The Offering by Jeanette Amlie
Can you see me? Can you hear me? Do you know that I am still alive within you, waiting for the time you can feel me once again. We are one you know. We have never been separated, though you needed to leave me in the shadows in order to keep you safe. I don't resent that, I know how to wait with patience and love for the time when you are ready.
Do you see what I have to offer you. Do you see this flower of deep compassion that is extended so gently from my heart to yours. We are the same beautiful one. Though you know me only as a wisp of memory that has faded with time. But I have not faded. I am still here.
You are beginning to remember that you left something behind. You can't quite remember what it was, but you know it was important....essential even. I am that something...that someone. Smell the sweet fragrance of this lotus that I offer you. Let it remind you of me, the one you left behind in order to find your way in the world. It has taken a long time to discover that the world you left me for is not what you had hoped. It is not at all what they told you it would be. But that disappointment is the call to your awakening and I am still here waiting.
Within you lies a fertile seed that is ready to grow and bloom. It has lain waiting in the fecund soil of this decomposing world of disillusionment. Yes, it has all been necessary for the seed to grow and flourish. Yet this is no ordinary flower to be picked and set upon a table, only to wilt when its brief glory is over. This is the flower of your Divine Spirit. This is the flower of Truth that is within you. And now, by the tears of your sorrow it has been watered into awakening.
It is the flower of the Bodhisattva, the one who hears the cries of the world. For now you are ripe and ready for it to flourish, even among the rubble of a broken world. You were never hear to pick up those pieces anyway. The darkness must take what no longer needs form and turn it into the substance of new life. This is why you are here. This is what you have come for. This is what you are ready for now and I am right here with you.
Do you see what I have to offer you. Do you see this flower of deep compassion that is extended so gently from my heart to yours. We are the same beautiful one. Though you know me only as a wisp of memory that has faded with time. But I have not faded. I am still here.
You are beginning to remember that you left something behind. You can't quite remember what it was, but you know it was important....essential even. I am that something...that someone. Smell the sweet fragrance of this lotus that I offer you. Let it remind you of me, the one you left behind in order to find your way in the world. It has taken a long time to discover that the world you left me for is not what you had hoped. It is not at all what they told you it would be. But that disappointment is the call to your awakening and I am still here waiting.
Within you lies a fertile seed that is ready to grow and bloom. It has lain waiting in the fecund soil of this decomposing world of disillusionment. Yes, it has all been necessary for the seed to grow and flourish. Yet this is no ordinary flower to be picked and set upon a table, only to wilt when its brief glory is over. This is the flower of your Divine Spirit. This is the flower of Truth that is within you. And now, by the tears of your sorrow it has been watered into awakening.
It is the flower of the Bodhisattva, the one who hears the cries of the world. For now you are ripe and ready for it to flourish, even among the rubble of a broken world. You were never hear to pick up those pieces anyway. The darkness must take what no longer needs form and turn it into the substance of new life. This is why you are here. This is what you have come for. This is what you are ready for now and I am right here with you.