Spiritual reading — let the inner child out to play!

September 16

Let today be the day when you take the hand of the delighted child within, and bring him or her out into the light, into the company of the other delighted children, going past the grumpy old bears, the grey shadows that are passing for human beings.

You have kept this little one—most of you—well protected from an alien and frequently unfriendly world. And you have done this with good reason.

Listen—you know that you can’t plod this old road for much longer. And yet, what other road is there?

You see, it is not a new road you need, but new feet with which to walk it. Maybe you need to skip instead of walking. Maybe you need to sing while you walk. Maybe you need to sit down by the side of the road and smell the grass and the earth. It is all there. Even the skipping feet and the songs to sing.

There is nothing you need that you do not already have.

Your life in form is not a possession, but rather an opportunity. You are in body to learn things that you cannot learn without one, to learn in ways that you cannot learn in formlessness. You are most certainly not living on the earth to accumulate anything at all, even wisdom, nor are you there to arrange, to secure,
to plan or to protect. Your life is a doorway and you can sand it and paint it and fix the threshold and sand it again and put a thin veneer of varnish over it and change the hardware and oil it and admire it.

Or you can walk through it.

You are the carriers of great joy and if you do not feel it and allow others to feel it as well, you will never find the end of the thread which, if followed, will lead you through that doorway. For each of you, the thread has a unique and personal shape and appearance, but the general concept is always the same.

When you let yourself feel joy—however that works for you—you will have access to the very reason for being, and the great reservoir of extraordinary experience that lies therein.

What else are you doing today? Do you have some very important appointments? Is there something you need to make or someone you need to save? Is there a door frame you need to sand?

Please, come on through and dance with us instead. 😉 — E. West