[Note: please consider the thoughts, perhaps re-reading and visualizing a few times. Then do as many of the exploration steps as you have time for.]
Thoughts
The first seven Inner Christmas messages explored the soul's mysterious reflection of our life processes ending with the intention to birth new thoughts, new feelings and new deeds.
With the life processes we interact with life. We receive life through breathing, warming and nourishing.We find our free relationship to life through secreting. Finally, we express our commitment to life through maintaining, growing and reproducing.
These processes are key natural activities of our life body but within our soul's reflections, processes ask us to bring them into conscious inner intention. Within the soul these inner intentions provide us with a knowledge of the world, create a free relationship with the world and fulfill our presence in the world with living thoughts, living feelins and living deeds.
We are here to live and to love. The remaining five inner intentions are the elements of the deed of loving ourselves, others, the world, the spirit, and the future.
In the highest intention for life, to reproduce, we discover a sacred emptiness or nothingness. We give up what is to create what will be. The first intention in the deed of loving also requires us to be empty of all things. The first intention for loving is to wonder.
When we wonder we have no preconditions, no requirements, no selfish desires living in our soul. We are a void waiting.
Imagine being a void waiting! This is not a lifeless void. This is a vibrant, fertile void. And the waiting is a vibrant and fertile state. The vibrancy and the fertility awaken in our wondering souls a capacity to draw in, a suctional quality. Free of all deadening conditions and controls, the waiting void of wonder does not know what it attracts. Like a newborn emerging from the womb, the void is open to receiving all. Emptiness awaits fullness.
If we want to love, to truly know, we let go of knowing anything. In letting go of knowing anything, we become capable of knowing everything. Not knowing allows for true knowing.
Our souls long to wonder. If just once in a lifetime we manage to truly wonder, we open to love. A moment of real wonder, transforms our lives.
The spiritual world wonders at us, especially during the Holy Nights. We wonder at the spiritual world, especially during the Holy Nights. It is wonder that lifts the veils between ordinary consciousness and spiritual consciousness, between who your have been and who you are becoming, between you and another, between now and the future. Wonder creates the grace of oneness with what wants to be known.
On this eighth Holy Night, wonder at wonder. Feel the place in your soul where the void waits in wonder.
If you have trouble wondering about wonder, consider this. Do you want to be seen for who you really are and known from every possible perspective, to be loved unconditionally? Imagine meeting another's wonder.
Wondering is not for sissies. It takes courage to wonder, but if we want to truly love, we must risk fulfilling the intention to wonder.
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Dear Lynn, I wish you a "wonder"-ful new year, a year full of wonder. I really love this entry. Wonder is a condition most difficult to maintain, but absolutely essential for our soul's wellbeing. Warm wishes from Spain, Karina.
ReplyDeletei have a sense of coming home with this message. like the first one, breating is this a feeling to me so natural, so intens, so as it is supposed to be. i red the message out loud, breathless with wonder and excitment.
ReplyDeletei have an image of myself with my hands open and bowl-shaped, to recieve. tonight, today. and while the harder part for me is to trust that, what i will recieve will not destroy me, i am trying to recieve as open and unbiased as i can.
i wish you a wonderful and blessed new year.
I look forward to receiving these Inner Christmas messages each year, and today after I sent New Year text messages to friends wishing them a year filled with wonder and great adventures, I read tonight's Inner Christmas message on the Intent to Wonder, and I wonder at the synchronicity of this...
ReplyDeleteThank you for this message. I have spent a day in wonder. This morning I held a 4 week old baby, my God Daughter, who has just arrived home after spending the first 4 weeks of her life in the hospital. I wondered at her! I feel excited to watch her wonder as she grows.
ReplyDeleteIn my essence I want to be loved, nothing more.
I wish you a 'wonder'ful New Year!
Does anyone know if the 5 intentions of loving are also from Steiner?
ReplyDeleteI am full of wonder at the astonishing sychronicity of your theme today. I had been too busy to read any of the inner Christmas messages. But for some reason tonight I looked at your message about wonder and was amazed.
ReplyDeleteI am finishing writing a book about my experience as a class teacher in a Waldorf School. Last night, just after midnight, I had an insight that I felt would pull the entirebook into perspective with one key theme, the theme of wonder. This is part of what I wrote: "The ever-present challenge I faced as a teacher began when my first graders endered my classroom surging ahead under the power of pure enthusiasm on a steady course toward wonder. As I looked back on my six years with my class I realized that my main lesson as a teacher had been learning how to help my students hold that steady course."
Kim Allsup
Mrsallsup@aol.com
Somehow with January 1st, I have found that inner space - and the time and consciousness - to begin to read this year's meditations on the Holy nights. I have looked forward to your annual gift.
ReplyDeleteI woke up around 2:45 this morning and was drawn to my home office by a warm glow coming from the big windows. It has been snowing now for 4 to 5 hours and my back yard is quite visible—a serene and "wonder-filled" scene. I hear no sounds of cars - just quiet.
Immediately some of the words of the Christmas carol, "In the Bleak Mid-Winter", set to C. Rosetti's poem came to mind:
"Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
and the last verse:
"What can I give him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
if I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
yet what I can I give him: give my heart."
I shall return to bed thinking about "wonder" and "love". Thanks, Lynn.
Pam Fenner
Michaelmas Press
pjfenner@mac.com