When I began working toward Ministering to others, I didn't know that is where my path was leading. In the first weeks of a course called 'world service order training' one of my mentors, a man closer to Master than I have ever known, said the more you work toward self mastery the more you will be tested. Each weekend I spent that year travelling back and forth to my 'classroom' 300 miles away brought a different challenge. A couple flat tires, an extended illness when I had to give a workshop that couldnt be cancelled, failed brakes the day I was due to leave-numerous 'little' things and I always heard his words echo as I met those challenges and made it anyway.
Years of training and multiple challenges later, I can add 'Reverend Kristyne' to my resume. And in just weeks of earning the title, the challenges have gotten greater. A man I dearly love showed his true colours and I allowed him to pass quietly and peacefully from my life rather than play into his continuing drama. The man that has been my life partner witnessed a friends violent death and ministering to him has been another test. My father has been diagnosed with a second skin cancer, and doesn't share his pain or prognosis, and so I offer loving support, continued healing, light and prayer. My daughter, finally independent and working in service to others (a cardiac intensive care nurse) has moved home temporarily because of a serious knee injury, is non ambulatory and unable to work, and had a roommate that has become combative and threatening. One of my drumming mentors awaits a lung transplant and can barely lift her head from the pillow. Another friends life partner slowly slips away in hospice.
I don't write this in anguish or despair. I write this because through all of it, I realize how far I have travelled. From one that would have worried and carried all this with fear, to one that understands the transient nature of it. The importance of my actions through it, rather than re-acting to it. The power loving everything that's happening gives me and allows me to give to others. The knowing how rich every moment of life is.
I am truly blessed. In the best moments and the seemingly worst I remember my grandmother, her voice saying "This too shall pass." I know each situation will, as each of us will, and all that will be remembered is the love we were able to give. I cherish sharing. I cherish touching those I am able to touch and being touched by them. That includes each of you, TT team. Whether I agree or disagree with what we share here, we are connected and we all know it. How special is that!
How truly divine we are as mortal and immortal. I hope I am learning my lessons well. What I know is my heart gets wider with every waking day and I am taking my place as a point of light upon this Christed Light grid we find ourselves travelling upon. Stand with me strong and bright and allow it to spread like wildfire - those in the darkness need us desperately. Namaste. kristyne
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Dear Kristyne,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts...and yourself.The people here and there are all the better for you presence. Bless you,bless us everyone! Love,Mary
Just such a wonderful affirmation for me this day. Thank you and all Love!
And well done. Ajo!
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Thank you Onesong, for sharing your journey beyond suffering...That of the Fullness of Form and the Freedom of Emptiness.
May we all walk with such intent and balance.
Tricia
So Be It!
It is what it is, and still,
all is well.
I feel a bit unworthy for I have not nearly been tried to this extent,
so I join with you in affirmation of the truth you reveal in your life.
Love and Light, Chris
Chris,
Another thing my grandmother told me once...
when we ask in prayer for strength, we will always be tested.
I don't ask to be strong, I ask to do the work for which I was sent here. To understand that all comes through the hands of Creation not my own hands even when my hands are the instruments of that Creation. I ask that when I am tempered by the fire, that like fine metal I withstand the heat and alchemically am transformed and refined in the process.
I've learned that each test is really just a lesson we need for our Ascension, our At-one-ment, and that it isn't the test but how we respond to it that gives us some sense of measuring where we are on the way. Many blessings.
kristyne
p.s. almost 6am and i'm off to work or i might prattle on a bit more! lol