Testimonials

It's happening! An almost unnoticeable shift from the facade of fear giving way to authenticity of expression sneaked up on my awareness during these two months of participating in The Echo.

In December, chose Echo #9, Creative Inspiration and Expression, with a certainty that the book I was meant to write had already been written and published. Literally everything in my life conspired to hold me back from putting in the time to accomplish and sustain that intention: my dog's passing, my daughter's repeated falls, the 30-year-old printer giving up the ghost, a remodeling project that's been lagging for 2 years, etc.

In January, I chose Echo #12, Happiness and Contentment, just to get some breathing room and relief from the pressure of planning and a lifetime program of “if-it’s-to-be-it’s-up-to-me” style of looking ahead or in the rearview mirror, trying to control and manage outcomes for myself and everyone around me.

I've actually felt the waves of The Echo radiating out, amplifying and returning to their source, my own beautiful heart. Oftentimes, a spontaneous offering for family, friends, or the world population in general, will swell like waves in the ocean. At other times, I feel the heat of a fire that blazes high. But much of the time I simply catch a whiff of pure presence or "knowing." It's subtle, yet reassuring for me with the "devotion of the observant" that is who I truly am, to acknowledge the moment for what it is, to feel satisfied of its rightness, and to let it go.

As Cornelius has repeatedly said, there are so many instances of this happening that I almost don’t want to enumerate them. Each denotes a marker, but is less significant in and of itself than is the overall shift within my way of being. I would not have imagined before now that it was possible for me to shed the weight of a burden carried for more than 8 decades. It is a miracle for which I am eternally grateful.