I recently received a diagnosis of cervical cancer. All my previous concerns and cares that felt so important, so pressing and heavy… Poof. Gone. Perhaps you’ve had (or are having) a similar experience with some news or change in your life? I suspect we all have those things that seem to violently shake us.
I will have surgery. Medical treatment beyond that: not clear yet … still awaiting results of various tests and imaging.
However, as far as spiritual treatment goes, I am quite sure of the course I am taking… It’s the powerful therapy of “Holding the High Watch.” The high watch, Emma Curtis Hopkins writes, “Concerns that swift, subtle faculty possessed by us all, whereby we look… without the aid of our physical eyes.”
The high watch is seeing with our inner eye, with inner vision. What do we look at with our inner vision? We focus on the truth that there is but One Presence and One Power at work in our lives.
When I close my outer eyes and focus on the I Am that I Am – I find peace. In the Stillness, things move and happen. Things that shape and reshape my experience. Just how things happen is not my concern. My only job is seeing Spirit. Spirit sees and takes care of the rest.
I invite you to hold the high watch with me – let us be in communion, in wonder, in awe of the All and All. See me with you, in Wholeness.
I do the same for you. As we each hold the high watch, we recognize each other as we truly are. How lovely is that?!!!
Let’s breathe into this together:
- We don’t wrestle with illness – we rest in the Stillness
- With inner eye, we seek no less than a vision of our Life, our Oneness
- We don’t identify with a diagnosis – we identify as Divine
- We see this outcome: Soul and Spirit, fully aligned
A closing thought for now: It’s okay to feel what we feel. Sometimes, I find myself crying as worry and fearful thoughts go pinging around in my head. Sometimes it’s light tears, sometimes it’s a messy meltdown. Rev. Kitty recently said something to me, that feels so, so comforting. She said, “Feel what you feel, cry, do what you need. When you are not feeling ‘up there’, knowing the Truth of your being, that’s okay, because I am doing that for you… We are doing that for you.”
THAT is holding the high watch. Love flows, and I gratefully receive it!
And I am holding the high watch for you.
