February 19, 2025

The idea is to live in the service
of what is called for 
in each situation as it arises
with the gifts we are born with
in our original nature,
our innate virtues--what we do best and love doing most,
our inherent imagination
and our intrinsic intuition.

We have to train ourselves
to know who we are 
and to trust ourselves 
to know where, when and how 
to bring forth our gifts,
in ways appropriate to the occasion.

We become proficient with our gifts
like Luke Skywalker did in Starwars,
by spending time with emptiness,
stillness and silence,
and waiting there for awareness 
and realization to deepen,
for insight and understanding to develop,
for knowing to become automatic/spontaneous,
so that we live sincerely out of our own center
in responding to the moment at hand,
time after time.

We will be living the adventure of being alive.