Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “plain/plane.” Use one, use ’em both, bonus points if you get ’em both in your post. Have fun!
I haven’t flown with my husband David as pilot since that first flight a while back when I felt so sick I almost threw up in spite of Dramamine. Now, I have a new Rx waiting and ginger candy, but I’m waiting for the right time with perfect weather and scheduling. I like keeping my feet on the ground and can’t think too much about being way up high in a tiny plane. It’s the kind of thing that makes me pray hard for safety.
Is praying a form of reaching out to another plane of existence? Or is God right here with us? It’s another plane with connections, I think. I’m thinking right this minute of Jesus praying for God to take the cup of torturous pain away from him and then turning his will over to God, trusting. Letting go. Letting God take care of him.
I was nudged to add this clip of Ted Neeley (at about 80 years old) singing the Gethsemane song from Jesus Christ Superstar. The movie playing in the background is the 1973 version that planted seeds in my agnostic brain many years ago.
Letting go has never been easy for me. It’s never been plain and simple. Most things I let go of have claw marks. Let it go, but not quite. Take it back again. Worry about it some more, then let it go again.
But I don’t think I’ll ever jump out of a plane. Unless it’s on fire and we’re over water. But who wants to think about that? Not me! I’d rather think of glimpses of another plane of existence we sometimes get where the veil is thin. That happens in the mountains or at the ocean – places where we can see and feel the vastness of creation.
I’m hoping we’ll go to the beach tomorrow which is Saturday when you’re reading this. It’s so weird to live 15 or 30 minutes from the beach and rarely go. Part of that is that we take it for granted. But we’re coming up on the season when it will be crowded, especially the beach that’s 15 minutes away. I’m looking forward to going to the mountains in a few weeks. Looking for those places where the veil is thin. But then, we can also create those places of connection with intention…. or just live in the moment and enjoy this side of the veil. Lots to enjoy as long as we don’t watch much bad news. But then maybe Nature is medicine for that.
Well, enough rambling with words. A picture is worth a thousand words.
The gallery starts with some of my friends from Blueberry Lane Farm Animal Sanctuary who help me be grounded. Then we have nature photos from the neighborhood. Click each photo to see the entire image.
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