Being Where I'm Needed

One of my favorite bloggers, the Bliss Chick, wrote a challenging post recently asking what the point of all this “enlightement” and spiritual growth is.  She’s pointing out something that many of us have noticed.  Too many people are focused on “growth” for themselves alone.   The point of all this spiritual work that many of us do, should be to improve life for people beyond just ourselves in some way.  Even if your bliss-filled state simply means that you smile and say, “good morning” to the busdriver every day with a real sense of joy.

It also made me think hard about my “day job.”  I often talk about wanting to find a way to support myself fully through my priestessing work.  What I mean is supporting myself through my writing, ritual, teaching and artwork.  I’m realizing more and more that I don’t think that’s what my path is meant to be — at least not for a while yet.  The truth is I’m needed where I am. Just because my business cards don’t say “Corporate Priestess” doesn’t mean the job isn’t needed, wanted, or done.

Prayer of the Corporate Priestess
Spiral breath in and out on each line. In to cleanse out to ground.

I am grounded in the here and now (3x)

May every word and every breath open my heart so Shekhinah may flow through me and:

• My actions are more aligned with the life I want to live
• I am better able to do the work I am called to do
• I honor and cherish the Divine in all that I meet through the day
• I may serve Shekhinah in in all my actions

I try to bring the same energy to my job and sense of mission that I bring to my spiritual work.   I model my beliefs without necessarily preaching about them.  Everything from my eating practice to my hands-on spiritual work has come up naturally in conversation and ended up with people asking me all kinds of questions about it.   Beyond that, I bring my ritual skill to my presentation work.  I’m exhausted sometimes because I put out so much energy during a presentation — but the difference is obvious to people.  I’ve recently been doing a series of trainings on what to most people is a REALLY boring topic.  Using the same process I would with a ritual, I bring them with me and try to create a memorable experience that everyone feels more empowered by attending.  It works.  People have stopped me in the hall and thanked me for giving the presentations and engaged me in conversation about them and how fun and engaging I made it.

Yes, I could work at a spiritual center and help move spiritual seekers further along their paths.  But don’t you think an advertising agency needs me more?

Let me finish with a quote from God in your Body by Jay Michelson:

…the point of spiritual practice is not to increase our pharmacopeia of spiritual narcotics so that we always feel sweetness and light, but to enable more “receiving,” gradually to widen the sphere of acceptable faces of the Divine.

Personal fulfillment is great, but the point is to change the world, even if it’s one person at a time.

I know my mission.  What’s yours?

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