Thursday-Worm Moon Waxing, 3 days to full Compassionate Presence While Facing Tigers Shopping fiascoes happen. They come in many shape and sizes; today mine was a $73 charge that duplicated 5 times and froze my card. What a mess! How embarrassing to be told ones card has been declined. How upsetting when you know sufficient funds where transferred and confirmed just that morning! Yikes! Whats is going on? Where is the money? The adrenals kick on, voice pitch rises, the heart beats faster. Damn! There is a tiger somewhere surely! But where? Thats what my body was yelling, anyways. Only now in the modern age, it is identity thief tigers coming to raid digital storehouses. But hey, a tiger is a tiger, and its very hard to stay peacefully serene in the midst of all those rushing chemicals! With children underfoot asking a string of questions, and a line of customers waiting, it was difficult to center long enough to stop the raging chemicals. So, I asked the clerk to put the purchase aside while I took the phone outside to start making calls. Thats when human beauty happened and I almost didnt stop to fully appreciate it. A customer popped his head around the corner and offered to pay for me. Seventy three dollars worth of groceries. Seventy three dollars! But, my heart was racing, I was distracted, worried and anxious--I almost didnt hear him. I smiled, a knee jerk response, and thankfully declined. But, it was absent minded and I wasnt really present. Here was the Universe stepping in to immediately respond to my pain and distress, yet I wasnt present in the moment enough to fully savor this perfect gesture of compassion! My mind was too busy fighting imaginary tigers. Much later, after I had conquered my imaginary tiger via telephone que, text and voicemail--comprehension dawned. Today the Divine had said --Hey, Im here for you via a smiling, blackman wearing a hat. Today, that compassionate stranger, willing to do random, yet costly acts of kindness, represented the best of humanity brilliantly. As my children and I talked about it on the ride home, my youngest said, I want to be like that. To be kind, just to be kind. To be someone who stops to help. Today, that man not only represented all humans well, but he helped inspire a new generation into acts of kindness. As a parent, I am deeply grateful. I wish I could go back to that moment, to be fully present, to open my heart and arms to what the Universe was teaching. To look that stranger more fully in the eye, let him experience my focused gratitude and respect. To give the Divine sparkling deep from within each of us chance to be seen and refreshed. This experience makes me long to diligently remain tranquil in adversities and thus more fully responsive to the small miracles that often accompany them. My prayer for today? Please, bless all the compassionate strangers. Send my love and gratitude--a rippling wave moving forward. Gently, kindly train me to remain peaceful in times of adversity and fully present to beauty. Help me face my tigers with wisdom and compassion.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:29:10 +0000
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