y Kevin McEvenue
This blog is about my work with Participatory Spirituality. I am introducing a new topic to be shared and explored together. Other blogs about Participatory Spirituality will be identified in the first paragraph.
As I say the words out loud, I notice I stop! A sequence of events happens. Holding Grounded Presence takes over. A feeling of confusion emerges, as though I don’t know what to think. It’s true, I don’t know! MY body took a deep breath and paused; wonder washes over me.
Panic or shut down; I wonder as though I am curious. I am aware of both.
I stop, and I notice, and then something comes into my awareness! It feels new—like a new direction—as though a door has been opened in this way of responding. And holding both with equal positive regard.
Something comes that is clearly unexpected and not of my own making. Body, mind, and an awakening that is not of my own making! This is what we will be exploring as this new direction takes us to a place we have not been before, a kind of engagement with life that seems very personal.
Please join me in this new experience of myself as I explore what happens within me when I take this next step, then the next, and then the one after that. It seems to have a life of its own. I am given a choice.
My heart is beating excitedly…!
Kevin, you have brought me to an aha realisation: This connection between me and me, and between me and others, and between me and other surroundings – that is LOVE!! When I stop and let in the awareness of connections, I am letting in and participating in LOVE. Wow!! A totally new thought.