As women, we are very familiar with mystery-what man has not exclaimed of this of us-yet we are often challenged to embrace the ecstacy of our mystery in our lives as women. We may revel in the magic and miracle of a body that can turn blood into milk and create from the union of two cells the complexity of a human being. But what to do about the power in our mystery that in times past has made us feared, even thought to be dangerous? Students of history may remember that to be a healer, midwife, or powerful woman in the middle ages could be dangerous, with communities where women were killed simply for using their powers of transformation. Even though generations have come and gone since, patterns of energy carry on through the generations until consciously transformed. Sometimes, the emotions that we feel within us are from a time not our own, and are simply presenting themselves not in the truth of what is so now, but in request of our transforming them for now.

We live in times most exciting, where what we do not know is calling to be embraced by not only scientists as the good news, but by all of us as well. No matter our level of current mastery, we are being asked to embrace even more of who we are, especially the magical mystery of our infinity and divinity. When we embrace our unknown and mystery as the good news, expand through an active relationship with our spirit and soul, and share our experiences with others, we illuminate magic and miracles not yet known. As the scientists pointed out, what we don’t know yet may be what saves us from what we know now. Today, consider meeting what you do not know, understand, or have confusion around, as your invitation to greet it instead with awe, curiosity, and excitement, to make love with the mystery of your being and let your ecstacy change the world!

So, I packed up our puppy from Chicago-another story of how what was true for my spirit and soul won out over the protests of Logical and Sensible-and played hooky from my shoulds of the day. I brought along my ipod so as to be able to play my music while driving (those of you who have/had teenagers know how rarely you get to play your own music uncontested). It felt good to be long-distance driving as it is one of my ways to meditate, perhaps because while my chatty-cathy mind is busy driving, my softer-voiced mind becomes more easily heard and felt by me.

The town of Easthampton is reached by driving over Mt. Tom, a mini-mountain by standards other than coastal new england, and beautiful to drive over with it’s steep road up and down the edge of the mountain and the town so very small below. I picked up the lamp, met an artist who I have appreciated for years, and as we compared notes on the music our daughters loved to listen to, I felt at home and at ease, even though I had just met this women/artist and had driven to this town for the first time. I felt at home through the choice to honor and now enjoy, in a way small and still large, what I needed in the midst of my very busy and responsible life ….an adventure that touched my heart and soul.

So what does this tale of playing hookey from my to-do list have to do with divinity? Simple… that divinity is found not only in the cathedrals and temples ancient, it is also found in the mountains and meetings local, in the spontaneous choice to create an adventure out of an errand vs simply checking it off my to-do list. Divinity is honoring our spirit and soul’s need for breathing room and expression in our daily lives, even if the taskmasters of logic and duty tsk-tsk us for doing so. Divinity is not a place we go to; she is found in the “how” of our daily routines, in our choice to not become so unconscious in our to-do list that we forget that what we do/get done is not who we truly are or what the gift of a life human is about.

All beings who live on this earth these days have chosen the courageous act of living divinity through the duties, trials, and ecstacy of our daily humanity. Our times are asking that we are all live our divinity even more through living our humanity. No longer is the sacred split off from the secular…we are being asked to honor the sacred in the daily and in the daily, the sacred. To do so is to become even more clear that there are no small acts, simply those that we bring our awareness to and those we do not. And so, in this time of changing norms and direction, perhaps in playing hooky from your logic and to-do list in order to honor the whisper of the voice of an adventure and the mysterious, you are simply honoring the divine in your humanity…and that is go(0)d.

It is now officially springtime and here in new england we get excited about up-coming warmer temperatures, trees budding and then blooming with flowers and then leaves, and the sweet enjoyment of our gardens, be they vegetable or flower in nature. We have pored over seed and flower catelogues during the days of snow and cold, looking foward to the months when we eagerly are the hands that co-create beauty and pleasure around us. Our season of warmth and growth is shorter than some, granting us perhaps the grace to more consciously appreciate the pleasure of days warm and the plant kingdom in full regalia.

Much as we consciously choose what we desire to have surround us, choosing what we plant in our gardens, our landscapes, our homes, so we choose- consciously or not-what we plant in our lives each and everyday. By consciously choosing to plant joy, love, ease, and faith in my daily life, my mind is kept busy with these as it’s to-do list, allowing the fertile creativity of the divine grace of my life to grow and tend to the flowers and fruits of that which I have chosen to seed. As women, we know this to be true and deep within us is all we need to enjoy the sacred temple of daily life as our garden. Our privilege-and responsibility- as women is to consciously choose what we grow with our energy, in infinite creativity and grace through the Divine.

So if deep within us is all that we need to know and we are powerful creative forces on behalf of the divine, then how do we use our grace in our lives and on behalf of our world? Simply put, ask yourself! Your answers lie within you, in union with that which life delivers to you, as we are co-creators with the Divine. This is why meditation-however you do so-is essential to being able to live your true life, your journey, your grace as a woman. Even our physical bodies are made to generate, create, and sustain from within ourselves and so our deepest knowing begins with knowing what is true within ourselves, first.

In my next radio show, we will be talking about grace, meditation, and the blessings of the challenges of daily life, using this all for living more consciously, compassionately, and co-creatively in our destiny as a woman. Join me on Friday March 27th at 1 pm EST at www.blogtalkradio.com/JaiKaur. Share your questions and wisdom, enhancing the lives of other women seeking to live their dignity, divinity, and nobility as women. We are as blessed as we are in union with others in this amazing time of vast transformations. I look forward to sharing more with you -it is my grace and my gratitude to share in being a woman matters.

I was sharing with a woman how when I felt my fear at the many challenges in my life, I am committing to instead…. ….choosing faith in my spirit and my infinity to take care of meeting the challenges. She replied that without first understanding the fear, the fear would not leave and that in fact, it would increase it’s impact in one’s life. I recognized this “inquiring minds want to know” tool as one I too have used in seeking to mine the gold out of an emotional experience I am having. And given the current nature of life (did I really sign up willingly for membership in “challenging, gotta figure out a better way, and whoohoo… lots of scary, crazy, overwhelming in scope stuff coming down the pike” times?), if I try to figure it all out with my mind, I will simply go crazy! Trying to figure out with my mind “why” what if” “because”will simply fry my brains, sizzle my nervous system, and make checking out seem the sensible thing to do….and I really don’t think that is the purpose of the massive changes in our world .

By living my commitment that life is not out to get me, I have chosen to trust even more that which cradles me and all beings brave enough to have signed onto being part of these monumental changes. Part of what I am changing within me in order to not get bowled over with all that is coming down these days, is to relinquish my habitual/mental either-or” thinking…one of us is right, one of us must be wrong, etc. In this conversation of our differences in meeting fear, instead of yielding to this mental habit and culturally enforced demand for polarity, there instead became room for both of us to be exactly who we are… “both-and” I call it. Instead of competing and contracting the space we occupied together, there became a sharing and an expansion of the space we occupied. It was an amazing ah-ha on how our union with our spirit and soul, in relationship with each other, creates the fertile ground for growing possibilities for the time we are hurtling toward.

So today, when you find yourself in the “either-or ” land of thinking, grant yourself the gift of instead choosing to expand into “both- and” thinking and feel the difference within you and perhaps even notice the difference outside of you. It is an amazing time to be alive and part of the transition into a time of embracing both the secular and the spiritual as one, understanding all through compassion, and courageous creation through community. For consciousness is our new currency….stay tuned for more!

I am an optimist to the point of presuming that the gift of a silver lining is often the reason that those scary dark clouds showed up.  And while that may endear (and irritates) those who know me, perhaps this tendency of mine has simply found it’s age to serve…..this age of rampant anxiety and fear that we now live in, this age when so much of what “we the people” have chosen in either ignorance or hubris, is presenting us with it’s seemingly overwhelming and impossible price. Am I in denial of the challenge and scope of what we have on our collective plate? No. Simply, I take our challenges and their seemingly impossible timelines, as the opportunity and the beginning of the conversation…the conversation where we remember what we amazing human beings can do if we but engage the courage of our wisdom, the amazing creativity and strength of our spirit, and work together in honorable relationship with each other. It is simply our time to do so, much as those in the ages before us faced their challenges demanding their best.

We live in a time when normal is being newly defined and how we interact with ourselves and with each other, will co-create the new normal. Do we stay in our fear and react to defend, or, do we greet our fear with curiosity and eagerness to learn and grow from it? Our collective challenge is to “step it up” in living our wisdom and our creativity, our active commitment to compassion and community, and in living faith that we truly are Beings of Infinity. Work ahead? Yes. A age demanding our creativity and heart? Yes. The time we were born to serve?  It seems to be so….and it is all good.