Do you remember, back in the dark ages, before streaming tv and dvr’s – even before vhs tapes – when the Wizard of Oz was an annual event?
I looked forward to it every year.
Well, most of it! I will confess to being terrified by the flying monkeys!
And, yes, as lectionary passages go for this time of year, this one may seem odd! There’s a story, though. A story from yesterday. The first Tuesday in March. Also, locally known as Mattering Matters day!
First, a bit of an intro…
Mattering Matters is new offering for Intentional Creativity® Guild members. (Think the folks who have been around long enough to collect a few badges for their Scout sashes!)
My dear friend and sister-in-creating, Natalie Moyes, and I are the leaders, and we are – to put it mildly – still learning!
Yesterday was our third gathering… in the land of Zoom.
We had a plan!
We posted invitations and reminders in all the usual places. We practiced the second camera bit. The Legendary Husband checked the previously cranky mike.
We got lots of wish I could comments from sisters with Spring Break issues.
We showed up.
The mike did not, in fact, do the thing. After time out for laptop fetching and lots of hand signals from Atlanta to the US West Coast to Canada, we were finally able to see and hear each other.
All four of us.
It went great. I mean, we painted. We wondered. We laughed. And we all cried… which is a really good sign in this kind of work!
And we all claimed the magic we had been doing, in a new light! (Thank you Frederick Buechner!)
In short, we mattered! Which, when you get right down to it, is a pretty good day’s work!
A bit more mattering happened in a meeting with a new friend, struggling with a big message.
Then, at least at my house, more regular stuff happened. Dinner. Jeopardy. Sorting. Hatching. Planning.
More news than might have been optimal for sanity’s sake. Then, blessedly, Stephen Colbert… playing – in my opinion – the part of the Prophet crying in the wilderness!
Finally, bed. And my new weighted blanket which is, indeed, helping with the whole comfort and sleep thing.
(We’re still working on temperature management!)
A reading from Kathleen McGowan’s The Expected One, which is my other lectionary text for this season. The first Holy Week.
And, eventually, dreams.
Grandmother Moon, it seems, is also friends with the good witch, Glinda!
You know the scene.
Dorothy. Sparkly, red magic slippers. Trying so hard to get home.
And this:
You had the power all along, my dear!
You do, too!!!
Not necessarily the power to be magically transported to Kansas, but the power to find your home. Your center. Your place to matter.
It’s a journey the world needs lots and lots of us to make!
So, blessings, whatever your tradition. And an offer… 45 min. My gift. We start plotting the path to your vision of mattering. Click here, and the calendar elves will hook you up!
ps… the small original mixed media work in the photo above is available for adoption, and there’s only one! Fabulous, empower-ing gift for yourself or someone who matters! Click here for the close up, with the whole quote! (There’s a sale going on!)
