Let us begin in silence.
Let us begin with an opening consciousness prayer.
Coming back home to the stillness within.
May we become quiet enough to recognize the sacred movements that do not announce themselves.
Maybe.
As we go deeper,
We recognize.
This prayer.
But not from the mind.
From deep within the heart.
May we become still enough.
To notice what life has been forming beneath the surface of our ornery days.
May we stop searching only for what appears dramatic,
Visible,
Immediate,
And learn again to trust the wisdom that unfolds unseen.
May we become receptive to the deeper life that does not arrive through force.
But through opening.
May we allow ourselves to soften where we have become guarded.
To listen.
Where we have become occupied.
And to remain available.
Where we have become certain.
May we recognize that not all growth appears as expansion.
And that's sometimes.
What feels like stillness is preparation.
What feels like uncertainty.
Is reorganization and what feels hidden.
Is quietly forming alive.
May we trust that there are seasons where consciousness gathers itself inwardly,
Where understanding develops roots before becoming visible,
Where love matures before it becomes expression,
And where truth waits patiently until it can become embodied.
May we remember that nothing sacred is lost in silence,
That what is real does not disappear because it's unseen.
May with the grace of the Divine,
The Divine Presence in creation,
We remember that what is forming inwardly may already be changing the way we see.
The way we speak,
The way we relate,
And the way we walk through the world.
May we become transparent enough that what is most deeply alive within us no longer remains hidden,
And what has become quietly breathed into the depths of our being begins.
In its own time.
And without force.
To become living.
Amen.
