A Journey 6 Years, 6 Months, and 15 Days in the Making-OneWord 2024
6 years, 6 months, and 15 days ago, I wrote…
And what is chaos? Genesis teaches that
“The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”
Genesis 1:2 ESV
In the beginning, God brought order, but what preceded order was chaos. Chaos serves a Divine Purpose. We cannot do anything about chaos, but we serve The One Who Can.
I had it wrong.
We can do something about chaos. We can, in fact, embrace it as our natural state. Distracted by enduring a prolonged season of sorrow and grief,
I forgot to seek my peace.
I forgot about rest.
I neglected my sacred obligation to my temple, and,
in my hubris, I suffered greatly.
I forgot who and Whose I was. I’d spent too many years pursuing an unsustainable fraudulent facade that, when I lost my Redwood, I broke.
I needed to.
Poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen solved my mystery decades ago…
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
Anthem, by Leonard Cohen
I was scribbling in my notebook a few weeks ago when suddenly, it all became clear. Decades as a show pony hadn’t worked, and it might even have been killing me.
With all due respect to Ruiz, his Toltec teachings and my own indigenous ancestors, I made my own agreements,
Own your ish.
Embrace your chaos.
Choose yourself; choose joy.
and I wrote them down.
6 years, 6 months, and 15 days ago, I was right about this;
We have a holy obligation to yield,
To be still.
To ready ourselves to seek Him, and
to reclaim ourselves, mindful that we drag ourselves through chaos when we forget the Maker of our Peace. We must embrace chaos as our sacred, natural state, for within my chaos is my creative nature, the place where I meet God. The place where my wild enters into Divine Peace.
Perfect Peace.
Peace surpassing all understanding. Peace achieved solely by remaining steadfast in God. Trusting God’s Purposes and God’s Plan and acknowledging that our chaos serves Divine Purpose. Inclining us to yield. Bidding us to surrender. Demanding that we mindfully, gratefully, obediently submit to rest. To worship. To quiet. So that, even in times of great chaos, we may be called into order, by The One Who Created chaos, Who Created us.
And now, for the OneWord gained from this lesson…
My OneWord for 2024 is
Meaning: of a system, organization, or natural process, governed by or combining elements of both chaos and order.
Chelle A Wilson 