I don’t want to be cliché. I want to be refreshing as hell.
And yet…
I’m sitting there on my back porch, on my vintage metal lounge chair, hand over my heart, trying to connect to the divine.
And, because I’m still also a cynic, I can’t help but think how cliché it is to be a middle-aged white woman on her porch trying to connect to the divine.
But then I think I shouldn’t poke fun at that because divine spirituality is very serious.
But then I remember that people take themselves too seriously and I want to lighten up and have some fun.
So there’s this tension.
I do want to try it (connect with the divine). I’m curious. So many powerful books1 have the thread of the divine through them, so there must be something to it. Besides, I want to believe. And I think that’s maybe where belief starts. In the wanting.
I don’t want to live in fear and anxiety that there is not enough. I want to live in peace and joy and love.
Those sentences… It’s weird to type them. People who talk that way are very woo. They’re not taken seriously. It’s too out there. That’s just not the way the world is. There’s war and death and hate. There is real suffering.
Maybe there’s so much war and hate because they are expected. Maybe there could be more love if more people believed it were possible.
The thing about divine spirituality (look at me, talking as if I know. Ha!) is that you can’t put it on other people if they’re not ready. You can’t go around talking about oneness and how we are all connected and that we are all light and love because people will think you are bananapants.
But that’s ok. It’s not for them. It’s for you. And if you truly believe it, you won’t care what people think.
(You could keep talking about it anyway. People need to hear something like 7 times before it sticks. Maybe, over time, they might even start to believe it.)
Could you be divine-curious?
Could you wonder, Why would this seemingly smart person delve2 into mystic hippie shit? She knows data and research and facts. What would compel her toward divine spirituality?
Maybe there’s something to it.
Thanks for reading. If this made you smile, please share that smile or this post with a friend.
Love,
Kate
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz is a wonderful place to start.
Would you use the word “delve”? I’m guessing here.