said “We…are…that!”
 
Delusional thinking, obviously, the other acorns concluded, but htye continued ot engage him in conversation: “ So tell us, how do we…become tht tree?”  “Well, said he, pointing downward, “it has something to do with going into the ground…and cracking open te shell.”Insane tht responded.  “Totally morbid! Why then we wouldn’t be acorns anymore.”
 
We are that.

Acornology – by Jacob Needleman, retold by Cynthia Bourgeault in the Wisdom Way

A Hafiz Poem ...about the biggest &
most mysterious change

I used to know my name.
Now I don’t. I think a river understands me. 
For what does it call itself in that blessed
moment when it starts emptying into the
Infinite Luminous Sea,

and opening every aspect of self wider than
it ever thought possible?

Each drop of itself now running to embrace
and unite with a million new friends.

And you were there, in OUR union with All.  Hafiz


Attributions & Inspirations

1. I am inspired.  By Rev. Mark Fuss. Unity booklet Courage to Imagine.
2. Acornology – by Jacob Needleman, retold by Cynthia Bourgeault in the Wisdom Way
3. A Year with Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky.
4. Breathing Underwater - Richard Rohr



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