Dr. Lauren Artress, Walking the Sacred Path
When we are born, we begin Walking the Sacred Path.
We are born and at certain moments in Life we are Born Again.
There are Mystical Experiences that throw us into the birth canal of life and we are reborn. Leaving that life that we knew into a whole new way of viewing ourselves and the world around us. We can fight it, resist seeing what is before us.
Eventually,we are to continue on our Sacred Path.
I was blessed with time to go to Santa Fe recently. I was surprised to find a Labyrinth laid in stone in front of St. Frances Cathedral. It is exactly laid out like the one in the picture above which is a copy of the Labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral in France.
Beginning my walk, I set an intention through prayer and began my journey.
It is always easy to begin but then there are twists and turns and it seems I might have lost my way.
Surely, I should be at the center by now. Yet, I keep the faith and follow the path before me.
Suspending my judgements and recognizing that the same thing happens in my own life when I am not getting the results as quickly as I had hoped.
When I see that in my ordinary life, I think, "Shouldn't I be further along??"
As I keep walking the Center appears.
It is representative of reaching the Divine. The Deepest level of knowing appears!
Centering the self and connecting with that which is Greater.
Divine Love!
The Rose..The flower of blossoming Divine Love, Wisdom and Grace.
The Path leads to our own Spiritual Opening.
A humbling experience for me.
Reminding me that there is a greater plan to my own personal journey. It is a vital path that I and all other pilgrims are compelled to travel.
Time in the Center to reach a new balance within.
Then it is time to take that experience and begin that journey outward.
To return to my "normal" life. I turn and begin the outward journey. Somehow I am more anxious as I walk out. I seem to feel an urgency to finish this walk.
Have I messed up?
Will I never get out of here?
Did I take a wrong turn?
All things that we face after we have encountered a Mystical Experience with the Divine.
That was nice and all but I have to get back now to my "real" life.
Then, I am reminded that it is all a Divine Experience.
I should not rush getting back to my "real" life because the journey IS my "real" life.
A Pilgrimage.
This particular walk, I walked alone.
