Comments on: Fear and Freedom http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/ Transformative Living through Contemplative & Expressive Arts Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:08:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Christine http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-6094 Christine Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:05:30 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/#comment-6094 Thanks so much Kathy, I love this line of yours: " I’m walking toward my truth, and I am being led, and that is the sweetest freedom of all." Amen. I adore Lynn Ungar's poetry and this is one of my favorites, good to be reminded of it. My favorite line is “Gone to the fields / to be lovely. Be back when I’m through / with blooming.” Thanks so much Kathy, I love this line of yours: ” I’m walking toward my truth, and I am being led, and that is the sweetest freedom of all.” Amen.

I adore Lynn Ungar’s poetry and this is one of my favorites, good to be reminded of it. My favorite line is “Gone to the fields / to be lovely. Be back when I’m through / with blooming.”

]]> By: Kathy Flugel Stone http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-6085 Kathy Flugel Stone Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:41:01 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/#comment-6085 Your entry today was so touching. I danced along with you and Tune....I have so grappled with this issue of fear. That was my New Year's resolution. My sons and I wrote down what we wanted to let go of, that was no longer serving us. We each took turns burning our pieces of paper in a bowl outside and then let the wind take it away. It was night and there was a gentle snow falling. The sky was an illuminated pink, mother-of-pearl hue. Such a feeling of being held and released. Fear still creeps in, just like you describe. Like most recently, paying my graduate school tuition and thinking, "What are you doing?....that could have gone toward your retirement!" But then I get that sweet feeling in my soul that I'm walking toward my truth, and I am being led, and that is the sweetest freedom of all...I leave you with a poem: Camas Lilies Consider the lilies of the field, the blue banks of camas opening into acres of sky along the road. Would the longing to lie down and be washed by that beauty abate if you knew their usefulness, how the natives ground their bulbs for flour, how the settler’s hogs uprooted them, grunting in gleeful oblivion as the flowers fell? And you – what of your rushed and useful life? Imagine setting it all down – papers, plans, appointments, everything leaving only a note: "Gone to the fields to be lovely. Be back when I’m through with blooming." Even now, unneeded and uneaten, the camas lilies gaze out above the grass from their tender blue eyes. Even in sleep your life will shine. Make no mistake. Of course your work will always matter. Yet, Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Camas Lilies © by Lynn Ungar Your entry today was so touching. I danced along with you and Tune….I have so grappled with this issue of fear. That was my New Year’s resolution. My sons and I wrote down what we wanted to let go of, that was no longer serving us. We each took turns burning our pieces of paper in a bowl outside and then let the wind take it away. It was night and there was a gentle snow falling. The sky was an illuminated pink, mother-of-pearl hue. Such a feeling of being held and released. Fear still creeps in, just like you describe. Like most recently, paying my graduate school tuition and thinking, “What are you doing?….that could have gone toward your retirement!” But then I get that sweet feeling in my soul that I’m walking toward my truth, and I am being led, and that is the sweetest freedom of all…I leave you with a poem:

Camas Lilies
Consider the lilies of the field,
the blue banks of camas opening
into acres of sky along the road.
Would the longing to lie down
and be washed by that beauty
abate if you knew their usefulness,
how the natives ground their bulbs
for flour, how the settler’s hogs
uprooted them, grunting in gleeful
oblivion as the flowers fell?

And you – what of your rushed and
useful life? Imagine setting it all down –
papers, plans, appointments, everything

leaving only a note: “Gone to the fields
to be lovely. Be back when I’m through
with blooming.”

Even now, unneeded and uneaten, the
camas lilies gaze out above the grass
from their tender blue eyes.
Even in sleep your life will shine.
Make no mistake.
Of course
your work will always matter.
Yet, Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these.

Camas Lilies © by Lynn Ungar

]]> By: Christine http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-6081 Christine Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:59:32 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/#comment-6081 Thanks eileen! blessings to you and sunny :-) Thanks eileen! blessings to you and sunny :-)

]]> By: eileen (the dream) http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-6067 eileen (the dream) Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:35:30 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/#comment-6067 sweet dog shots! sunny has been a complete spaz with the onset of cooler temps. just when i thought he was settling down! a life of freedom - unleashed ... yes! sweet dog shots! sunny has been a complete spaz with the onset of cooler temps. just when i thought he was settling down!
a life of freedom – unleashed … yes!

]]> By: Christine http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-6055 Christine Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:10:22 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/#comment-6055 Ann, thanks so much for sharing your story, I am very moved by your courage and finding a kindred spirit in the need to "continue this path until I feel led to the next one" -- Amen. Many blessings, Christine Ann, thanks so much for sharing your story, I am very moved by your courage and finding a kindred spirit in the need to “continue this path until I feel led to the next one” — Amen. Many blessings, Christine

]]> By: Ann http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-6054 Ann Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:54:08 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/#comment-6054 Christine, I haven't checked your blog in awhile as I moved last month from Tennessee to Florida. I'm so glad I checked it tonight! Your post spoke volumes to me as right now as I am also not gainfully employed. I am taking some Sabbath time to get settled, help my six-year-old get settled in a new school and just listen to what God is telling me. My brother is having fits about this as I am also living off my savings and since my husband's death am responsible for all the income. Even so, I feel that this is where The Spirit is leading me and I plan to continue this path until I feel led to the next one. Good for you for doing the same! I loved the photos of Tune - how expressive they are! Blessings . . . Christine,

I haven’t checked your blog in awhile as I moved last month from Tennessee to Florida. I’m so glad I checked it tonight! Your post spoke volumes to me as right now as I am also not gainfully employed. I am taking some Sabbath time to get settled, help my six-year-old get settled in a new school and just listen to what God is telling me. My brother is having fits about this as I am also living off my savings and since my husband’s death am responsible for all the income. Even so, I feel that this is where The Spirit is leading me and I plan to continue this path until I feel led to the next one. Good for you for doing the same! I loved the photos of Tune – how expressive they are! Blessings . . .

]]> By: Christine http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-6052 Christine Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:06:39 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/#comment-6052 Thanks Suz, she is so soulful and a great companion. I am enjoying having a place to bring some of the fruits of my time. Thanks for the comments J, Me, and Bette. I am grateful you are all here on the journey alongside of me. Thanks Suz, she is so soulful and a great companion. I am enjoying having a place to bring some of the fruits of my time.

Thanks for the comments J, Me, and Bette. I am grateful you are all here on the journey alongside of me.

]]> By: Bette http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-6047 Bette Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:04:02 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/#comment-6047 so glad Tune enjoyed her freedom. you gave her a special gift by letting her do that. seeing these photos of her excitement was a pure delight for me as well :) so glad Tune enjoyed her freedom. you gave her a special gift by letting her do that. seeing these photos of her excitement was a pure delight for me as well :)

]]> By: Me (those northern skies) http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-6036 Me (those northern skies) Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:24:11 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/#comment-6036 “A false sense of security is the only kind there is” said Michael Meade a powerful and vivid statement “A false sense of security is the only kind there is” said Michael Meade

a powerful and vivid statement

]]> By: juniper http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-6032 juniper Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:23:21 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2007/10/14/fear-and-freedom/#comment-6032 Lovely. And so timely.... Lovely. And so timely….

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