Trusting in the unknown.
What is visible is known.
Or so we think.
But every visible thing leads pathways to the invisible everything.
The invisible is not hiding behind the visible.
It emerges from the visible,
It is how it is seen.
The invisible is seen through the visible.
Like when we see someone extend their hand to someone who is grieving.
We see the invisible love and the visible touch.
When a leaf is rustled dancing.
We see the invisible wind,
A force made visible by the way the leaf is carried.
What is visible in your life that is a symbol,
A gateway,
A path to the invisible beauty that is showing itself to you.
There is also a knowing in the unknown.
There is a way that what is known is confining as it is defining.
But there is also a way that the known is just a noticing and an expression of the great unknown.
Just like you know your name,
But you never know how it's going to sound when your lover says it just right and what it means to you to be called.
To be called by your name.
You may know where you stand,
But you may not know where you will be summoned.
You may know what you think is true.
It's just the illusion covering over the truth that wants to show itself that usually comes forth when you're cracked open.
When you fall to your knees at the doorway and the feet of the unknown,
That is when you will really know.
There is a mystery that has majesty in it.
There is a journey that has staying in it.
You stay with the home that is yourself,
Even as you travel from one home to another.
You're a guest in the home of those who will have you who will open their doors to you,
Maybe even there's a door with you have a key to.
You rest your head every night.
But even the home you think is the same is always changing.
The people who live within the four walls are changing every day.
Sometimes you trade one address for another.
Sometimes you visit someone else in their home.
As you wonder,
Can you wonder,
Such that your curiosity is always leading you home.
As you wonder,
Being a guest in different experiences and different moments and different places with different faces.
Can you also be the host of your own truth.
Can you also graciously welcome every part of you to the table to the feast that you have laid out before yourself to enjoy.
And when you know the home within yourself.
When you enjoy what's unknown because it is part of what is here,
And part of what is coming.
And you'll notice that you are freer and more at peace than when you are trying to stay still and force your future into submission.
Your future does not want to be wrangled,
Like an animal trying to be tamed inside a cage.
Future wants to fly.
Your future will tell you who it is and who you are.
And as you walk your path and light your light and shine it bright,
You inspire others.
What you give away becomes what you have.
Where you share yourself becomes the place that you will stay,
Where you will stay inside the very thing that you were offering.
We are the sum of what we give away.
Our glory,
Our joy,
Our juice,
Our freedom.
All born from the encounter we have with the listening to the call of our soul.
To lead is to listen.
To lead yourself is to be led.
Is to tune in to the place that you're being a little bit too noisy to hear sometimes.
And to say,
I'm here and I will attend to you with my attention and my intention to know.
To know what needs to be known and to know what I cannot know and will not know and what will revel as unknown that can only be lived into and lived through.
By your yes,
By your saying yes to what you can see and to what is invisible.
So can you relax a little deeper now?
Breathe a little more spaciously.
Trust a little bit more beautifully.
Can you agree with yourself?
Instead of waging war inside yourself against who you really are.
For trusting the unknown.
Means trusting yourself.
Trusting yourself to be able to navigate.
To be able to plant roots when you need to plant roots.
And to choose to lose them so that you can grow wings when you need to grow wings when you want to grow wings.
And you shed the wings to find a hearth inside a home.
And then you close the door behind you in the home when you're ready for your next adventure.
It's a dance.
The chance we take on life.
It's a dance worth dancing.
Will you enjoy it?
Will you enjoy it?
Will you enjoy it?
Thank you.
