Spiritual Tide

Sometimes I would see them walking to school - the boys in their straw hats and suspenders and the girls in their bonnets and smocks, all in bare feet. They looked like the grownups only smaller. All children are cute, but there was something about seeing a group of Amish children that would bring my heart a special joy…

It feels good to walk on mother earth. Lately, I have needed to walk barefoot across the earth – to remember. Things spin out of control so quickly now. Technology and communication have become a burden; we are bombarded with plastic fantastic distractions. The mind is fragmented, displaced, and fractured into the freeze-frames of a rapid-fire ten-second commercial…

The other day while meditating these words came to me: “You need to engage the heart. Without the heart engaged, you are spinning your wheels.” I was taken aback. In a flash I understood that all of my spiritual work over the last four years meant nothing if my heart remained closed…