Does your body talk to you?
Have you heard its voice recently?
Your stomach gurgle?
Your heart swell?
Your ankles pop?
While all these are true,
I'm talking a little differently about the bodies talking to us.
Let's explore as we dig in Awake and Creative to week 23.
Oh,
Awake and Creative.
Can you feel it?
There's something of a weight at this point in the year.
I'll liken it to a seesaw or a roller coaster.
That tension of reaching the pinnacle,
The peak,
The turn just before the plunge.
This isn't to suggest a rise and a fall,
Just a rhythm.
We're nearly at the halfway point of this year.
Two more weeks to go.
And yet still,
We can see the crest.
There's enough time behind our path we've taken thus far to glance over the shoulder.
To see the long line of creation,
Expression,
Development that's unfolded.
Let the smile creep into your eyes as you beget the beauty you have manifest in these first 23 weeks.
But also here we are,
Cresting the peak of the turning point of this one year.
Now,
Just like the entire course of the numerological cycle,
The 1 through 9,
Just because we're at a point doesn't mean that it's over.
It's growth.
It's spiraling.
It's symbolic.
You may have already hooked into what it is that this one year is asking you to study and initiate and invigorate for this 9-year cycle.
I feel pretty confirmed that my original call to arms of get quiet,
Be small,
Close my eyes to see,
Is everything this year is about for me.
It may be difficult to understand what that means from your point of view,
But that's because this is my call.
You have your own.
It can look very different.
And yet speak to the same pattern.
This week,
Take some time.
You know what it is this one year means to you.
You know what you've been called to do.
Why you have climbed aboard this boat,
Your horse,
To charge into this year.
Take some time to own it completely.
That's what this crest we're embarking on is,
This halfway point.
To fully hold and embody the call we have received.
To identify and put it to work is the purposing we are here to continue into the full course of this one year.
This week's quote is from a fellow artist.
Contemporary of our time.
Living in Berlin.
Sophia Frese.
I paint to understand what my body already knows.
I paint to understand what my body already knows.
Connect to that this week.
Awake and creative.
Your body already knows.
Listen to it.
Let it speak.
And trust its way forward.
Awake and creative.
Today.
