For this Sunday, September 18th, the focus
for our meditation will be on Priorities.
Last week saw the release of
the movie, “Sully,” about the US Airways pilot, Captain Chesley Sullenberger,
who successfully landed a plane in the Hudson River in New York City after
losing both engines to a massive bird strike.
The incredible emergency landing in water was not attributed to mere
luck but was very much a result of his hours of experience and preparation for
just such a moment. In his book, “Highest
Duty,” Captain Sullenberger writes, “I
had read enough about safety and cognitive theory. I knew about the concept of ‘goal
sacrificing.’ When it’s no longer
possible to complete all of your goals, you sacrifice lower-Priority goals. You do this in order to perform and fulfill
higher goals…I knew instinctively and intuitively that goal sacrificing was
paramount if we were to preserve life on Flight 1549.” This lightning-fast Prioritization helped
him realize he had to sacrifice the plane in order to save lives. While hopefully most of us won’t ever be in a
position of having to make such life or death decisions, we all can benefit
from the wisdom he shares. Some of us
are held back from accomplishing as much as we are capable of because we cling
to the need to perform everything on our list with perfection. Perhaps we lack flexibility and feel that we
must perform a sequence of actions in just the right order, but if we get hung
up on the early tasks and are reluctant to set them aside undone, they can
hinder our progress on the more important activities. This week in our prayer and meditation let us
examine the goals we have set for ourselves and the steps we believe we must
follow to achieve them. Are there
intermediate steps that perhaps could be set aside or skipped that might
interfere with how much we ultimately are able to do in the end? Let us ask this week to be gently guided in
the need to Prioritize our lives so we more clearly can see what truly
matters and what may be sacrificed that would otherwise hold us back.
In our efforts this week let us also continue to use the
energy of our prayers and meditation to amplify the light that covers and fills
this nation. As we perform our
meditation this week let us begin by re-energizing the brilliance and power of
the light we create. Just as before,
begin by forming a concentrated ball of light that is so bright it is almost
impossible to look directly at it. Raise
this sphere of light up high over the nation and then let its rays cascade down
to create a solid, impenetrable dome of light that completely covers every inch
of our country. From shore to shore and
border to border let the entire continent be filled with this brilliant, dense
light that will serve to magnify the best and highest qualities of our country
and the people who live across its vast lands.
Please follow the same practice as before: Get centered in
your body, ask to bring in your guides and others who are there to assist us,
and connect to the circle of others participating in this project.
Ask yourself what do I feel in my body when I am able to Prioritize what really matters and shed
those things that are preventing me from making progress? How does it
feel in my body when I recognize I get so much more done when I am willing to
sacrifice lower Priorities to focus
on those that are more important? Then send the energy and intention of
those feelings to the nation.
Be sure to disconnect from the circle at the end and express
thanks for those who have helped us in this effort.
If you have feedback or experiences you would like to share
please let me know via e-mail to kmiritello@gmail.com
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