Orion On...When Life Takes You On A Path You Didn’t Choose

  

From Elisabeth  

Let me begin with an update on Mimi.  Three and half weeks in we have good news! In the last few days, Mimi has made wonderful milestones.  She is fully conscious, can breathe on her own and speak softly.  Yesterday she ate some solid food – applesauce and eggs – and was able to sit in a recliner for awhile.  She is still in a step-down ICU unit and various devices and monitors – including her tracheotomy, medication port and feeding-tube will not be removed for a bit longer.  The next step will be a re-habilitation hospital with Traumatic Brain Injury specialty.

I want to thank all of you who so graciously contributed to Mimi’s Go Fund Me page. As I said in my last post, I don’t manage the GFM page, but donors are visible at the page.  I sent my personal thanks to all of you I recognized. A couple people who donated anonymously let me know they did so. And if you contributed in this way, please accept my personal thank you right here in this moment.  You are all so appreciated.

Here is a very personal and encouraging piece from Orion.

Orion On...When Life Takes You On A Path You Didn’t Choose

Dear Ones, Recently Elisabeth’s beloved step-daughter, Mimi, was in a terrible car accident. Life crashed into her in the form of a truck driven by a drunk driver crashing into Mimi’s treasured Mini Cooper car.  Life as it had been stopped; everything on hold. Mimi’s ‘next’ was on hold and on a different path.  As we write this weeks later,  Mimi is fully with us, recovering from the initial state where that was in doubt.  But her journey continues to be arduous and not as it had been just a few weeks ago.

Such events are a great challenge.  First our minds don't want to accept it. Then we want to reconfigure it.  Our minds swirl with the possibility of changing things – if only, if it had been like this, it things had been prevented.  The narrative making aspect of our minds is immediately drawn to the prospect that we can indeed change what has actually occurred by thinking how it could have been different.  This movement is at first a comfort; a pause to let the mind come to grips with the fait accompli, the actuality, that has occurred.

We see that in this world of personalization, customization -  a plethora of  options choices available in so many arenas, where we have come to expect that most things and situations can be exactly as we prefer, as we place our order - the pull to move away from standing in the moment of our crash point, the moment of an occurrence that just is and out of our control and definition, is more prevalent. 

Our many choices may leave us less able to simply stand, center and be with where life has taken us. We are less in touch with that strength of being present in that which we do not prefer and do not want to embrace.  But each of us does carry that strength. Being present supports us in a deep way, as we align with the events of life. We merge with actuality.

From there, we can begin to find the true options that arise.  This has happened. Yes. Now we can do this. We can learn this. We can be with this.  We can draw together.  We can comfort each other. We can be present for each other; help one another.  We can gather support. All those actions, those choices we can make flow easier and stronger as we stand in the center of the difficult moment that has come into our life and those of others.

With such challenges, a simply axiom we learned from a friend, comes present. ‘Something will happen. You’ll find what you can do and what you cannot do. Begin there.'

Our spiritual awareness, our spiritual practices, our recognition of More in the Worlds, , are not here to prevent and rectify. Nor do we see Life giving us lessons. We may indeed learn from what has occurred, but to us, it did not occur as a teaching moment from the vastness of the All. Rather our spiritual understandings are our own recognition and expression of the interconnection with all things, with the All. This is a core understanding we share over and over again.

From that recognition of interconnection, we find strength arises and supports us and can lead us to that next moment where we find how to proceed and then the next moment and Life continues it’s flow with us and us with it. 

As we step onward day by day, this is where we see our strength, allow our concerns and tenderness, embrace support and help as it shows up.  This is how we carry on.  Carrying on is a brave action in the world. Thank you for your courage.

Orion

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