Comforting Routines

These are difficult times. In some ways, as our weeks of lockdown continue I think it is getting more challenging. Although there is some relief now in the necessary restrictions for our wellbeing, even the most optimistic among us may be feeling a little weary with it all, and concerns about what will happen in the future, and will we ever be able to travel freely again? creep in.

Whilst doing my best to live in the Eternal Now, I have been thinking about the comfort of the regular routines of our daily lives, and how helpful it is to have these, and even more so when working from home. Children feel comforted and secure when there is a daily pattern in their lives, which is only different in holiday times and for most of us adults this is probably the same.

Even though spiritual teachers tell us that time is an illusion, and does not exist in the spirit world in the way we know it on earth, we are living in a physical world and our bodies have physical routines - times to wake up, times to sleep, times to eat etc. I love the fact that White Eagle has given us a routine, a daily ritual if you like, for our spiritual service, which somehow brings the two worlds together. At 3,6,9 and 12 he advises us to pause for a few moments, and be in the consiousness of the light, doing our best to send it out into the world in positive Star thoughts. With more time in the quietness of my home, this routine has become even more significant, and, yes, a comforting part of my life.

In a beautiful teaching I have been reading recently he says 'Everything you do daily is a form of ritual, even to the simple things like clothing your body, washing and dressing, eating, going to work....You can make ritual in your life so perfect, so harmonious, that you are creating yourself as a channel for the light of the Christ spirit, so that you are drawing into your aura angelic beings who will serve through you. They will also serve you. This is why it is good and wise to live calmly and tranquilly.'