by Chrysa Smith
We try SO hard to be positive here. After all, it’s our philosophy. Keep plugging. Don’t give up…..yada, yada, yada.
But there are those days that despite the best efforts, the upbeat mantras, the smoke and mirrors, we still can’t get it together enough to feel great about ourselves. And in those cases, as a writer, I break out the words.
Of course, there are quote books ad nauseum (and I think I own about 60% of them), with cute little sayings about being the light, looking on the bright side, walking on the sunny side of the street. Yuck! Let’s be real. S…. happens. We can’t be bright-eyed and bushy tailed all the time. And it is on those days that I say, let the bells ring.
If you don’t know it, Ring The Bells That Still Can Ring is from a Leonard Cohen song that serves as great psycho babble—-it’s always a nice reminder. I recently read that when things seem to be going awry, often it helps to realize that our set path (which we all have) may not be the divine path for us—i.e., we might be inflexible to detours in our lives. In those cases, at those times, it may help to remember this:
The birds they sang at the break of day
Start again, I heard them say
don’t dwell on what has passed away
or what is yet to be
Ah the wars they will be fought again
the holy dove she will be caught again
bought and sold and bought again
the dove is never free
Ring the bells that still can ring
forget your perfect offering
there is a crack in everything
that’s how the light gets in
We asked for signs, the signs were sent
the birth betrayed the marriage spent
yeah the widowhood of every government; signs for all to see
Ring the bells that still can ring
you can add up the parts, but you won’t have the sum’
you can strike up the march, there is no drum
every heart, every heart, to love will come, but like a refugee
Ring the bells that still can ring
forget your perfect offering
there is a crack in everything
that’s how the light gets in
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Here’s to letting in the light, letting loose, letting go
–even if it is through a “crack!”
All it takes is a crack! Often the low vibe, the unmotivated feeling, the desire not to be bright is an indicator of clearing. We empty and then fill constantly, so there are low days to equal the high days. The loveliness of clearing and the low vibe is that it is that something is leaving us. Something we no longer need, In feeling this it is gone. Often to me that is enough to giggle about it all! Knowing I am making more space for joy and ringing the bell!