Tending Our Light--Through Life, Death & the Afterlife
Saturday, October 7, 2017 • Pueblo Convention Center, Pueblo, Colorado - 9 am - 4:30 pm
About Tending Our Light...
By Marcia Beachy
In our distant past there were not conveniences like matches, lighters or pilot lights on gas stoves. There was precious fire in the hearth with coals that needed some vestige of life so you might renew the fires in the morning. If the coals went out, you were dependent on the benevolence of a neighbor or skill with flint stones. Little Johnny would have to put on his woolies and run out in the dark morning to the neighbors begging for hot coals for the family fire.
Tending your fire was not taken lightly. In the dead of winter it could save your life and those of your loved ones.
In this conversation, our fire is our light within—and from the whole person perspective, it is even more precious. It is our zest, hope, passion, meaning and very essence. It dims with sadness and abuse—and when we feel stifled. It catches fire when the sun shines and our spirit feels creative, purposeful and connected.
Many situations and people beg us to neglect our light. They cry out to be rescued, to suffer, to bemoan the state of affairs, to get swept up in a new drama that assures us it is more important than our sanity, life force and soul—i.e. our light.
When a difficult situation is truly yours to handle, you will find that there is something calling you within the pain. If you listen, you will hear a quiet tapping from some shadowy thing that is coming into view and wants you to pay it heed. So you let it hone you. You let it tear your heart open and fill you with Love. The power within these difficult situations often calls us to be of service. And our fire sparks to life.
If we don’t hear the quiet tapping, only endless drama or sadness, whether in a relationship or situation, it’s deadening to our fire and like with any fire, we need to go where the breezes are softer and the shelter comforting. I have discovered that tending my fire is holy. This is a sacred fire we carry within us. And it deserves honesty, proper fuel and a quiet hearth around which we can gather.
In a time that lures us into the great illusions of war, of darkness, of hopelessness—our light is crucial. Our light is paramount to the great uplifting of consciousness in which we are invited to participate. It is critical to the wholeness possible now. We are asked to perceive the greater truth of who we are. We are asked to remember that participation in this evolutionary struggle in which we find ourselves, is likely the key reason we chose to come to this besieged and lovely planet.
Heaven is becoming tangible within the hearts of many. We see it every day, if we choose to see. We hear it everywhere if we choose to hear. We can take heart.
So tending our light is imperative. Burn out is the least viable option.
Ancient traditions tell us that tending our beautiful light, our consciousness, is essential not only through life, but through the process we call death and into the realms beyond. These are mysteries with which we in the West are now grappling. How do you transition with your spirit aware and bright while your body is crumbling? As we stay open to being guided, we can ask the questions that expand and assist us in this most worthy quest.
We welcome all to this conversation at the 3rd annual Southern Colorado Conference on Conscious Living & Dying October 7, 2017.
In our distant past there were not conveniences like matches, lighters or pilot lights on gas stoves. There was precious fire in the hearth with coals that needed some vestige of life so you might renew the fires in the morning. If the coals went out, you were dependent on the benevolence of a neighbor or skill with flint stones. Little Johnny would have to put on his woolies and run out in the dark morning to the neighbors begging for hot coals for the family fire.
Tending your fire was not taken lightly. In the dead of winter it could save your life and those of your loved ones.
In this conversation, our fire is our light within—and from the whole person perspective, it is even more precious. It is our zest, hope, passion, meaning and very essence. It dims with sadness and abuse—and when we feel stifled. It catches fire when the sun shines and our spirit feels creative, purposeful and connected.
Many situations and people beg us to neglect our light. They cry out to be rescued, to suffer, to bemoan the state of affairs, to get swept up in a new drama that assures us it is more important than our sanity, life force and soul—i.e. our light.
When a difficult situation is truly yours to handle, you will find that there is something calling you within the pain. If you listen, you will hear a quiet tapping from some shadowy thing that is coming into view and wants you to pay it heed. So you let it hone you. You let it tear your heart open and fill you with Love. The power within these difficult situations often calls us to be of service. And our fire sparks to life.
If we don’t hear the quiet tapping, only endless drama or sadness, whether in a relationship or situation, it’s deadening to our fire and like with any fire, we need to go where the breezes are softer and the shelter comforting. I have discovered that tending my fire is holy. This is a sacred fire we carry within us. And it deserves honesty, proper fuel and a quiet hearth around which we can gather.
In a time that lures us into the great illusions of war, of darkness, of hopelessness—our light is crucial. Our light is paramount to the great uplifting of consciousness in which we are invited to participate. It is critical to the wholeness possible now. We are asked to perceive the greater truth of who we are. We are asked to remember that participation in this evolutionary struggle in which we find ourselves, is likely the key reason we chose to come to this besieged and lovely planet.
Heaven is becoming tangible within the hearts of many. We see it every day, if we choose to see. We hear it everywhere if we choose to hear. We can take heart.
So tending our light is imperative. Burn out is the least viable option.
Ancient traditions tell us that tending our beautiful light, our consciousness, is essential not only through life, but through the process we call death and into the realms beyond. These are mysteries with which we in the West are now grappling. How do you transition with your spirit aware and bright while your body is crumbling? As we stay open to being guided, we can ask the questions that expand and assist us in this most worthy quest.
We welcome all to this conversation at the 3rd annual Southern Colorado Conference on Conscious Living & Dying October 7, 2017.