We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
12 May 2009 ~ Categories: blog • eco-living • mind • wellness
I read a recent book by Alice Walker that is poignantly relevant to the times we are living in and her voice, beautifully inspirational. Her powerful message is summed up well in her book title, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For — Inner Light in a Time of Darkness.
Walker’s message touched me so much that at the beginning of our recent IO All Team meeting, I read allowed her borrowed message from the Elders of the Hopi Nation. I share it with you now:
We have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour
Now we must go back and tell the people this is the Hour
And there are things to be considered:
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast
It is so great and swift that there are those who will
be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The Elders sat we must let go of the shore, and
push off and into the river, keep our eyes open, and
our head above the water.
See who is in there with you and Celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing
personally.
Least of all ourselves.
For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth
and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish the word “struggle” from your attitude and
your vocabulary.
All that you do now must be done in a sacred manner.
And in celebration.
“We are the ones we have been waiting for … “
—The Elders, Hopi Nation, Oraibi, Arizona
All of us humans, now more than ever have an opportunity, a calling really, to take honest inventory in our lives for ourselves and for our home… planet earth, mother earth. It’s a time of great change. We can feel it, sense it, see it, hear it.
But what will we do about it?
As Walker and the Hopi Elders remind us, we must know our own landscape (internal and external). We must have the guts to let go of things that aren’t serving us. We must find the power to change.
Where has our personal responsibility for ourselves, our lives and our planet gone? What things can be left behind that aren’t in service of your life purpose and your personal path? If you haven’t identified your purpose or path. Then start there.
Michael Ray’s book called The Highest Goal, helped me sort that question out.
That’s what I am trying to do in my own life and that’s what I recently posed to our IO Team and now pose to you, our IO community. Sometimes that’s relatively easy work, joywork even, and sometimes it just plain hurts. In either case, now is the time.
Who are you waiting for? We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
It rings so true for me that real transformation starts from within. Even if forced upon us, change only transforms us if we let it. And your chosen community will support your transformation. If IO is part of your chosen community, then we can support your process of waking up to yourself and your wellness transformation.
Trust that the river knows its destination.
And let go of the shore,
Amy
