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Series One part 2 Blessing: Journaling as A Journey
Series One Part Two – Journal as Journey
By Stephen W. Emerick, Ph.D.
A Journal can help you track the unfolding story of your life. It becomes our autobiographical expression of our life that is Bodacious in nature! It is how you find the golden thread in the story of your life as you ferociously and fearlessly are honest about your past and your experience of the present and articulate the emerging story that draws you on into the future.
♥ Four essentials of Journaling:
STOP. The Power of Pause.
LISTEN. To the world around us. Listen to understand.
PONDER all that you see.
ADORE. Find aspects to adore in everything and everyone.
In our Journaling, we have a process of ACTION and REFLECTION. It is the harvest of all that we have done.
The Forgiving Journal
Stephen W. Emerick, Ph.D.
I know not how the dream received its cue-
(or whether the sky was black or blue).
Nor too, do I know when
(either by muses’ pencil or pen)
I tumbled into the blinding white-
Words soaked up from the sheets…weaving
into the wrinkled pleats, and
draping in folds of stories untold,
bequeathed their suffering to be told-
my inventories of the wrongs of old…
And in the writing, it fell to me
to write a thousand wrongs.
And as the hands tongue
there was loosed,
tears wedged in the white linen…wove
the Watermark of the soul itself.
Now, awake, I set the pages upon the shelf,
knowing when and if the need arises,
I may come again and help myself.
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A very personal note from Stephen:
My father, the Reverend Samuel Saint John Emerick, took the Progoff Journal; workshop early in his wonderful life. He faithfully recorded actions and reflections of all the aspects of his life. Dad died in his 90’s, and after the memorial, a package arrived at my home. Inside the box was his Progoff Journal writings. In it is recorded his youthful years, dialogues with famous people he met and the man he became known by many people around the world as the First Chairman of the Board of Habitat for Humanity International. He wrote of our world travels, including when he and I went to Zaire Africa on behalf of Habitat for Humanity International.
Every once in a while, as Keeper of the Journal, I will pull a story or memory from his writings and send it to my children. It seems to explain to them why I am the man I am today, and will be tomorrow. My father lives in us all, and it is a gift to read it over and over again in his own hand writing and loving words.
In this gifted box are his dreams and memories, hopes, fears and great love for humanity and this earth wherein we have our shared life. His love for my mother, and his love for his three sons, their wives, and his grandchildren. His love for a refugee family that he helped sponsor to flee the Laos and Vietnam conflicts, whose son became many years later, my brother from another mother whom I am blessed to have met and remain in close contact all these years, Same Saesing of Laos, and now Hawaii. He is married and has three beautiful children, and he speaks to them of myself as one of their Uncles. And he calls my father his second father, who brought hope and home to his family when they were refugees.
In the end, this is what my father loved: having helped develop the organization of Habitat, and the joy he received knowing the magic that can happen when a house becomes a home. And how as wanderers and refugees we can all become known.
Who would you want to be the Keeper of your Journal after you are gone?
Begin now if you have not already, journaling of your life and those you love. One day, in a place and time far far away perhaps someone will open your journal, and hold it as a gift of a life time. Yours! And theirs!
In 2009 he wrote a letter to me and put it in the journal, writing of some of the cherished things we had done together. At the end of a very long list he writes: I just have to write these things, and send it yo you one more time. These were fortunate times for us. Sit with it! Ponder it! It will add haling to your troubled times. Happy Pondering! Dad. And then he closed with his favorite thing to say to us all: Remember, you do not walk alone. Closer is He than breathing. Nearer than hands and feet. Always remember who you are, and whose you are!
Dad died three years later. But not to me. He is very much alive right here, right now. Ponder that for your own life! In his journal, he sailed… write…by the end of his life and has kept on living! Excuse me, I have to go now, I want to write about this in my journal, of this note I am writing to you. Go ahead, start a journal. If nothing else, write the first sentence or paragraph, and see what comes to you!
Series Two Blessing Two: Helpers
Like the train going up the hill, we carry our lives of Meaning and Purpose. Yet at times we need Helpers, and so we add another engine to the train, to help us u the hill and over the top. Then too we hear said to Helpers, “I could not have done this without your help.” And then there are the Invisible Helpers. Those we do not see and cannot do without. Always remember them: environmental workers, those that keep the power lines working. Those who pray for us. The Reclusive Helper: These helpers work mostly in silence on their own. Often as the unseen Helpers. The Inclusive Helper: They include you in what they do and in conversations treat you as an equal. They will speak of their dreams, but they will also ask you about yours. The Predicting Helper: They can at times be somewhat problematic and best to avoid. The Prophetic Helper: usually come and speak to you alone. Prophecy about you and your life. This is found in stories of old and many religions scripture. The Individual Helper. There for us in important moments and events. Like the story that knows when it is being told, helpers show up in many unexpected places and times. Pay attention. Helpers are showing up. They will be around as you follow your dreams!
Series Three Part Two Blessing: Trying to Control Everything
You are out of control; you need to get yourself under control; the world is out of control. So we try to control everything, and this can make us sick.
Some things are good to control, such as our healthy habits: brushing our teeth, bathe, eat.
Yet when we find our world full of anxiety, we try to control thing, try to gain control. We are human. It isn’t a problem trying to gain some control. The problem is trying to gain control over everything and every part of our day. This makes us hypervigilant, agitated, and thinking in the extremes full of bias. We stop dialoguing and sink into doctrine as we loose our sense of wonder about the world.
So we know what to do now, and we throw out the third chair, then the second chair, because we know what to do. We have to get control of everything. Now we have no humility, thus no wisdom. Control has now constricted our lives.
What can we do? Bring that second chair back in. Ask for help, get support for positive change, and re-envision your future with hope, humility, and wisdom. Then bring in the third chair. Community. Look at the vast resources that are available to you. Forgive. Reclaim your dreams or find them for the first time.
Series Four. Part Two Blessing: The Dream Emerges Within. The Gestational Phase.
Give your dream the gestational time it needs. For some of us this time goes by quickly, and for some of us it takes years. Don’t worry: your dream will let you know when it is ready to be born.
Series Five, Part Two Blessing : How To Relate When Dealing With Change
Series Five Part Two: How to Relate when Dealing with Change!
Here at MedicineSinging we focus on How to Relate when Dealing with
Change. We look at the importance of how we relate to our heroes, helpers,
and healers. We speak of our rigorous honesty about the past and present.
And we speak of the naming of the dreams that we hold with longing and
love.
In this presentation we find Seven Sacred Steps of how to relate to
change. How to relate to all of creation, and how we relate so that rather
than harm we can create. Co-creators with LIFE!
The steps include Drain the Brain of Judgement; Set Aside
Assumptions; Develop Dialogue; Ditch Dogma.
and more. Enjoy the presentation!
Series Six Part Two Blessing: Hostile to Death
If we have disdain for death, when it comes to taking off this robe of many colors (our body) we cannot see the fierceness of death and dying, and its magnificence and immenseness, and its place in the universe. Then we are truly lost.
MedicineSinging hopes to suggest ways to make room for this fierceness of death in our lives. And when we do, when death visits, the path will be illuminated. Perhaps then we can find our way to grant hospitality to that which we call death.
Series 7 Blessing 2: Relating Well To Others
Blessing Two: Relating well to others.
Let us pay attention to what it is we dream of and desire to create with our lives.
This will guide our relating well with others (or not!). Take remembrance and
gratitude for your heroes, helpers, and healers. Be fiercely honest about your past
and present as well as the desire of the future you desire to create. And always
remember, you can only create a future with the help of others!
Series 8 Blessing 2: The Container of the Spiritual Life
The body holds the vibration of the chord sung to us, given to, or gifted to us.
Where there is suffering in the body there is a cry for healing chords to be brought
to bear. Whether it is an individual body, or a communal body.
Sometimes we carry the spiritual bones of ancestors suffering, migration, exile, or
genocide. Yet you are here now. You carry the story or make it a song. And in the
telling and the singing, right wrongs, and touch upon the heart and that for which it
longs.
You and I are the container, the sacredness that holds the chord that cannot be
destroyed. We more often than not can play sacred chords when we are in tune
with the vitalities of the spiritual life. Play them well.