I am off today to a place of wonder. To a place where love fills every molecule. Where the human spirit shimmers in the light of our shared recognition of the possibility of life  radiating with joy beyond the pale of our comfort zones. I am off to a place where miracles happen in every breath, where miracles unfold in every tear and quiet word and heartfelt sharing.

I am off to coach for the next five days in the Choices seminar room. It is one of my favourite places to be. To be present. To be aware. To be connected to a circle of love and caring, a circle that embodies all that is magnificent in our human condition, all that is light and dark, hope and despair, joy and sorrow and filled with Love. Always Love.

These are intense days. Long and hard. Days of tears and laughter. Of vulnerable spirits learning to trust in the process of unveiling their journey to this place where Love shimmers in joyful abandon for all to see and witness and experience and breath into and become. These are days of witnessing the careful unwrapping of the gifts of our birth. Those gifts that we carry with us into life and then quickly tuck away lest someone see the beauty and the wonder of who we truly are and make less of the gift of our magnificence.

These are the days of awe. Of watching a group of people walk timidly, angrily, confidently, curiously, confusedly, hesitantly, defiantly, stumblingly into the training room on Wednesday afternoon, “show me the beef” meters on high, resistance shields on full alert. And then, over the ensuing days, to witness the slow deconstruct of walls of self-preservation, the painful unfolding of broken dreams and wounded hearts filling up with wonder, amazement, joy and elation.

Ah yes, frozen hearts whisper as they begin to thaw. This is what it means to feel connected, one with, one of a circle of my fellow human beings exploring our human condition and finding ourselves on the other side of empty. Ah yes, this is love.

I am off today to give back that which I received six and a half years ago when I first stepped into the training room, my attitude cocky, the walls of my comfort zone firmly holding me in place to that space where I fiercely held onto all I thought I knew about being human, about being free, about being me.

I had no idea.

No idea of what wonder and joy awaited when I let go of my knowing and gave into the unknown possibilities beyond my firm belief that I had ‘done the work’, roto-rootered through my psyche enough times that I didn’t need to do it again, or do it any other way than how I’d done it to date.

Ah yes. I was so convinced of my own rightness, my own journey I’d designed out of the path as the singular way to get to where I wanted to be, needed to be to live this one, precious wild life in the rapture of now.

I had no idea.

There are a thousand paths to living wholeheartedly present in the moment of now. To living life beyond my wildest imaginings. My path is richer for the exploration of all its deep and dark alleyways and I am lighter for the discovery of simpler more loving ways to get to where I want to be.

I am so blessed.

So incredibly grateful that my friend Nan gifted me the experience of being part of that circle of Love in April 2006.

I am so blessed.

And so, I return, as often as I can, I return to the seminar room to give back, to be part of making a difference in the lives of others. To be part of the circle, to be in that room where miracles happen on every breath, with every heart breaking open to the wonder and beauty and truth of our shared human condition — we are beings of light radiantly human in all our magnificence.

I am so blessed.

I will be posting over the next five days — because posting every day is my commitment to this place. But, my posts may be shorter than normal. Yes! More is not necessarily better and Less is sometimes best.

I leave you today with a poster I made for a talk I’m giving at DesigNite at Mount Royal University tomorrow night — Life is a series of teachable moments. What will you learn?  May you live in that place where you discover within every breath the truth of your human condition — You are magnificent. You are Love.