So does it occur to anyone else that this Corona virus is happening during Lent and that there is a lesson here?
One day everything was life as usual in the world. It was Fat Tuesday so to speak.
Then a virus appeared.
Then the next thing you know we are searching for toilet paper. We are social distancing. We are not able to eat in a restaurants. Schools are closed. Amusement parks are closed. Concerts are canceled. Hotel, travel and tourism industries are hurting. All sorts of events are canceled. Some businesses that have never closed ever even in 100 years are closed.
All this closure has us giving up a lot of things. Just like people do for Lent.
Lent is a time when people give up something they enjoy. It is meant as a sacrifice. The forty days represents the time Jesus spent in the wilderness, enduring the temptation of Satan and preparing to begin his ministry. Lent is a time of repentance, fasting and preparation for the coming of Easter. It is a time of self-examination and reflection. It is a time when Christians focus on relationship with God, growing as disciples and extending ourselves, often choosing to give up something or to volunteer and give of ourselves for others.
Can you see the connection?
We are all, not just Christians, being asked to give up some things. It is situation where we are making choices. What is important? What is not?This is being called a crisis. If so, the word crisis which has the Greek root to mean to sift. That is to shake out the excesses and to leave only what is important. That is what crises do. They shake things up until we are forced to hold on to what matters most. The rest falls away.
In this time of the time of the Corona situation, we, are preparing for Easter in a sense. A new way of living may very well be at hand. The birth of a new way of living. Getting back to the basics of what is important. We are seeing what really matters. Before this situation we had excesses that were not of benefit to us in our spiritual sense. We lived wanting more and more. Just like Fat Tuesday, before this situation, we splurged. Now, we have been forced to cut back. We have had to adjust to a very big change. We are looking around to see who needs help. How can we help our seniors? How can we help the small business which has to close or has had their business dwindle due to the social distancing?
Don’t you think it’s interesting that the name of this virus is corona? Many people would have heard about the solar flash preceding ascension. The solar flash is understood to be a mass CORONAL ejection from the sun, wiping out all negative influence on the planet and restoring humanity to their rightful true states of being. Switched on in the heart, connected to true source, able to experience true light and eradicating all false light on the planet. This is spoken about in ancient mystery schools and religious texts alike, our ancients understood that a time would come where first light would return.
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and grew gardens full of fresh food, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently. “And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal. “And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.”~Kitty O’Meara
In the Hindu religion, Shiva is the destroyer. Shiva represents the constant changing of the universe, the flow of life. From Shiva we learn that everything must constantly be destroyed in order to be reborn. He reminds us that we must constantly let go of everything we hold on to, in order to flow with the motion of life.
Ruin is the road to transformation.
Please take this time, to reflect. What positive can come out of this at the end of the crisis? It is all going to be all right.
Coach Lisa
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