So, so, beautiful, Renee! I LOVE that this came from your memory of that Bible verse. Not only was it short enough to be easily memorized at the time, but it stayed alive in your memory all these years later. ♥️ I'm saving one of my thoughts on weeping for our next call, but something else did just come to move. One of my brilliant subscribers once said that "all water is on a journey back to the ocean." Tears are water that has taken a detour through a human life. Water is a conscious, living being and I believe it has much to do with our weeping. And stones (minerals) are the keepers of memory. In the body, water is saturated with stones, each molecule of salt holding innumerable memories. These, too, are alive and conscious. (As are every other elemental part of us.) I often think that this whole idea of an inner me is, in reality, the many different voices of all these living entities, sometimes coming together, but not always. The water within me is not a separate being from the water outside of me. The stones are part of the great stone being. Given all of this, I wonder if what we understand to be intelligence is actually remembrance.
When you stated the two-word Bible verse I could feel it. Perhaps this is why it lodged itself somewhere deep within you to be pulled out as you sat down to write to us. Our tears are certainly a way of transcending our outer selves, even if it doesn't feel like it at the time. Just as the opportunity to choose doesn't always feel transcendent until later when we see the path it laid out for us.
I love this post Renee! I believe there is an intelligence in tears. The other day I wept. It had been quite awhile. After it faded, I was left feeling clear and open. What came next was an amazing inflow of insight that has stayed strongly with me. Yes, there is an intelligence here...
So, so, beautiful, Renee! I LOVE that this came from your memory of that Bible verse. Not only was it short enough to be easily memorized at the time, but it stayed alive in your memory all these years later. ♥️ I'm saving one of my thoughts on weeping for our next call, but something else did just come to move. One of my brilliant subscribers once said that "all water is on a journey back to the ocean." Tears are water that has taken a detour through a human life. Water is a conscious, living being and I believe it has much to do with our weeping. And stones (minerals) are the keepers of memory. In the body, water is saturated with stones, each molecule of salt holding innumerable memories. These, too, are alive and conscious. (As are every other elemental part of us.) I often think that this whole idea of an inner me is, in reality, the many different voices of all these living entities, sometimes coming together, but not always. The water within me is not a separate being from the water outside of me. The stones are part of the great stone being. Given all of this, I wonder if what we understand to be intelligence is actually remembrance.
When you stated the two-word Bible verse I could feel it. Perhaps this is why it lodged itself somewhere deep within you to be pulled out as you sat down to write to us. Our tears are certainly a way of transcending our outer selves, even if it doesn't feel like it at the time. Just as the opportunity to choose doesn't always feel transcendent until later when we see the path it laid out for us.
A beautiful essay Renee, thank you.
I love this post Renee! I believe there is an intelligence in tears. The other day I wept. It had been quite awhile. After it faded, I was left feeling clear and open. What came next was an amazing inflow of insight that has stayed strongly with me. Yes, there is an intelligence here...
Intelligence is relation. And then what we do with it. Love this, Renee!