What Is Your Stand

 

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August 31, 2020

We can’t keep September 2020 from entering our road race.  Over the past week we couldn’t stop the hurricanes from pounding our American shores.  The message seems to be pretty clear that we can’t stop large groups of people from mingling during a pandemic.  Learning how to embrace we can’t control.  That’s the subject of this podcast episode.  As a 3^rd Degree Black Belt one of the most important lessons I’ve learned on this way moving forward is to be aware of what can and can’t be controlled and sway away from those that will totally take out your energy.  Mindfully being aware of the existence of how something might play out is allowed to move in the direction of choice.  During these uncertain times our imaginations and hearts are trying to write a story that doesn’t exist.  My Master would ask me, “Do you have the ability to control it?”  If my reply was, “No.”  He’d quickly intercept the conversation with, “Move on.” Let me say it again.  Mindfully being aware of the existence of how something might play out is allowed to move in the direction of choice.  And in giving it permission to materialize our decision is to continue to break or use the shattered pieces to formulate some sort of new stage or rock. I’m going to step across a huge line right now. It may upset you and could honestly create a disconnection this moment forward.  My entire life.  All the way back to being a punk kid who felt church was the only answer in life.  All I’ve ever heard about was Moses telling the people to drop their False Idols and Gods.  That portrait of him coming off that mountain has haunted me the entire way.  It’s made me completely aware of how easy it is to find something in a have nothing world.  I tend to ask God a lot of questions.  The Dude doesn’t speak to me but my imagination is given new ways to process.  I’ve always been worried about people locating a False Idol.  During these Covid challenges where it’s beginning to feel like we’re losing a lot more than gaining.  My hearts been racing, “Oh my God this is one of those moments!”  Then I began to write in my daily journals, “In 2020 there aren’t people seeking a False Idol.  We’ve had them since the beginning.  The world of music, sports, movies, comic books, religion and business leaders that can turn two pennies into a billion dollars.  The False Idols have always been here! But when the world stopped in March of 2020 as did the Idols.  Gone!  The majority of them still gone.  People are struggling today to relocate their False Idols.”  One look at the headlines and you’ll feel the total impact of how our inner core of thoughts are evolving into a new state of something so incredibly invisible and yet we know it’s right there in front of us.  What is your stand?  Not where are you standing in physical form.  What is your stand?  What’s driving you?  What’s keeping you focused and out of tune at the same time?  What will it take to bring you forward without having to invest in your shadow?  What is your stand?  How does your rush and push in the new everyday world get fed?  Mindfully being aware of the existence of how something might play out is allowed to move in the direction of choice.  Is that the right decision?  Your heart speaks to you on every path that mysteriously drops into place.  Do you go with the flow or generate a source of energy that some might see as retrieving an old Idol?  Where do you stand? If I don’t ask these questions.  You won’t either.  Be a leader.  Not a false hope.