Judith is the author of The Sacred Women’s Circle series,
romantic fiction that honors spiritual practices that nourish the soul and
celebrates the journey from relationship to romance.
You
may remember at the end of last week’s post I said I’d tell you a story about a
Grackle. Here’s the story:
In 2014 when I attended
the Desert Dreams Writers conference, a bird kept visiting my room. Well, not
actually in my room, but it sat on the railing outside my room. My friend,
Lois, told me it was a Grackle. Now Grackles are big and dark, resembling a
crow or raven if you’ve never seen one. Being someone who believes that animals
(including birds, reptiles, insects) bear messages, I looked up Grackle in Ted
Andrew’s Animal Speak book.
Fast forward to 2017. I’m
again in Arizona attending the Desert Dreams Writers’ Conference where I’m not
only presenting a workshop but also participating in the Readers’ Experience.
(More on that later). One of the things I needed for my “Book Club” was a stash
of desert quartz. My friend, Lois, had some she was willing to share.
The day was Hot
(especially to my Pacific Northwest self). We gathered the desert quartz but
had another task to perform before returning to air conditioned comfort.
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| Grackle - we put nuts out so I could take pictures |
Three large black birds
sat on tree limbs a few feet away and were chattering away as if giving us
advice on how to go about our task. At one point I turned towards them and had a
‘conversation’ with them, assuring them we would finish quickly and leave them
alone, reminding them that we are all part of the larger circle of life, etc.
So out came Ted Andrews’
book as I refreshed my memory as to their significance.
What you don’t know
unless you know me personally is that when I arrived in Arizona a couple of
days earlier I was struggling with a conundrum of difficulties. I’d been
obsessively talking about the challenges in my life. I’m sure my friends were
sick of me chattering on and on about it—but even though I knew I was repeating
myself off I’d go again.
Grackle=overcoming
excess and emotional life congestion.
We laughed out loud when I read this question.
Are
we simple rehashing and talking about them without doing anything to correct
the emotional situations of our life?
There and then I made a
plan to figure out how to correct the problem and vowed I would not talk about
it unless it was in the form of a solution. I’m not going to tell you an answer
immediately appeared but as I write this, not only did it appear it has been
implemented.
Seeking answers in innovative
ways can solve problems in a more rapid and satisfying manner than just
bemoaning the fact that there is a problem and we don’t have a ready answer.
Next week I’ll share a
couple of ways I search ‘outside the box’ for the keys to solving sticky and
sometimes just ordinary issues.
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