Just to Live is Holy

By Heather Fraser

One thing I've learned about living at ground zero — empty of everything accept the basic necessities of life, is that just to live is holy.

Maybe that's the teaching in all of this. That to have one's face planted in the dirt, is so we can see — up close and personal — the very earth that supports us, how it allows us to remain upright, how she feeds us with her energy, her beauty, her benevolence, and her stunningly simple grace.

She's definitely become my mirror lately, and what I see is the Original Me.

I have always known about this Original Me. It's been an ancient memory that I have had the exquisite blessing of having access to whenever I felt like tapping into it. And I do, and I did. Often. It's been my escape route....and it's becoming so very stale now.

I don't want to escape any more. Indeed, I feel like I cannot. With face in dirt, the Original Me is as close as she can possibly get. I don't have to fly into ancient memories any longer. They are literally in my face, in the here and now. I've landed. More like crash-landed! Earth Angel...ready to walk in this world in a new way, and use those beautiful memories to build anew. A new world.

And I'm not the only one. Anyone else who has gone through a fall from grace, or is going through something similar, is on the same mission. Earth Angels. We had to fall. We needed to feel ourselves hitting the Earth beneath us, as a tangible, solid, physical structure. We needed to feel ourselves in this way too. So expert have we been at sitting up in the ethers, looking down upon the masses and thanking God that we didn't have to be a part of THAT dense reality. Who said God doesn't have a sense of humor...and a helluva drop kick too! One that booted me right off my lily white feathered perch of perfection and specialness.

Right here, in the place that I am, is perfect. I admit, I still have a tendency to fly away. What I've been noticing lately though, is that when I do, it no longer feels so good. I am becoming more comfortable now, in that solid, grounded place inside that I like to call the silent peace of God. It's a profoundly powerful place of deep, rooted connection to the Earth, one that balances me out and makes me feel whole, and at home now.

I'm still learning how to be here in this world....but not OF it. I'm learning that there is a preciousness to living here that surpasses anything I may have felt in other worlds. And because the Great Mother herself has become my playground, my entertainment system, my music, my food, my riches, my beauty, my healer, my teacher, my Love, my very sustenance — I have realized that just to live is holy, and that there is a gift contained in everything. Breathe in....breathe out....only Love is real....what else is there....what else matters?

Copyright 2009 Heather Fraser — www.heatherfraser.com Ontario, Canada

About Heather Fraser

Heather Fraser, born December 30, 1962 in Toronto, moved to Africa at the age of 9. It was here that Heather began to understand the connection to all living things and come to know the grace and wisdom of both the natural and esoteric world. Her healing, infinite journey of transformation has lead her to the richest, most sought after destination anywhere — home — to the soul. This place of deep awareness and self-acceptance of her special gifts of sensitivity, empathy, and intuition has given her all the passion and inspiration needed to write and teach what she has learned about honoring the Self and nurturing the soul — the true purpose of our existence. Heather specializes in counseling, re-educating, and profoundly validating those that are highly sensitive, intuitive, empaths, helping them to accept these traits as the gifts that they are and to express them proudly and shamelessly.

She is a gifted, prolific, successful published writer, poet, and speaker with a readership spanning the globe, as well as a Reconnective Healing Practitioner, a Level III Touch For Health Practitioner, and a former Holistic Nutritional Consultant, RNCP. Heather is the proud mother of a daughter she names Sage, who is also a highly intuitive, sensitive empath. They live together in Ontario, CANADA with their lazy cat and hilarious lovebird. For more information, or to contact Heather, please visit her website at www.heatherfraser.com