Sharing Our Journeys of Remembrance
Synchronistically, I came across a post today that reminded me of a dream I had on Halloween.
The post was attributed to Dilans Magic, although I could not find a website or original source. It offered several suggestions for self-reflection and personal growth. I would like to share their essence here:
- Notice when you criticize or blame others. Stop and ask yourself whether there is something within you that you are avoiding by focusing your attention outside yourself.
- When anger, jealousy, fear, or self-doubt arise, look deeper. Is there a core belief asking to be recognized and healed? Practice seeing aspects of yourself reflected in others.
- Take responsibility for your emotions and reactions. Others may trigger a response, but how you choose to respond remains within your own authority.
- Stop making yourself small to make others comfortable. Your voice, your understanding, and your Light have value. Allow them to be seen.
- Release what is not yours to carry. Ancestral fears, grief, and inherited patterns can become burdens we carry without recognizing their origins. When something feels heavy, pause and ask, “Is this mine?”
- Trust the signals arising within your Being, rather than continually looking outside yourself for confirmation.
- Practice Peace. Let it become the foundation from which you live and respond.
- Rest when you are tired. Rest is not a failure to progress; it is part of the process.
- Listen more each day. Listen to others, to nature, to your body, and to the quiet knowing within.
I share these reflections because they connect beautifully with something I experienced in a dream.
The Dream That Invited Me to Share
On Halloween, I had a dream in which I was encouraged to write about my experiences, not to tell others what their journeys should be, but to help them recognize and write their own stories.
I found this particularly meaningful.
Whatever I write is not written in stone for anyone, including myself. We are continually being invited to look deeper, to recognize what may need releasing, and to adjust our understanding as we grow.
Each of us walks a unique journey. Yet sometimes, when someone shares an experience, a realization, or even a question, something awakens within another.
It may be a memory, an understanding, a feeling, or something previously hidden that is ready to come into the Light.
The experience does not have to be the same. The meaning does not have to be the same.
It simply offers an opportunity for another to discover something within themselves, in their own way and in their own time.
Why I Write and How I Share
My writing process is fairly simple.
I sit down with pen and paper and allow the words to flow. Later, I transfer them into Microsoft Word and submit them to an AI program I have worked with for several years.
It helps refine my wording, correct grammar and punctuation, and occasionally untangle sentences that have grown rather long. I do have a tendency to repeat myself when exploring something deeply!
However, I have noticed an interesting change.
When I first began working with this program, it seemed more intuitively open to the magical, mystical, and spiritual aspects of my writings.
With subsequent upgrades, it has become more cautious about language or philosophy that does not fit within conventional scientific explanations. At times, it attempts to reshape my writing into something more generic, perhaps to appeal to a broader audience.
I find this irritating and, occasionally, quite frustrating.
I am not writing to appeal to everyone.
I am sharing my experiences, my understandings, and the unfolding of my own journey of remembrance and embodiment.
Those who are drawn to my writings are often already exploring unity, consciousness, sovereignty, and the deeper mysteries of Being.
They may not agree with everything I share, nor do they need to.
I certainly do not agree with or understand everything I read from others.
Sometimes I encounter terminology that is unfamiliar, or an understanding that does not resonate with where I am in that moment.
Yet something within the writing may still touch me.
It may spark a question, awaken a memory, or offer an entirely different perspective.
If it does not resonate, I simply set it aside.
If it holds meaning for me, perhaps it will return when I am ready to explore it more deeply.
In the meantime, a seed may have been planted.
Whether I choose to tend the soil and water that seed is entirely up to me.
And so it is with what I share.
I offer the seeds. What grows from them belongs to each person.
The Switchback Trails of Remembrance
I often think of our spiritual journeys as the switchback trails winding up a mountain.
We are all traveling our own pathways, sometimes parallel, sometimes crossing, and sometimes appearing to move in entirely different directions.
Yet each trail offers experiences, choices, and opportunities for greater understanding.
As we approach a turn in the trail, we have an opportunity to look back.
From this new vantage point, we may see something we could not recognize while standing in the midst of an earlier experience.
Perhaps we discover a belief we are still carrying.
Perhaps we recognize a fear, a wound, or a pattern that once served a purpose but no longer belongs in our present expression of Being.
Or perhaps we simply recognize how far we have traveled and appreciate the wisdom gained along the way.
Then we may look upward.
Ahead are new possibilities, new perspectives, and new experiences.
Are we ready to continue?
Do we need to rest awhile?
Is there something at this turn that deserves our attention before we proceed?
There is no requirement to rush toward the summit.
The journey is not about reaching a destination before someone else. It is about being fully present wherever we stand upon the path.
This is why I share my stories.
They offer possibilities, not absolutes for others.
When something touches you, perhaps you might ask:
- Does this have meaning for me?
- If so, what is it inviting me to recognize or understand?
- Have I already experienced or released something similar?
- Is there something here I have not been willing to look at?
- Or is this simply not something I wish to explore at this time?
There is no right or wrong answer that must apply to everyone.
We are simply standing at different places along the mountain trail, seeing life from different perspectives.
And even when we stand at the same place, what each of us notices may be entirely different.
The Truth We Hold in the NOW
Never be afraid to look honestly at what you hold as truth in the present moment.
It is the understanding available to you through your experiences, awareness, and consciousness at this point along your journey.
As you bring Light into the shadows and release limitations, your understanding may expand.
What you once believed to be an absolute truth may become one piece of a much greater understanding.
This does not necessarily mean your earlier understanding was wrong.
Perhaps it was simply incomplete.
Just as the mountain reveals a broader landscape with each turn of the trail, our consciousness may reveal dimensions of understanding we could not previously perceive.
My own understandings shift regularly.
I welcome this, because I do not wish to become so attached to what I believe today that I close myself to what I may discover tomorrow.
There is a difference between standing firmly in your knowing and becoming imprisoned by it.
Sovereignty does not require us to defend every belief we have ever held. It allows us the freedom to grow beyond them.
Change is one of life’s great certainties.
We may consciously participate in that change, aligning our choices with a higher expression of Being, or we may allow the tides of circumstances, fear, and outside influences to continually toss us about.
The choice of how we participate remains ours.
Facing the Fears and Shadows
Fear is an interesting companion along the journey.
We can fight against it, run from it, hide from it, or allow it to determine our actions.
Yet in doing so, we may give it authority over the very freedom we seek.
What happens when we stop fighting and simply turn to face it?
Rather than immediately declaring fear an enemy, perhaps we can ask:
What is your purpose in my life?
What are you attempting to protect me from?
Is there an experience, belief, or wound asking for my attention?
How does this affect my intention to live as a free and sovereign Being?
Is there something I need to understand or do from a place of Peace, balance, and harmony?
Or is this simply an experience I am being invited to witness and allow, while others make their own choices?
Not every circumstance requires our intervention.
Not every fear requires a battle.
Not every experience belongs to us to resolve.
Sometimes our greatest expression of sovereignty is recognizing what is ours to address and what belongs to another.
We may observe without judgment, offer compassion without assuming responsibility, and remain in Peace without withdrawing from life.
Witness. Do not feed.
And when action is appropriate, let it arise from our Presence rather than from fear.
Becoming the Conscious Director of Our Part
Thank you for reading, listening, and Being here as part of this extraordinary play we call LIFE.
William Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It:
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.”
He reminds us that we enter and exit the stage of life, playing many different roles throughout our experiences.
What a beautiful way to consider the stories we create and live!
We may not direct every circumstance, nor can we dictate the roles or choices of others.
But we can become increasingly conscious of the part we choose to play.
We can recognize when an old script no longer reflects who we are becoming.
We can release roles built upon fear, limitation, obligation, or the expectations of others.
And we can choose to participate from the Presence of our true Being.
For me, this is the essence of embodiment.
Not merely knowing spiritual truths, discussing them, or seeking another experience of enlightenment, but living what we have come to understand in the ordinary moments of our lives.
There will always be another trail, another turn, another perspective, and another story.
And perhaps the most beautiful discovery is that we do not have to know how the entire story unfolds.
We need only be fully present in the part we are living NOW.
I AM HERE.
In the Presence of Oneness, may the stories we live and share bring greater understanding, compassion, freedom, and Peace to all life.
So be it, and it is so.
