Dance! Sing! Celebrate!

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

- The Buddha

Several years ago, in the hallway of a building that I was working, I noticed there were several plants sitting behind a wall right next to a large window. When I first noticed the plants, it was early in the morning and the sun had not yet begun to shine through the window.

Later that afternoon I walked by the plants and noticed that they were all leaning away from and around the wall toward the window. They were seeking to catch the sun’s rays. Of course, the plants were merely using the light energy from the sun to convert water and other material into  food in order to grow and flourish.

Similarly, there is something within all of us that is seeking to emerge as well.

That something may be a song that needs to be sung, a dance that needs to be danced, a business that wants to be developed or the rhythm and rhyme of a poem that is seeking to be expressed.

That urging may come in many forms. But the bottom line is the glorious nature of God is always seeking to express itself through each and everyone of us. Because life is not about staying in place or tarrying with yesterday, there is a an urgency for this emergence to take place. This urgency is met when we fully incarnate in this moment.

Recently, I was approached by a young man who was curious about reincarnation. He was interested in who he was in the his last lifetime and what he was going to be in his next lifetime.

I responded by saying what is really important is that he fully incarnate in this lifetime.

There are some people who don’t fully live and occupy the space they are in now. To fully occupy the space they are in now means to live life fully and not hold anything back.

This is what it means to fully incarnate.

Sometimes we observe people who have accessed this intelligence in a particular way. We call such people artists because they have become receptive to the glorious love and beauty of the universe and they have allowed it to come through and as them.

We might be inclined to believe that such people simply have creative personalities. However, there is no such thing as a creative personality. There is only creative intelligence that individuals have accessed and as they access it, they become what we call creative artists.

Yet, we are here to go further than that. We want for our entire being to reveal the glorious nature of this God presence and not just let it be limited to any particular area of our life.

This is why we are here. As one of my colleagues likes to say, “Life is Alive – Live It!”

Early this morning, my mantra wasn’t “Life is Alive, Live It”. It was more like, “Life is a Bed, Sleep in It”.

But ultimately, something said “Wake up and become part of what is seeking to emerge in and as you.”

So we want to remember no matter what we may be going through or growing through, life is everywhere and calling us to awake. Dance!  Sing! Celebrate! And be more ourselves.