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As I walk the beach, feet deep in the wetness of the ocean water between my toes, I feel connected to the landscape, the sounds, the feeling of oneness being voiced around me. The air touches my skin and awakens me to the music of the echoing birds and the crashing waves, the clarity of this moment feels like heaven on earth. If the bird did not sing, we would not know its song. If we did not take the time to listen, we would not know the words, sounds, and phrases of the animal and human story.
The importance of every voice in the universe is just as important as the many granules of sand on the ocean’s beach. Each voice is an echo of a personal truth that has the ability to affect the existing universal truth. The movement of one granule of sand has the ability to change the landscape of the beach. If the ocean did not need to touch the earth with its power and grace, we would not know the ocean songs. I feel there comes a time you have to take a risk and just speak your voice. We have come here to speak and be a part of the evolutional process of the human story. We have come here to sing our human song, to be one of the many voices singing together to support human life.
The one voice speaking its truth may be the one voice that needs to be spoken to change the frequency of the universe. The universal ear of justice and possibilities is always waiting for the one voice to feed its hungry belly of courageous yearning. The one voice has the possibility of gathering more voices, increasing in numbers until we have one more functional larger voice. In that moment we have a universal truth, a cooperative movement of the sand on a beach. If no words are spoken, we have not dialogue. To be silent is to be absent. To be silent is to be angry and muted. To be silent creates a human angst.
Resentments are built upon our unspoken anger. If a person is not heard, in time the person will surely feel less than. If you feel less than you fall into an unproductive cycle of anger. It becomes an unending cycle of not being seen or heard, being caught up in the REASONS FOR for being.
Sometimes you have to just speak your mind and express your words and thoughts.
Sometimes you just have to feel what you feel and not question why, just feel it, be it.
Sometimes you have to wait for the answers to your questions to come in faith from a deep knowing not laced in fear.
Sometimes you have to listen to other voices in order to hear yourself within the crowd of voices.
Sometimes you have to wait for the echoes of your voice to respond to you as you share it in faith and hear the true color and realm of your voice.
If you don’t speak your truth you will never know if what you had to say had any worth or meaning. Having a group conversation is a chance to air out the thoughts and words to find an agreed truth. It is a chance to create community. Even if it is not well taken, you have a response in motion and if nothing else you are speaking and engaged in your own personal evolutionary journey of change. Even if you only change your own mind, something has changed or has been formed. You have to trust the process, have faith in the unveiling of the outcome and the alchemy of the exchange. It is possible to gain answers and solutions when we trust and engage.
The lack of communication and action creates a void, an unwatered seed of change. Words and ideas are the seeds of change. The walking on the beach in a communion of shared thoughts changes the alchemy of the beach and its landscape. If notes of loving are not shared there would not be love songs sung. If notes of anger are spoken there could not be any chance of a healing. If prayers of peace were not spoken we would not know the intentions of peace or achieve a state of peace. As I listen to the sounds of a bird’s song I believe in the possibilities of trusting the alchemy of life in motion, life being present for us in its gifting.
Sometimes we just have to be brave and risk the walk on the beach and create footprints in the sand.
Sometimes we have to just take a chance on life and roll the dice to find the notes of loving in the imprints of our heels and toes, faith in the beauty of the blue sky and the ocean’s waters.
Sometimes we have trust the process of listening to the many songs that are being sung and being compassionate with our ears while we are engaged in the writing of our songs of life.
Sometimes we have to listen deeply to hear the hidden harmonies of truth and lyrics unveiling.
Sometimes we have to trust our own songs of hope caught within our open throats because nothing from nothing leaves nothing, and nothing beats a failure but a human try.
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Totally agree Terrell. Let’s start here at the GMP. Issue is well known. You don’t agree enough your posts get censored. Voice. Make your point. Not everybody is right. But hopefully all will learn.