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Isolation is a dream killer! Are you circling the drain?

I may not seem like an isolationist by any means.  But there are degrees of disconnection and fragmentation. --And yes, even hatred. It does not matter if these conditions are only mild feelings, like passing thoughts, like only a droplet in a bucket – or, at the other end of the spectrum, if these emotions are so strong they are pressing against your heart and soul and threatening to shatter everything that is you. 

 These tendencies are like seeds, if nurtured, they will smother the heart, shrink the soul and will eventually lead to DEATH – a long, slow miserable death.    

During the past five years of what I like to call “The Dark Days,” I had withdrawn.

How many of us were like the boy and his cat in the photo, hiding inside and looking out?  I was no different than everyone else. I was hurt, frightened, and angry. I disconnected.

It is rare to meet someone who was not affected during that time of disconnection and distrust. For me this blog is my way of taking my first step back into the open. I’m standing on the front porch with my hand still on the doorknob. But I’m reaching out.

I want to share with you what kept me from “circling the drain.”

Today there are too many of us  who are without a community and without meaningful relationships. Only 8% percent of us feel we have anyone in our life with which we can have a meaningful conversation. Teenage suicide has risen 70%! That is an epidemic of which no one is talking about We are  suffering in a valley that has led  us deep into  a wilderness. We are alone.

 Author and  Pulitzer prize winner , Ann Dillon says, “ We must  achieve the complex ability to care for others and give ourselves away,    or we will die because we cannot survive  alone.” 

And I say,   “If we don’t, our body will threaten for a while  trying to warn us, but  then  it will give up, the heart will stop beating while our souls shrink from lack of spiritual nourishment.”

So today I am stepping outside. I am offering you my hand.

I want to share the Spiritual Galaxy  I have found within me.