tapestry

  A few weeks ago I was with a dear soul who I hadn’t seen in a number of months.  Our time together was much too short, but given the spiritual challenges he is facing the brevity of our time together was completely understandable.  One of the comments he shared with me was about his desire to be transparent.  I have thought a lot about that word in the past couple of weeks and thought on this day of resurrection it would make a very appropriate topic.   Many years back I heard an interesting interpretation on the crucifixion of Jesus.  As we know there were others that were nailed to the cross at the same time that Christ was.  The interpretation that was shared was this; imagine the person on the left represented our past and the person on the right was to exemplify the future and Jesus was the present, the middle or in the moment, which is all we have.  I was struck by this vision with the thought that one of his many teachings is to have presence in the present.  As I thought about more about this metaphor I realized that one of the goals of being transparent in life is the ability to be in the moment.  The definition for transparent I found suggests it is “an object that lets light through so that objects on the other side can be seen clearly” .In my daily desire to be transparent or free of deceit I realize that each day I have to die to the old to be born to the new, for me that means there are crucifixions and rebirth’s regularly. For those of us who want to be authentic, transparency is not a destination rather a journey that requires constant reflection, assessment and inventory of our lives.   My hope is that whatever the meaning of Easter has for you that today you check with your inner voice and ask if you are free of deceit.  Are you fully living in the knowing that Easter represents resurrection, both of a man of great wisdom and an opportunity for you to be visible enough for people to see who you are and what you stand for.  I also  reminded myself today that I had to become everything I wasn’t to become everything that I am, and that once the rock was removed from the tomb of my own darkness that I would have to die over and over again to find the peace in being a woman that  has the ability to be seen clearly.

Tags: authenticity, rebirth, spirtuality, transparency

Posted on Sunday, April 12th, 2009 at 8:07 am | Life in the Heartland, Women's Spirituality