Yesterday I mentioned that while looking for a book, I found a small card with the Seven Whispers written on it. These come from a book The Seven Whispers: Listening to the Voice of Spirit by Christina Baldwin. It is a powerful little book, one perhaps that Spirit led me to yesterday. The gift of her insights seem to be something I particularly need to be reminded of right now. I hope others might find them helpful also.

The second "whisper" or intention is "Move at the pace of guidance." This nudged me to think about what was guiding me these days. Urgency? Details? Restless energy? Expectations, mine or others?
Baldwin describes "pace" as the speed at which one might walk with a three-year-old, stopping every several steps to inspect the newest discovery. Wow! What a concept!

I remember once walking to work and noticing small drops of blood on the sidewalk. The drops of blood then became a paw print, probably a dog’s. I became very focused in that moment and actually began to think about how a child would follow the prints, creating a story about what had happened to the dog, where it had gone, fashioning both a happy and a sad ending to the story. It was in the shock of seeing the blood and in giving my attention to the moment that led to a very creative walk and what became a very exciting day. My normal, hurrying pace was replaced by the pace of a child, full of imagination and wonder.

Baldwin writes:" When we move at the pace of guidance, we have time to question and time to listen for answers before moving on. When we move at the pace of guidance , it occurs to us to wonder what plans the Divine might have for us, in the midst of the plans we have for ourselves."

What is guiding my pace today? What is guiding yours? Perhaps listening to the Voice of Spirit will cause us to walk differently, to stop and listen with our child ears, to notice with wide-eyed wonder. Perhaps we can, as Baldwin suggests, see "this day as a living, breathing, being of energy and power, with which we can develop a capacity to transcent the details?"

Today my prayer is to move at the pace of guidance…………