Jody England

I have been feeling you all so deeply these last days. Your warm hearts, your fierce spirits, your intense desire to care for your loved ones and meet the demands of the holiday season while walking a spiritual path. I am struck by the irony of the conflict of walking a spiritual path AND celebrating the holidays. I found myself railing against the seemingly disparate pulls of my own desire to experience sacred holiness, open hearted joy, and peaceful connection juxtaposed against the external barrage of materialism, falseness, emptiness, and rush of nearly everyone and everything around me.How am I creating this? How do I keep getting sucked into it or feel like I have to completely withdraw to avoid it? It can feel like swimming upstream to hold the center of our Beingness while engaging with so many competing energies. I wondered if it served us to come together this week for Wild Soul Medicine Radio. Is it just one more thing to add to Our to do list, will it contribute to the bustle, does it serve more t