All You Can See

We're a very head-based culture. Truthfully, I don't think that's completely a bad thing. There's a lot of good that comes from head knowledge. The problem is we forget to acknowledge that it isn't the only kind of knowledge. When we don't acknowledge all knowledge, we can't ever receive all truth. 

We have begun to trust our head logic so much that if we can't see it, then there is likely no truth in it. And the same goes for ourselves. We lose hope for our future and our dreams because what we desire doesn't line up with what we can see. 

I think it's time we begin to honor other kinds of knowledge. In many other cultures, there is a respect for the spiritual, intuitive kind of knowledge. We've lost that. We've shifted our belief that those ways of thinking no longer serve anyone; they're childish. My response to that is: Exactly!

I want the childlike belief and approach to life, the present, awe-struck, hopeful, joy-filled kind of life. Frankly, the way we're doing life sucks. We're consistently living in either the past or the future; we're skeptical of everyone and everything we come in contact with; we're guarded, frustrated, and stuck. 

I choose to believe in the unseen. I refuse to care about whether or not I'm tricked. I trust the spiritual part of me as much as any other part of me that was created. When I rest in this place, I experience the real freedom. Because newsflash, what we're experiencing in the "land of the free" isn't exactly freedom. I'm talking about a lot of people are not free, but it has to change. We have to try a new way of doing things.

What we've been doing isn't working. I don't want to teach my child to be like us; it just isn't what I want for my family. I want better. I want lots of laughing. I want wisdom, not fear. I want joy, not bitterness. I want us to know how to come together, especially about the things we disagree with most, and still walk away in love. I want us to be able to hear one another. I want much more than what most of us walk in now. 

And I truly believe if you're not okay, then I'm not okay either. We have to figure out how to help each other be okay. I think it starts with changing the way we see. I think it starts with acceding the kind of knowledge we all know is there anyway. I think it starts with trusting in what we fcannot see. 

Photo Story: This photo was taken on a drive a few weeks ago. I needed to let go of something, and I just wasn't sure how. The problem was my vision. When I drive, I'm forced to physically look outside myself, so that's what I do sometimes. In the middle of my drive, I saw these two beautiful horses standing perfectly still. I pulled over and just watched them watch me for a few minutes. In those few little moments, something came off of me a little bit. My vision cleared up a little bit, and I knew that if I could get my vision back on the unseen, I could find my hope again.