ONE SEASON PASSES AND ANOTHER BEGINS

The mystery of how things change

Future Publishing / Contributor

Tomorrow I go to New Mexico, then Oregon. I will end the trip with a talk in Baltimore and then finit! Politically, I will have said my piece. I’ll have done all that I can do this political season to suggest to the American people that there might be a better way.

Now for healing, grieving, processing, forgiving, and moving on to the next chapter of life. In May I have a book coming out, which I wrote two years ago and then asked my publisher to please delay publishing while I went off to run for President. Actually that was my request to them about the same book when I ran in 2020! Deep thanks to Harper San Francisco for their patience and understanding.

My last campaign event will be April 21st, and the book will be published on May 7. I do wish, as I’m sure they do as well, that we had a bit more time to transition from my political to my spiritual offerings. But such schedules work the way they work, so we have seventeen days to switch from one part of the brain to the other…

Maybe it’s my Gemini ascendant that’s responsible for the way I go back and forth between two different mental operating systems. In my mind they’re not contradictory, however. As Martin Luther King said, “The desegregation of the American South is the political externalization of the goal of the civil rights movement, but the ultimate goal is the establishment of the beloved community.” He was a movement leader and also a Baptist preacher, saying it was “time to inject a new dimension of love into human civilization.” He, like Mahatma Gandhi before him, urged inner as well as outer change. By both realms of life I am intrigued, and to both I’m equally devoted. We need horizontal change that transforms our politics and vertical change that transforms our souls.

The universe is recalibrating itself in all of us, giving rise to new portals of possibility. If we’re alert, we see changes in both our circumstances and in ourselves. But there is a mystery to change and we should respect it. Sometimes we have to let go of what is no longer ours in order to receive what is calling to us now.

The French philosopher Blaize Pascal said “all the world’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Only in silence can we hear the whispers of destiny. We receive the deeper answers in life when we take the time to ask deeper questions.

All of us would do well to ask ourselves such things as this…

What in your life is ending, and what is trying to begin? Are you seeing beyond appearances, to recognize the larger patterns at work in your life?

What needs to be laid down, and what needs to be embraced? What needs to be atoned for, and what needs to be forgiven?

What season of your life is passing away, and what season is preparing to dawn? Are you willing to see how deeply life is working through you, and stand in awe before forces so much greater than yourself?

There was such a mystical hush during the eclipse on Monday, reminding me of when our electronics are on the fritz and we turn everything off for a few seconds to let the system reset itself. Surely the world is trying to do that. We are trying to change. We are trying to renew ourselves. One season passes and another now begins.