If you reach a fork in the road, take it
I’m taking a day to relax, reflect, and share a laugh….
I just had a conversation that raised issues for me that were substantial and important.
I hadn’t had the same conversation since around 2012 when someone we know said to me, “You’ll soon be ready for the conference circuit.” And perfectly transparently but not at all subtly, I replied, “I have no interest in the conference circuit.” And of course I don’t. I’m a writer.
Of course as well, I never heard from the worthy gentleman again.
But the point is: I’m an introvert, an urban monk. I love silence. I work in writing, not in speaking. (1)
So that was one occasion when I reached a fork in the road (Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra’s advice: If you reach a fork in the road, take it).
The second conversation was when a friend asked me recently to involve myself in a workshop. Up came the same objection. I’m walking in the opposite direction – right now, anyways – because I was once a workshop junkie.
But right now I seek silence and solitude, not the effervescent, sociable atmosphere of a workshop.
And it really feels built-in, hard-wired. I know I’ll have to let it go when the Reval hits and humanitarian philanthropy enters the picture but I probably will always prefer quiet and solitude.
Don’t forget that, when our heart has been opened, (2) we have access to our own source of love and bliss – in our heart. So it isn’t that I’m sitting here doing nothing. And it isn’t that I’m saying I need another to “get” love from. I get it from my heart, my gas station, my ATM.
I need another to give love to. Love cries out to be shared.
I draw love up from my heart on the in-breath, enjoy it on the pause, and send it out to the world on the outbreath. And then turn my attention to whatever is next, greatly expanded in enjoyment and outlook.
Love must flow (3) and it seeks entrance and exit through any crack in our armor. But, if it’s not welcomed, it flows by us and, I assume, seeks the next open person to grace.
So another fork in the road which, when I reached it, I took it. Or did not take it. Errrrr…..
The road not taken. The fork left in the road. A reinforcement of the bent of my character – towards quietness and stillness – with love.
Footnotes
(1) Probably an even bigger obstacle is that I have almost no short-term memory. The latter days of An Hour with an Angel were hard for me because I couldn’t remember what was said or what my next question was.
(2) As it will be after the Ring of Fire, Wave of Love. See Ring of Fire, Wave of Love at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Ring-of-Fire-Wave-of-Love-Compilation-9.pdf
(3) Archangel Michael: Love is the energy of the universe. It is the energy of the Mother. And it moves constantly, continually, eternally, infinitely. So, to have an experience of love, it [must move] through you. (4) [My emphasis.] Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Dec. 5, 2018.) (Hereafter, AAM.)
AAM: Love is a fluid energy. It has need to flow and so when it does not flow it becomes… Well, as you put it, it be can become dry and brittle. It has need to be given and received above, below, within, without and in every which way. (AAM, April 30, 2019.)