Journeyman

As I began my Immunics ritual this morning -- I usually wake up and connect and clear, but then I sit meditation for awhile after I'm more awake -- I decided that I was going to focus today on doing some more "money" work. But then something told me to check my email, so I did that.

In my email, my Merriam-Webster Word of the Day was "Journeyman" (a skilled worker who works for daily pay), a word that I found comes into English via the Old French journee, or day's journey. Then I checked Ralph Marston's Daily Motivator email; his piece for today is called "Bright Future," and contains this quote that I took to heart:

"If you are willing to take only one or two steps, there are very real limitations on how far you can go. When you are willing to take as many steps as necessary, you can go anywhere you wish."

I saw these two separate emails as completely related, and they connected yet another issue for me personally: the dissertation that I've been drafting.

I often get discouraged while reading and writing for this document: I have so far to go on getting it where it needs to be; it sees multiple approval stages, each of which is a challenge when those helping me draft it really don't know my work or my interests very well (this is due to our school having lost four of the core faculty that I was working with in very short time). I have learned to see these challenges as positive to its development and to my own; but the challenges remain challenges.

So several times in this stage of things, I have felt that I was drowning in sources; really, there is very little out there that addresses what I want to address in the dissertation, but one of the stages of writing it is to plow through sources and tell why they don't address what I'm doing: why there's a need for what I'm doing.

I tend to lose sight of the "next step" as I feel constantly confronted by the larger whole. So today I decided that I would use Immunics to help me install the ability to see these individual steps more clearly; I decided that the word "journey" can help me see the work as a series of daily steps.

• I am installing the ability to see the writing of the dissertation as a journey: a series of daily steps.


• I am installing the ability to see clearly the steps of the writing.


• I am installing the patience and persistence to take the steps in all of my bodies.

Thank you God, for giving me this ability to connect with my higher bodies!

peace out!