PERSEVERANCE

2014, COURAGE, INTENTION, PATIENCE

JULY 3, 2014

 

What is that quality that thrums in your chest, dampening your wildness, naysaying your need to put down a thing when it challenges the very fabric of everything that you believe that you Are?  

It is Perseverance, and if you have wisdom and experience, it is plied with Patience and far seeing.  It whispers to you:  “Stay a bit longer and see what you will see.”  

Perseverance does not guarantee your idea of success; it does not guarantee happiness or best outcomes.  It does not guarantee that all involved will be served in the highest or best way or that all of its means will be applied and adapted for meekness and kind trials.  

It means that Perseverance—thought of in terms of steadfast heart, mind and will—pays its co-creator as a hard and colorful road pays its traveler—in ways that cannot be bartered for in any other exchange.

Perseverance is the quality similar to that which is spoken in Christian marriage vows:  for better or worse.  It means following to the end, that goal which you set forth for yourself, despite the transient obstacles and their transient challenges.  It means that you will stay connected to Wisdom while being seduced by the emotions of right, wrong, failure, hopelessness, and mistaken roadways.

Even if the path you take shows itself to be false or is usurped by a higher or better path or a brighter goal, the energy of Perseverance is the master that pays out to the dedicated.  You may believe that you seek a degree as a doctor, but as you pursue the difficult courses, you decide you will become a veterinarian: your Perseverance leads you to an outcome that you did not or could not see before you reached the first bend in that stream.

Perseverance can seem to be a dogged master: the man who will not learn new ways loses his business to competitors: the carpenter who perseveres with penury rather than reason loses his home to high winds; the man who perseveres as if those around him are less holds himself free from true love.  These conditions are Perseverance as filtered through the flaws of character.

“He walked every day to the chapel, no matter the weather or his health.”  Consider this statement.  Is this a man of faith and fortitude, applying Perseverance, or is this a man whose Perseverance serves his ego—in that he wishes to appear as a man of faith and fortitude—that is, being seen as such is more important than being so?

“She stitches a quilt by hand for every child born anew in the village—a lovely sentiment, but so much wiser if she would use a machine . . .”  The woman in question could indeed create these quilts faster and with less trial to her body if she stitched them with a machine.  As they are gifts created and given in love, she feels and believes that creating them as she does, one stitch at a time in the slow rhythm of needle and master, the conduit of co-creation is stronger (though she might not express it that way).  Her Perseverance to continue in meaningful (for her) methodology feeds the highest manifestation of creative energy, honoring her creations; what sacrifices of time and personal energies she gives to her labors of love are hers alone to determine.

What if this maker of quilts continues past the time when her body has told her to stop, or past the time when her co-creativity urges tell her to move on to other projects?  She might be held in place by tradition, the repetition of social beliefs; pride: “I alone am the maker of these quilts and while no longer inspired, I must continue to create them, even if the essential spark of love in them is absent”; and fear: “I have done this so long I don’t know if there is anything else for me.”  This is an example of allowing oneself to hide behind the idea of Perseverance.

“I must do this thing that no other can do.  Only me.  I must Persevere despite my many obstacles and the lack of appreciation by others for my trials.”  This, children, is Perseverance tempered by the quality of martyrism.  Compare that idea with this one next.

A young widow is left alone to raise her physically and mentally disabled child.  She must do this thing that no other can do.  Only her.  There is some help in the community, but she must Persevere despite her many obstacles and the lack of appreciation for her role.  As her daughter grows and the mother attempts to socialize her in the community, the pair experience much hypocrisy, coldness, and rejection.  The mother’s Perseverance pays her only in the means of her daughter’s continued physical survival, and while she knows more challenge and hardship than the average person, she takes her small happiness where she can.

Every quality and conduit has its master.  Every sunset viewed by different eyes is a different sunset.  When you apply Perseverance in your Life, are you blindly crating it into a dogma, keeping it a small bud in a tight container to please the sensibilities of your ego?  Do you use Perseverance for survival?  What about creativity and growth?

Will you allow Perseverance to lead you upward?  Will you whisper to Great All of your heart, attune this to your will, and take Perseverance as your mate?  Will you master your Fate with Perseverance at your helm, and glory at the stars that wheel above you as you travel?

Only a coward needs a map when all the aspects of Divine Will have been gathered and mated together.  Perseverance is one of those giants.  Its Light is there in you.  Call it forward, unhobbled and whole.  Let it shine bright at your bow.

 

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.     

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