Your journey led you to be a Carmelite nun for over ten years to find the community to honor your need for silence, working the land, being with sisters who shared your calling to be wedded to the Divine. Your path too has been full of many twists and turns. I look forward to reading your first book, Love Calls, and listening to the meditation tapes from you.
I too am a mystic who often finds her voice in writing. Here is a part of a poem about The Way of Compassion: "Music, meditation, sunshine, yoga, feldenkrais, dance and special moments with enlightened sisters and brothers are critical for my own awakening. And most critical, time to listen within to my own Spirit, feeling her presence in alignment with what allows me to be more expansive. A call within to remembrance of ancient holy laws, needing now to be rewritten in song, dance and verse, to tell this world the matters of the heart that bind and heal our wounds. We need to liberate the oppressed, that we may rise again, speaking boldly without fear, coming from a place of knowing. For me this means silence, compassion, caring, living a disciplined life that welcomes playful times as well, letting go what no longer sustains life." This was written over 25 years ago, and I am still learning to listen and trust that tender voice within.
It felt sacred, to be in your presence this weekend. It felt sacred to be among the ancient oaks, pines, elderberries, and even the uprooted trees along Hyatt Lake yesterday. There are indeed times when life uproots us, and we need to find new ways of being in such times of momentous changes.
We need our soul sisters and brothers; it's a journey honoring our need for solitude and silence, and as well, times for camaraderie in sharing our love, and letting our voices ring out!
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