Stay Inspired: Breathe the Breath of Life

In these days, I am finding it more critical than ever to be responsible for Staying Inspired.

Brother David, Benedictine monk, author, and Dear Friend, eight months before Covid arrived at our life’s doorstep, changing our lives forever, spoke two words to me when I was on a pilgrimage in Ireland called Turas D’Anam (Journey of the Soul): "Stay Inspired.” I wrote a Blog about that at the time.

And I did. I began a serious, no-matter-what morning practice of stilling myself enough for the inner Voice to speak, teach, guide, and inspire. For the Muse to Teach through Poetry.

Did you know that the word “inspire” has its etymological roots in “breathe the breath of life into?”

May the breath of life blow into you. May this poem bring you to your own wise and deep inner ground.

Note: to experience the full experience that the poem invites you to, please watch the entire video. It is 28 seconds long.

Into the Current

by Amba Gale

Be
inspired by the smoke
of incense,
rising, 
rising in a straight line
from the crown chakra of the Spirit Being
whose rattle speaks and clears
your mind.

  Higher,
  Higher,

the grey smoke dances with itself
Curling, 
Swirling.          Swirling
and 	and
curling
in some current, I cannot see.

I, too, swirl and curl
within the wild and firey dance
that is my life.

The invisible current
that moves my life 
through my life
in a dance all its own

carries me,
ferries me
to a destiny I do not yet see,
my own, our own,
a person I yet do not know
my Self,
and who I am becoming,
who we are becoming.

This, I am clear:
This
is a time of great transformation.

I trust
as I let go
into the current 
that is our lives.

Steer the ship with joy and purpose.
Stay awake,
and do what’s rightfully yours to do.

Resistance to what is breeds malcontent.

Stay principled yourself.
“To thine own Self be True,”
the Master Poet said.
Keep your own light shining. 
Do not let the flame go out.

A trust
and a willingness to hold each other
as we grow into the shape we are meant to be
in a time of Great Transformation.

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