DISTANCE

It is easy to believe that the concept of Distance is meant to be understood in geographic terms, as in the Distance between points A and B. What is the Distance between the north and south poles? What is the Distance between your house and your place of work?

But . . . what is the Distance between your breaths? Between the time you first realized that one day your mortal body would die, and the time that you accepted the realization? What was that Distance?

What is the Distance between the time that you understood a behavior to be unsatisfactory and the time that you correct the behavior? What is that Distance? Is that Distance growing smaller as you gain wisdom and compassion?

What is the Distance between a cry for help 
and a long, circular, guilt-bloated response? 

What is the Distance between a cry for help 
and a blind, compassionate and immediate response? 

How do those Distances compare?

What is the Distance between You and Yourself?  

Whatever the Distance, it closes at the speed of Love.

Blessed Be This day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me

from the other side of the veil.

March 20, 2014

Photo by David Becker on Unsplash