RELATIONSHIPS. PART ONE. A SPIRITS MESSAGE :)

"I FOUND HIM WHOM MY SOUL LOVES AND I HOLD HIM,AND WOULD NOT LET HIM GO." SONG OF SOLOMON. 3:4.

ONLY WHEN WE ARE ABLE TO LET GO OF EVERYTHING WITHIN US,ALL DESIRE TO SEE,TO KNOW,TASTE AND EXPERIENCE THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND THE GODDESS ALMIGHTY,THE HOLY SPIRIT,DO WE TRULY BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE THAT PRESENCE WITH OVERWHELMING CONVICTION AND REALITY THAT REVOLUTIONIZES OUR ENTIRE INNER-LIFE.

WITHOUT THE SOLITUDE OF HEART,THE INTIMACY OF RELATIONSHIPS,FRIENDSHIP AND COMMUNITY LIFE CANNOT BE CREATIVE.
WITHOUT THE SOLITUDE OF HEART OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS EASILY BECOMES NEEDY AND GREEDY,STICKY AND CLINGING,DEPENDENT AND SENTIMENTAL,EXPLOITATIVE AND PARASITIC.

THE MYSTERY OF LOVE IS THAT IT PROTECTS AND RESPECTS THE ALONENESS OF THE OTHER AND CREATES THE FREE SPACE WHERE WE CAN CONVERT THIS LONELINESS INTO A SOLITUDE THAT CAN BE SHARED.
IN THIS SOLITUDE WE CAN STRENGTHEN EACH OTHER BY MUTUAL RESPECT,BY CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF EACH OTHERS INDIVIDUALITY,BY OUR OBEDIENT DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHERS PRIVACY AND BY A REVERENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE SACREDNESS OF THE HUMAN HEART.

WHEN WE LEARN NOT TO CLING TO RELATIONSHIPS,WHEN WE ARE FREE OF LOSING ONE ANOTHER,THEN WE BEGIN THE TRUE MEANING OF INTIMACY,WHICH RESPECTS THE SPACE AROUND ANOTHER.
THE PERIMETER OF THIS SPACE IS NOT A FINE LINE BETWEEN DISTANCE AND CLOSENESS,BUT A FIELD OF MOVEMENT IN WHICH THE QUESTION OF WHETHER WE ARE CLOSE OR DISTANT IS NOT THE GUIDING QUESTION.

SING AND DANCE TOGETHER AND BE JOYOUS,BUT LET EACH OTHER BE ALONE,EVEN AS THE STRINGS OF THE LUTE ARE ALONE,THEY QUIVER WITH THE SAME MUSIC.

STAND TOGETHER,YET NOT TO NEAR TOGETHER,FOR THE PILLARS OF THE TEMPLE STAND APART AND THE OAK AND THE CYPRESS GROW NOT IN EACH OTHERS SHADE.

THE STICKING POINT FOR MOST IS THIS FEAR STEMS FROM WOUNDS,FOR WOUNDED AND DAMAGED ARE MOST MORTALS,WHETHER IT BE FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA,UNSATISFACTORY RELATIONSHIPS OR MARRIAGE,WHETHER THE ARE WOUNDS IN THE RECESS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS,THEY ALL BLIGHT THE FREEDOM IN RELATIONSHIPS.
THESE WOUNDS OFTEN CAUSE ONE ANOTHER TO MAKE IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS ON OTHERS,DEMANDS WHICH TRAP THEM IN OUR PRECONCEIVED EXPECTATION OF THEM AND MAKE THEM FEEL A FAILURE WHEN THEY CANNOT MEET OUR DEMANDS.
THEIR PERSONAL SPACE BECOMES ERODED,AND THE WE FEEL LET DOWN,HURT AND REJECTED.
OBVIOUSLY,THE MORE WHOLE WE ARE IN OURSELVES,THE MORE SPACE WE CAN AFFORD TO GIVE OTHERS,BUT ULTIMATELY,GOD AND THE GODDESS ALMIGHTY,THE HOLY SPIRIT ALONE ARE FREE ENOUGH,ENOUGH TO OFFER US A FEARLESS SPACE.

UPON HIS RESURRECTION,YESHUA APPEARED TO HIS LOVE MIRIAM MAGDALENA AND SHE RAN TO HIM HE CALLED,"DO NOT CLING TO ME MIRIAM",HIS CALL WAS TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF A RELATIONSHIP BASED NOT ON HUMAN TOGETHERNESS,BUT ON A COVENANT IN WHICH HE DANCES WITH US AND DANCING NEEDS SPACE.
NEWLY BURST FROM THE TOMB IN AN EXPLOSION OF RESURRECTION JOY,THE LORD CALLS OUT TO SHARE IS RESURRECTION FREEDOM.

"DON'T CLING,DANCE HE CALLS TO US,FOR I AM THE LORD OF THE DANCE,THE DANCING GOD.
THROW OF YOUR GRAVE CLOTHES OF FEAR,AND COME FORTH FROM YOUR PARTICULAR TOMB,DON'T LAY HOLD OF ME AS A POSSESSION TO BE GRASPED."

YET THAT IS THE TRAGIC PARADOX,LOVE THAT IS OFFERED TO MAKE PEOPLE FREE,IS SO OVERPOWERING THAT IT IS QUICKLY ENCASED AND THEREBY ROBS PEOPLE OF THE VERY FREEDOM IT WAS DESTINED TO SECURE.

STEP OUT INTO SPACE,"HE CALLS",AND DANCE THE DANCE OF TRUE INTIMACY.

DANCE THERE WHEREVER YOU MAY BE,"I AM THE LORD OF THE DANCE",SAID HE,"AND I'LL LEAD YOU ALL WHEREVER YOU MAY BE,AND I'LL LEAD YOU ALL IN THE DANCE",SAID HE.

SAN DOM DE NANTA VAN SAN NANTESS ESTANTO PEEPS?