"Rise", a song and message from the mountains

This morning I was driving north in Tucson (I'm on a biz trip here), which takes you straight at the south face of the Santa Catalina mountains, an east-west wall of rock that rises suddenly from the city flats.  Layers of rosy raw granite cut across its face at angles steeper than 45 degrees, giving the range a peachy blush.  From closer up, you see it's dotted with midnight blue pockets of deep shadow from the striking crags and rock towers decorating the steep sides.  A dark green dusting of conifers on top gives way to a sparse sprinkling of lighter green cacti where they can catch, condensing suddently into a narrow, bright green ribbon at the very base, where civilization has staked its territory with automatic sprinkler systems.

How does a wall of rock rise so sharply like that, with the layers pointing up and to the east, I wondered. I mused my way thru imagining plates of rock pushing against each other to lift this massive wall.  Before long, I decided to ask the Universe my real question:  why are these mountains so grabbing my attention?  After hiking in the foothill canyons earlier this week, they seemed impossibly tall.  Impossibly high.

In my mind's eye, I saw/felt the flat Tucson plain.  Then these mountains rose up before me as if pulled up out of the flats on strings.  (No, this is not geologically accurate, but spiritually meaningful: read on.)  "Rise!" I heard.  "Rise to the glory of God!"  The feeling was electric and expansive.  I played with the phrase and it became a rhythmic song.  Rise, 2, 3, 4, Rise (1) to the (2 and) glory of (3-and-a/triplet) God (4).  After a few verses, "I choose to" popped in on the 2-3-4, and it grew into a song.

Can you feel it?  ...Rise. 

Raise yourself up. 

Raise yourself up to glorify your potential, to glorify the divine, Source, the source of your limitless potential.  How else can you fully honor all you can do and be?

Rise towards your potential. Rise, like a seedling naturally reaches to the sun.  Not just for the fun of it (though it should be lots of fun).  Not just for the money of it (though it should be plenty abundant), but simply because reaching to express your potential is how you can honor the divine and say, "Yes!"  "Yes, I can!"  "Yes, thank you for this glorious potential within me!"  "Yes!"

For me right now, as I journey to the desert southwest, my practice and business are hanging in a beautiful stillpoint.  I have a unique opportunity to significantly expand my ability to help healers, intuitives, and creatives with a huge connection to Source (a connection that can really knock you around if you don't know how to manage and honor it) so you can know and love who you are and do what you came here to do -- really well and easily.  Moving forward from this stillpoint feels really scary!  Though I also sense it is totally possible and appropriate.  This morning's insight from the mountains gives me an inspiring reason to leap forward, regardless of my fears and worries about logistics and expenses.  It gives me the healing gift of taking me beyond my choices so I can feel as if I already have expanded and upraised myself. My earlier concerns and worries feel like silly trifles before the glorious, skyward reach of the Santa Catalinas and the inspired feeling of potential they give me.

What expansive step are you afraid of right now?  You know your mind can think of the most brilliant reasons why not, but you don't have to believe those fear-based thoughts.  What does your heart say?  And would it glorify your Potential for you to step forward right now?  If so, then how can you do that?  What is the first step? 

I challenge you to do one thing today to move forward, to rise into your potential, toward the full glory of the divine within you and the full being that you are.  Rise like the mountains!

Comments

[Sprinkler Systems Ventura]

Thank you for those powerful words, will certainly find a way to move forward, improve myself and better my life.