Tumult and Tranquility...
The mind tries its best to piece together an 'answer,' but at some point we must find acceptance of 'what is' if we are to let go of torment, grief, and other feeling states that would keep us captive and secluded from life.
Peace and tranquility are states of being… that transcend the circumstances of life.
In the latter 1800's, Horatio Spafford had sent his wife and 4 children off toEurope as he was detained with some business in Chicago Atlantic . Only his wife Anna survived. This followed the death of their only son several years earlier and also Spafford's financial ruin due to losses in the Chicago
As he sailed toEurope to join his grieving wife, Anna, the captain told him they were passing near the spot where his children had died. As Horatio contemplated the events of his life over the previous several years, he was inspired to pen the words of faith that became a hymn of the Christian church that would comfort many over the years…. "It Is Well With My Soul"…
"When peace like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, [know]**
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
Refrain:It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul."
The mind tries hard at times to figure things out. Our egoic thinking compares and judges the circumstances of our life. This incessant mental energy can be like an addiction that hungers for 'knowing the answers' and often can resist the actual truth and reality of what is… and what transcends the mental gymnastics…
"Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, 'It is well, it is well, with my soul.'"
Whatever circumstances enter our life experience, whether they are happy or sad… calming or tumultuous… Life has taught me that at the core of the Soul… the Source of Being resides deep within, and in that state of consciousness there is peace… a tranquility that transcends any thought or feeling…
Acceptance of 'what was' allows us to release the fantasies and traces of the past and return to the present… again to embrace the fullness of life in this eternal moment…
It is well… it is well… with my Soul!
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** Spafford actually wrote "know" in the penned script; this was later changed to "say"… which rhymes with "way… In reality, it seems more fitting that the inspired words would come to him as intuitive knowing from the heart of Being. The word "say" seems more mental and detached, but it does rhyme better! http://www.spaffordhymn.com/
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Blessing to you.... John
I suspect we all have experienced times which we would have hoped would have been otherwise… times of distress and sadness… times of transition, loss, and chaos…
In the midst of life's circumstances, we often struggle to understand and ask "why?"
In the midst of life's circumstances, we often struggle to understand and ask "why?"
The mind tries its best to piece together an 'answer,' but at some point we must find acceptance of 'what is' if we are to let go of torment, grief, and other feeling states that would keep us captive and secluded from life.
Peace and tranquility are states of being… that transcend the circumstances of life.
In the latter 1800's, Horatio Spafford had sent his wife and 4 children off to
As he sailed to
"When peace like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, [know]**
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
Refrain:It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul."
The mind tries hard at times to figure things out. Our egoic thinking compares and judges the circumstances of our life. This incessant mental energy can be like an addiction that hungers for 'knowing the answers' and often can resist the actual truth and reality of what is… and what transcends the mental gymnastics…
"Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, 'It is well, it is well, with my soul.'"
Whatever circumstances enter our life experience, whether they are happy or sad… calming or tumultuous… Life has taught me that at the core of the Soul… the Source of Being resides deep within, and in that state of consciousness there is peace… a tranquility that transcends any thought or feeling…
Acceptance of 'what was' allows us to release the fantasies and traces of the past and return to the present… again to embrace the fullness of life in this eternal moment…
It is well… it is well… with my Soul!
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** Spafford actually wrote "know" in the penned script; this was later changed to "say"… which rhymes with "way… In reality, it seems more fitting that the inspired words would come to him as intuitive knowing from the heart of Being. The word "say" seems more mental and detached, but it does rhyme better! http://www.spaffordhymn.com/
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Blessing to you.... John
February 3, 2010
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"The ultimate truth of who you are is not 'I am this' or 'I am that,' but... I am." - Eckhart Tolle
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