Something clicked into place today or a more accurate description is something woooshed into place today.
After momentous creativity has been expressed and taken form ~ and the space returns to neutral after an immense creativity overload ~ I always feel the energetic rush of life force calling whatever has been waiting to be created into being... well, it can be something like enormous waves crashing upon my creative shore. I am shaking my head in minor disgust over the metaphor, but it will have to do.
Andrea Schroeder's weekly intention blog post could not have come at a better time. She asked via her blog (my words, not hers), "What do I intend for this week? What are my intentions?"
I had a large to-do list this morning. Since "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opened Friday night, I have been scraping away the residue that has collected in my home which doubles as my creative work space. So much energy was spent on memorizing and creative intention there that the piles and the little altars of chaos had taken more and more of a hold on my countertops, tables, corners....
I worked on clearing the "stuff" and at the same time I pulled out one of my poster sized sticky notepads.
I wrote my theme for the year on the sticky. "Abondanza" I wrote. It means "abundance" in Italian. And, being Valentine's day and Andrea's theme as well , I wrote LOVE as well. Both Love and Abondanza had an ever-so-feminine heart substitute for "o". "Abundanza Love" I wrote. I wondered how that might frame my intention for the week.
I know some people would be satisfied with simply "Abondanza Love" and I felt more refining would help my process.
I continued to clear space and do other niggling tasks on my chore list when another word entered the mix. "BE Abondanza Love." Oh, that was good! I ran to my poster sized sticky note and added the BE to the list. BE ABONDANZA LOVE. My heart smiled.
I went back to my chores and I heard another message for myself: "Be abondanza love in my work." Now I was onto something rich, something I could BE and also something I could manifest and hold onto. "Be Abondanza love in my work"... and one step deeper "reflect abondanza love to others."
I know some people would be satisfied with simply "Abondanza Love" and I felt more refining would help my process.
I define "my work" broadly. It includes mothering, activities of creative expression, teaching, life-coaching, facilitating groups, my volunteer work within the community and perhaps other work as well. Since part of the "form" part of my intention is to take note of daily expressions of "being abondanza in my work" I am sure I will gain clarity throughout the week.
It just feels great to have this theme and a question to live as well.
"What am I doing to be and reflect abondanza love in my work today?"
For whatever reason - perhaps it is because the universe knew you would be reading, I am compelled to ask:
What are you doing to be an abundance of love today?
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