I’ve been thinking a lot lately about healing, about manifestation, and about clarity. 

One of the things that my wife and I often talk about as being a highlight in our lives is the opportunity that we have to gather with our community once a month for ceremony.

We did that this past weekend. And as things usually go, I got out there about an hour before hand and took some time to walk the yard and pray a little bit, to meditate, and to get things ready.  While I was out there, I was greeted by absolutely piercing sunlight, and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.  And with the pristine quality of the light and the openness of the sky, I knew that the intention for our ceremony would be clarity. 

Those of us who’ve had a challenging upbringing because we were raised in emotionally turbulent households – maybe with alcoholism or some other form of dysfunctionality, often pray for sanity. But the truth of the matter is, we don’t really know what sanity is. We’ve never really had a good example of it; or perhaps the few examples we have had of it have been fleeting at best.

But we do know what clarity is.  It occurs every once in a while.  We get to see our wound.  Get to see the motivations behind our triggers.  Get some insight as to why we act the way we do…