I haven’t posted in a while. Not because the priesthood of the SBT is withering, but because I have been busy going through changes in my life to bring the way I make my living more in line with my mandate as a priestess. It’s an exciting time. This year I’ve also been going through a transformation of self due to the work of the priesthood – transformation that has brought my bodies, both physical and subtle into a different way of working and being that supports this work. These changes in particular support my work as the founding priestess of the SBT intent on building the priesthood into the vision I have been shown.

Being at the center of this much change has required me to holder tighter to those moments of silence and stillness. When everything is making dramatic shifts these are the only places of true rest. Now in my new incarnation as a graduate student (studying acupuncture – a career that allows me to work as priestess and healer in the way I make my living), I’ve had the luxury to start to build a day that has space for silence, stillness and peace within it – beyond the silence in my daily meditation. This is indeed a luxury.

For years I have worked hard to create a schedule that let me have a strong daily practice of meditation, prayer, exercise, mediation and writing. I made it all fit. What I sacrificed was rest and ease within the day. Now I am bringing rest back into the picture. I have ease in the schedule most days of the week. I have silence and stillness at hand. I am relearning to rest and to listen in a deeper way not just within the allotted hour. It’s a move toward spending more time being rather than just doing. It’s a practice of deliberate action rather than just need and momentum.

And in that deliberate space I am coming back to regular blogging and to doing the writing that will build the training program for the priesthood and indeed the foundation of the work we do. And in time, just as I carry the lessons I have learned in these years of starting the SBT, I will also carry the lessons of stillness, silence, deep listening and deliberate action within the core of my being. May they serve me well.