Little Treasure Box - 2007

This morning my inner teacher woke me early so I could think in the dark and appreciate the gradual graying of the sky into overcast daylight, and the sound of the cold winter rain. I realized there in my flannel-cocoon quiet that my noisy mind could use a de-frag. I asked my inner guidance to perform that procedure.
How I enjoyed watching the varying columns and bits of flying colors, the whole shebang. Done! Ahhhhh........
Then I realized I needed some kind of "File Manager" program for my mental field, so I asked for that.
One after another, several tall filing cabinets appeared, holding all the facets of my creative and personal lives in perfect order, sometimes re-ordering my awareness in surprisingly effective ways. There were five main categories: Library Work, Gardener, Theater, Mother, Storyteller.
Then I thought, "Hmm - is that all?” Why not take the whole thing and ask for a tighter job now, and see if a single organizing principle might cover all my life-jewel facets. "SIMPLICITY," I directed my spiritual helpers.
Immediately I was given, instead of all those tall filing cabinets, a mind-picture of the small wooden recipe box in my kitchen. Inside there were those little divider-cards, and each had a label - but before I could read the labels my mind changed the recipe box into a miniature file cabinet standing upright on top of the low bookshelf in the children’s corner of my living room.
The bottom drawer was labeled ALL MY RELATIONS;* the next-to-bottom drawer, GRATITUDE and HONORING;** the second-from-top drawer, GROWING CORN / WALK YOUR TALK;*** and the top drawer? It was WALK IN BEAUTY.**** On top of the little file cabinet was a tiny blinking radiant seed energy: a God-Spark! I tuned in to it and it showed itself to me for what God is: the ultimate shape-shifter.
The divine Playmate which pretends Itself as all things outer-and-inner-visible.... Now a mountain, now a mustard seed; now a zygote, now a bumblebee; now a mother, now a father; now an enemy, now a friend; now a beginning, now an end...Oh, that old brand-new Creator! Sweet mysterious Beloved, that Source of all my seeking...
I looked at the file cabinet again, and saw that the front of each drawer now had a picture. ALL MY RELATIONS carried a picture of a butterfly egg. For GRATITUDE and HONORING, a there was a caterpillar. For GROWING CORN / WALK YOUR TALK, there was a cocoon. And for WALK IN BEAUTY, there was a butterfly. With this, my soul was satisfied. I've got blessings to pass along.

*ALL MY RELATIONS - the Native peoples' way of acknowledging oneness - communion and relationship - with every created being and thing, outer- and inner-visible.
**GRATITUDE and HONORING - the way we source ourselves with high energies - the more grateful we are for the beautiful simple wonders we experience on this planet, and for the services we receive and those we are called to give - the more we honor all that is sacred - the more high-vibrational energy we are able to receive, to use for harmonizing and healing and manifesting abundance.
***GROWING CORN and WALK YOUR TALK - Some Native peoples use the phrase "Growing Corn" to acknowledge the riches that come to us through visions in the dreamtime - visions of good work that will "grow corn" for the people and for all beings, for now and for the next seven generations. When a person has a vision that will surely grow corn, then s/he must not waste energy through speaking of it all the time - but instead, walk-the-talk by getting to work on the actualization of the vision.. Let others speak of the results of that good work.
****WALK IN BEAUTY - Native peoples may give these words as a blessing. When one has done the work of becoming sacred - becoming a container for the power of Love - then one "walks in Beauty." Those who walk in this vibration are going through life with amazing emanations of compassionate courage coming from their wise, awakened hearts. They are able to see the Beauty potential in everything, and they carry the power that can help that which is out of balance, to rebalance and become harmonious, and their focus assists Beauty in increasing itself.