{"id":3633,"date":"2013-03-25T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2013-09-11T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:07:34","slug":"illumination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3633","title":{"rendered":"Illumination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday everything fell apart.\u00a0 I was heading for the dump when my car lost power.\u00a0 It looks like it\u2019s the transmission again.\u00a0 Paul O\u2019Hara, whose driveway I was blocking, gave me a ride home.\u00a0 I called AAA and cried the whole time \u2014 I asked her if she often talked to upset people \u2014 \u201cO yes\u201d she said very gently.\u00a0 This looks like the end of my long run of feeling good.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Fox:\u00a0 \u201cThe journey Hildegard is celebrating is no puny journey.\u00a0 Our lives are not trivial.\u00a0 They are great and demanding adventures, powerful challenges.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Illuminations-Hildegard-Bingen-Matthew-Fox\/dp\/1879181975\" target=\"_blank\">Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen<\/a>, p84<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday I figured out why the transmission broke.\u00a0 I was trying to do too much.\u00a0 Going to Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream in Plainfield (an hour\u2019s trip) was not a good idea just before I would be facilitating a day-long workshop.\u00a0 I cried a lot yesterday, but once I figured out the reason, I was OK.\u00a0 Stopped being upset, just accepted it and went on to the next thing.<br \/>\nSo right now it feels like I\u2019m starting over, starting something new.\u00a0 O gosh, I\u2019m feeling some love for and from the Universe that just stopped me in my tracks.\u00a0 This is SO DIFFERENT!\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably going to cost a lot to fix and I DON&#8217;T CARE!\u00a0 Not because I have lots of money, which I don&#8217;t, but because I&#8217;m no longer worried about it.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall I had been working with an online line course that asked me if I felt supported by the universe.\u00a0 Not a concept that I\u2019ve thought of that way.\u00a0 So I looked at the \u201creal\u201d universe, the one I know from studying astronomy, and saw that of course it wanted what\u2019s best for me.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3463\" target=\"_blank\">I posted that in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spiralgalaxy-e1364259822435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3641\" alt=\"spiralgalaxy\" src=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spiralgalaxy-e1364259822435.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, reminded by a friend, I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/astropix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomy Picture of the Day page<\/a>, and discovered the <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/archivepix.html\" target=\"_blank\">archive<\/a>.\u00a0 I started wandering down it mostly checking out pictures of galaxies, and other things that looked interesting.\u00a0 There is so much that is so unbelievably beautiful.\u00a0 It strengthened my sense of the universe as a really positive place, and that somehow became feeling supported by having my car die because I was trying to do too much.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t gone away either.\u00a0 I\u2019m still feeling happy, feeling held in the field of a huge being who loves me and wants what\u2019s best for me.\u00a0 And I\u2019m just amazed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday everything fell apart.\u00a0 I was heading for the dump when my car lost power.\u00a0 It looks like it\u2019s the transmission again.\u00a0 Paul O\u2019Hara, whose driveway I was blocking, gave me a ride home.\u00a0 I called AAA and cried &hellip; 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