“The Soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for excursions into enchantment. It requires them like the body needs food and your mind needs thought. Yet our culture often takes pride in disproving and exploding the sources of enchantment, explaining away one mystery after another and overturning precious shrines, dissolving the family farm that has housed spirits of civility for eons, or desecrating for material profit a mountain or stream sacred to Native Residents. We have yet to learn that we can’t survive without enchantment and that the loss is killing us.”
~~Thomas Moore
The Enchantment of Everyday Life
How often do we find ourselves enchanted? When was the last time you felt that feeling when the mystery of coincidence or an epiphany that left you speechless and in awe of the sacredness of life. An encounter you could not explain away, something that left you well…enchanted?
Angels are Messengers of God. They fill the space between heaven and earth. They see themselves as sparks of the divine. While they do have their specialties, they do not consider themselves separate. We could also think of ourselves in the same way when we take human form. We are little messengers bearing our own message for the world. We too are divine sparks.
. When you look up into the night sky at the moon and stars, it is easy to see some stars are brighter, some stick out more than others, but if they all were the same size and same brightness it would not be nearly as enchanting to look at. If only we viewed ourselves in a similar way. Some are brighter some are smaller. Some twinkle more than others. But have you ever seen an ugly star? Or judged a star, and asked it why it did not shine as bright as the one next to it? What would happen if the world suddenly shifted into a world where we marveled at each other and became enchanted, seeing the mystery and the beauty that is shining from within, blinding us to the negativity we seem to accumulate living a human life. When we learn to open the seed of life that is our Soul, it comes bursting forth with a light so bright it burns off the ideas of darkness.
Imagine just for a moment if we began to see the world not as something that needed to be fixed but filled with great mystery – and how all things and all people are so different. People wax and wane just like the moon – what if we saw our exit from this life like a shooting star?
When we hear that a comet or meteorite could come close enough to Earth to cause harm we have great wonder and respect for the heavenly body that could possibly destroy us. We are all very aware of the dangers of the sky the black holes the thought of the sun burning itself out and the power of the Moon during a storm. Still we don’t judge. We don’t hate the Moon. We don’t hate the Sun or the stars. The biggest fear humans have regarding the sky is the fear that there may be intelligent life on another Planet. Interesting isn’t it? We fear the possibility of intelligent life – we fear ourselves, and each other.
As the nights grow longer and warmer, make some time to stroll out into the evening, gaze up at the sky and at the stars and the moon and the beauty it holds and as you look up at it all with wonder and amazement know that the angels are looking back, with the same love, and are just as enchanted by gazing at you.
Cynhtia
