BRING IT ON!
I subscribe to a web-based service called Wordsmith. Every weekday I receive an email with a new word, its pronunciation, etymology, meaning and usage. I love this service because I love words; which is somewhat ironic given that I am using them less (at least verbally) while relying on information derived from my senses more. Nonetheless, it is a great service and I have learned some incredibly useful and descriptive words. As is often the case, today’s offering from Wordsmith presented the answer to my unspoken request for guidance on today’s offering in this Journal. Today’s Wordsmith word is:
Gotterdammerung
PRONUNCIATION:
(got-uhr-DAM-uh-roong, -rung)
MEANING:
noun: Complete destruction of an institution, regime, order, etc.
I love it! Complete destruction of an institution, regime, order, etc. Today’s Who Said It Has To Be Hard Blog word is:
Courage
Pronunciation: \ˈkər-ij, ˈkə-rij\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English corage, from Anglo-French curage, from quer, coer heart, from Latin cor — more at heart
: mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty *
the ability to do something that you know is right or good, even though it is dangerous, frightening, or very difficult **
So, in the face of Gotterdammerung, our gift to you today is Courage. From the heart; the ability and the strength of character to do something you know, in your heart, is right or good, even though it is dangerous, frightening or seemingly very difficult. Today, as this Journal draws to a close, our gift to all in these seemingly turbulent times is courage. We are opening a pathway directly to your heart as I type these words and send my courage and our courage to you directly from my heart and through my hands, through the keyboard, through the airways, through the ether, and right straight into your heart, like an arrow from my quiver, shot from my bow, right straight into your heart. And from today on, you will be and feel emboldened to do what your heart knows is right or good for you, even though it seems dangerous, feels frightening or appears very difficult. Because your heart knows what is right and good and your heart knows that the seeming danger, fear and difficulty are all just illusions designed to help you grow, test your mettle and trust your heart.
All around us Gotterdammerung is in full bloom. Institutions, regimes and orders are being shaken to their roots and it’s about bloody time! I do believe there is a new way and it is based on harmony, integrity, love, kindness, compassion, truth, respect, collaboration and creation. I do believe that all relationships, between individuals, businesses and governments are being asked and given the opportunity to base themselves on cooperation, integrity, holding each other able, creation from the heart-for these are the seats of our real power; these are the bedrock upon which a new society on Earth with respect for all, can flourish.
So let’s shake some shit up! Let’s have some things topple! Let’s let go of some control, or our illusions that we are in control. Let’s recognize that we are energy and our creations are energy; that they carry the seeds of the intentions with which they were planted and if the seeds hold the memory of greed and fear, hatred and anger, corruption and feelings of worthlessness, the institutions thus created cannot look or be any different. And so it is with our individual creations, our lives. If we are creating from fear or lack or feelings of unworthiness or dishonesty- how can our lives look any differently?
Bring on Gotterdammerung! Because I know that the power of creation from the heart, from our hearts, can build a shining world in which everyone with courage will feel that he or she has, at last, come home. Welcome to the new world. To those who join with me in this I feel so grateful. To those who need to believe I am misguided I give you my respect and hold you able to have exactly the experience you came here to have without needing to define it for either of us.
For tonight, it’s enough that I Believe.
From the Gotterdammerung within me to the Courage within you….
To be continued…
* Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
**Macmillan Dictionary
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