Singing The Long Song, A Song of Awakening

There is a song that is being sung. I call it The Long Song, A Song of Awakening.

It calls to us.

Those who listen will hear and respond.

When so much of what we once knew is now different, we may listen in different ways.

Our hearts may be opening into depths we were too busy to hear in the past.

Are you hearing The Long Song?

Singing The Long Song, A Song of Awakening

Oh night!

I speak onto you in the midst of your stars,
And your glorious light of eternal love.
I stand quietly under the night sky as it explodes into
The Song of Awakening.

All of creation responds to this song:
the past ages echo in low remembrance and wait
as present and future fill in the notes of now and beyond.
This is The Long Song,
One which has taken all of time to create
And all of time to sing.

I am a singer of this Long Song.
I seek to understand the words and eventually, the music.
It will take all my days to learn.

During Times of Crisis We May Be Deeply Changed

When what we once knew changes, we listen in different ways.

Our hearts may be opening into depths we were too busy to hear in the past.

Are you hearing The Long Song?

Is there an awakening that is happening in your life?

I look around and see the deeper need for change. I think about how I have the ability to make changes and what better time than now?

Changes from the inside rise up, I am embracing myself and my being deeper than ever before. I am accepting who I am with a deeper understanding and gratitude. And in that, my inner conflict has gone.

I no longer sabotage myself, or refuse to listen.
I listen and I love.
When I am tired, I listen.
When I am sad, I do not mock myself, or say in the words of another, “get over it.”
Instead I sit down, me and me, and say, “lets talk.”

And I listen to what is inside of me and sometimes I hear parts of me that were “sent to my room.”
I sit down and really listen with empathy and understanding.

Over time there has been a great shifting. There is a level of acceptance that feels like a dawning in slow motion. And it is here, in this moment, that I realize how important this work has been.

Over the years I have learned. I have walked, step by step. I have listened to the within and the without. Without noticing I began.

Weeks ago I began to create a new artist book out of wooden boards, ceramic work, paint, tears and words.
I have put my hands to change and I feel my life blood surge within. There is a new energy that is flowing thru me.

There is a deeper vision now.
I have sung the long song for a very long time.
I sang it deep into the night, in my dreams and in my waking.
And now, I am moving deeper into the creation of outer work.

The inner work has given way to the road of creative energy.
What was once a simple path has become a roadway.
I find that this is a good path for my lifework and a model of what I offer.

The long song, the song of awakening.
I have been singing it for a very long time.