Call
Yourself Beloved
“And
did you get what
you
wanted from this life even so?
I
did.
And
what did you want?
To
call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved
on the earth.”
Raymond
Carver (“Later Fragment,” A New Path to the Waterfall, Grove Atlantic, 1989)
Good
Thanksgiving Day to everyone. I hope this finds you with people you love and
the good smells of turkey and sweet potatoes roasting in your kitchen. This is
a day for celebrating survival and family and the delicious fruits of the
earth. But before the feasting begins, take a moment to ponder all the things
in your life that bring you joy, and all the days during this terrible pandemic
year that you have felt strangely, peacefully happy at being “forced” to stay
home with family. For me, it has been a year of opposites—joy and sorrow, love
and loss, solitude and loneliness, industry, and boredom. This has been a very weird
year; one I will delight in seeing end but one I will always remember.
Even
though many have been sick, and many have died this year, you and I are still
here. We are here for a reason and are given time to discover what that reason
is. Perhaps you already know why you have thus far been spared from a pandemic
that has ravaged so many, but if not, I feel confident it will be revealed to
you. Just ask. Ask God, the universe, the Source, your Higher Power, the I
Ching, the runes, the holy book of your choosing, but most of all, ask inside
yourself. Sit with it; allow your inner wisdom to tell you both that you are “beloved
on the earth,” and that your have a purpose for being here. Be truly and
deeply grateful for your life. I am grateful for your life, and for my own.
Call yourself beloved because you are.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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