A Fawn, A Doe, A Hunter ... 9/11 Remembered
Posted: Thursday, September 08, 2011
by Dr. Carla Goddard
I was on the phone with a friend who was sharing his teaching on the Tradition of Elemental Wizardry for a book I was working on. I kept loosing focus. I felt like I couldn’t breathe. He asked what was wrong, but even I didn’t know. I was sitting in my little office tucked away in the beautiful Maine scenery. I decided to give up working for the morning and take a walk into the meadows that were just beyond the view of office windows. That was the gift of the day. Finding solace in nature to calm the soul, connect to the spirits, and ground to the Earth.
Shaken by the sight, I fled inside to find it was not only my world that had fallen. Drawn to the sounds of the television as it revealed frame by frame a riveting horror… An arrow shooting through the sky from the skies, the cries audible, the world stood still as the towers fell.
We all remember. We remember where we were, what we were doing, and can bring back the emotional wrestling match that happened that morning and for days after. The myriad of emotional and spiritual interconnections that were made that morning shifted many.
It is within the hardest moments of life’s journey that the true spirit of what is within the soul has the moment to shine through. As we look back ten years ago, we remember the destruction, the burn, and hunter that shot the arrow. In the United States, and perhaps across the globe, the world was forever changed. In the days that followed, ‘normal’ state of affairs transcended the competitive nature that had existed. It was now ‘normal’ to cherish the grace of life. To have the perspective of miracles existing in caring, supportive community was the ‘normal’. People shared their heart and soul with total strangers. We paused to say thank you. The constrained communication ‘normally’ found with strangers now transcended into hugs and ‘good to see you’ comments. Where we held back forgiveness to loved ones now flowed as we saw them as a treasured gift. Instead of focusing on the suffering, pain, and hatred of the events, we came together to find a positive. A positive moment in the midst of a horrific and tragic event existed. We discovered we all have compassion and empathy.
Time went on and now we find ourselves ten years later reflecting back to a time that embodies a myriad of emotional and spiritual interconnectedness. Our hearts pause with the suffering and grief. Then we go on. Only ten years later we are fighting. We are competing. We are averting our eyes to our neighbors in need. We get angry over one person’s journey to find peace saying it infringes upon our grief – so what if it is their vision. We don’t ‘like’ it. We cannot find the middle aisle in the big white building where policy is made – so we return to ‘he said-she said’ mentality. But wait … we must pause and reflect … at least for the day.
So many experienced the grace, the love, the community and the miracles – they found a shift in perspective. Why did we revert back to this ‘normalcy’ of life that forgets the experience after this horrific event? Why, when ‘normal’ was not acceptable then, is ‘normal’ acceptable again? Why does tragedy, horrific calamity have to occur over and over for the peoples to simply rise to the challenge of making the simple miracle of life be the ‘normal’?
There is a crossroad that humanity has come upon. A crossroad that will determine our evolution as a human society based on the path we choose. My question, ten years later, remains. As we are all related, all interconnected – how many more ‘days’ of horrific tragedy must happen before we learn the lessons? The lessons of grace, love, community, nurturing, support, and miracles – will the world have to stop spinning again before we choose the path of peace?
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Well Carla, the world cannot stop spinning but we as people must stop and take a good look at ourselves then move on with peace and love in our hearts, good article thanks for sharing.mwah thank you for pausing to read and comment David
You wrote some graphic and grabbing word pictures here.mwah Marijo - thank you
Nice analogy. Intensify and come back to it at the conclusion. Nice article, thanks.
What do you want to do with this Story Tellers group of ours?Thank you Jack. I am not sure - as my time is divided so that writing articles is so very limited (at the moment). My writing is being spent between the multiple online classes and finishing my next book. Is in hopes that after my classes end, the AWH tour is coming to the end stretch, and my book gets wrapped up that I will have more time to return to writing stories.
I wanted to join Story Tellers as it is my first love. What are your thoughts? mwah (my wishes are heartfelt).
Wonderful job. You made me feel about as badly for the doe and fawn as of the twin towers and thousands of people. Man is inherently evil, I think. Only the teaching and grace of God has given us any chance.Teaching and grace ... hopefully application of the teaching and grace. thank you Joel mwah
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