ENLIGHTENMENT

"Vital Concern" Acrylic Paint on 100% cotton man's shirt

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened --Ephesians 1:18It takes suffering and the desire and will to learn to love to bring one to a place of freedom.  When one is with a sibling or family member where there is history with suffering--in that relationship-- there lies abundance.This past month has been about this sacred text from Ephesians.  Coming to know through experience, that our understanding has eyes.One momentin a struggle to seeto understanddesiring to love rather than judgeas the sun breaks through after a thunderstormone sees with the eyes of understandingcommuning with the SacredUnderstanding that resentment in a moment of time is wanting the other to revise the past--value me rather than reject me.  Desiring love rather than shame:to change memory.  Understanding that in the present moment, one opens the heart to the eternal force of love for self and the other.  When we see from the deep place within the self--the vital place--seeing with understanding that shifts the shape of suffering, this is enlightenment.  This is the light shining so one can see from the heart.  Understanding and acceptance embrace.May the eyes of your understanding be opened to the vitality of love."The vital concern is not where a people came from physically but where they are going spiritually." --Ella Deloria, Speaking of Indians