Sky Grounding - Noticing

My first official day back as a school teacher was yesterday. I was conflicted about heading back to that "day job" - wondering about time and its demands. The issue arises as to how to maintain cosmic awareness of the truth, at the same time as one navigates through the concrete world of working, paying taxes, child care, and laundry - the everyday melee of modern life.

It occurs to me how important it is to remain grounded - but in the Infinite. Stuff goes of kilter, breaks when we wander around without a foundation. As I was setting up my classroom, I toppled my new, classroom phone and shattered the monitor to it. At the same time, back on the home front, my husband lost his grip on a spice from the rack above the counter and broke a cat shaped spoon holder we use to lay ladles on when we make spaghetti sauce. I was fond of that particular spoon holder; it cost six dollars. The school phone was worth six hundred.

My worst teaching day occurred three years ago. I was rehearsing kids for a production of "Into the Woods" when one of my young performers, a trained ballerina, slipped and cracked her arm in three places. It looked like a piece of inert rubber after her fall. Yet, amazingly the surgeons in triage were able to repair it.

Today I make a point to notice what is happening. I notice others for who they are, without judgment. I notice when I am tightening in my body, and my own mental habits. I make a point of noticing how fast or slowly I move through space, the tonal quality of my voice as I speak. I notice when fear and habit get the better of me, and I become ungrounded.

Lots of things seem to "break" as we move through the spaces around us - not only physical objects or our bodies. Families and our relationships with others may seem equally fragile. But ultimately, all our perceived injuries are soluble. There is no misalignment that cannot be corrected, because there we are never alone as we move through linear space and time. There is no where we can move where the Infinite is not, so nothing, not even our perceived separation can ever be truly broken.

We are always here, we are always safe, we will always heal. Sky grounding - seems like a good idea for today.