Back to Joucas and to trust

Limbo lies heavily on my shoulders. While some can see it as the pause before change, I find myself dancing awkwardly, offbeat and caught up in waiting. When asked, “What is your biggest challenge?”, well, I know that my response is relative and a shape-shifter depending on where one is at in a certain point in life. But for right now, if I am being honest, I would have to answer, “Trusting.” So much has been up in the air these past few months, so many glittering balls suspended, yet to tumble down. They will. And I am definitely aware that uncertainty is a part of many of our daily lives. Best then to try and make peace with this parenthesis. When I am present enough, I can decide to root myself in searching for beauty, my balm…
Day in, day out.
Ben reminds me to keep it simple.
Remi reassures me with a quick kiss in passing.
My Sister reminds me to take good care of myself and I know that there is strength to be found in helping others.
(Buy U2’s excellent song “Invisible” on itunes or donate to the Bank of America’s pledge for RED’s fight against AIDS.
or
Take The Valentine’s Day Romantic survey to help BabyHeart: http://womensvoicesforchange.org/80609.htm – thanks Tish!)
And when in limbo, what better a time to ask yourself the important questions.
“Do you have Love for Humankind?” I do and in that I trust. The rest will work itself out.
To listen and watch:

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48 comments

  1. I await with interest your latest adventure, Heather… I know all the limbo, waiting and uncertainty will flourish beautifully… 🙂 xv

  2. Ah yes…limbo is frustrating, I feel like I have been living it for a couple of years now. Wondering when the next phase will come but then I suppose that is all of life, eh? Beautiful photos as always!

  3. Limbo is a place, a state of being. Limbo, as you acknowledge, at the start of your post is also a dance. In the dance, the dancer tries to pass under the pole, and emerge triumphant. The key to success seems to lie in the origin of the word limbo, from the Jamaican English word, limba, to bend. According to Wiki, in the original limbo, with each successful transit under the pole, the pole was raised. This meant with each success, the dance became easier and easier. Nice! I think with your search for beauty, you are participating in very successful bending. You are bound to come through in triumph 🙂

  4. “At certain point in life” discernment and decision intersect which may take some time.
    “Trust” and faith come together and help you wait.
    Your photos show the raw beauty of time and place and the tiny crescent moon watched you walked by.

    Thank you for the haunting video-music.

  6. Hello Heather

    Limbo is exactly what we were speaking of this evening amongst friends. Oh if we could find the formula for patience. I love your images and words. Sending you my best wishes

    Helen xx

  7. Taking an untrumpeted break from many things, blogging among them. However, was led here, I am certain, by Divine appointment. Allow me to share with you the words I just read:

    'My perceptual field focuses automatically in each human being, adjusting for each and every situation, providing precisely the the range of awareness that is required for that moment in time. Perfection is trusting this, accepting the field of awareness that you have in any given moment, knowing it as precisely what you need for the purpose you are there to fulfill. When you have this trust, you know yourself to be one with your Creator. You do all things well, enjoying your work and bringing happiness to those whose space and time you share. Trust first in the little things and as this habit grows, you will come to see the larger picture.

    Be with me now. Let your heart be still. Let all within the field of your awareness drift gently to a state of rest. Take time for me and I will give you a new time and a new way to use the time you have. More than the air, you need communion with your Holy Spirit. Take the time to be still, to be with me. Let yourself rest in the Eternal Being. Know the peace and security of your Creator's presence, the inheritance, the birthright you have forgotten. Sustain yourself in a restful state, trusting, while I flow refreshing through your circuitry, soothing you with grace, illuminating your understanding.To consciousness I call you, to a time of birth and awakening, to an Age of Discovery and adventure, but most of all I call you home.'

  8. Trusting, trusting that life will pan out, somehow, some way…and strangely, it mostly always seems to be so…It's going to be an interesting year of growth and change for you, I feel. xx Virginia

  9. There are so many ways to feel in limbo, Heather. It's a difficult way to live, I know. Perhaps it is a consolation to know that you aren't alone. Trusting – when we've been let down by "the universe" or disappointed in other ways – is a casualty for many of us.

    Meanwhile, the search for beauty – and the treasure of finding it, always, in your words and images – is indeed a balm, and grounding.

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