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Deepening Relations

Dear Universe,

I met someone who I will forever remember when I hear or sing this song:

"Walking through the Holy Fire.
Raising the Vibration
(2x)
Stepping through the Sacred Flame (with the Sacred Earth).
Deepening Relations
(2x)"

My travels through the American Southwest have been amazing as well as graceful and flowing. I came to do ritual and to connect with community and I found myself dreaming of a woman every time I heard the last line of that song/chant.

Deepening Relations!

i'm deepening relations...

Over the course of a night we must have sang this song lines at least twenty (maybe forty) times. Every time that the last part of the chant would roll around I could look to my right and smile at this darling woman. Who knows what she was going through her mind body spirit and what processes was allowing herself. All I knew and experienced was this profound love for her.

Everytime that the words "deepening relations" were sang, I felt a love eternal and an knowing that held her in my heart as my closest sister, wife, mother, and daughter. I wanted to cry tears of joy.

My sister...

The lesson i received from this experience was compassion...more compassion and more compassion...for her and all women and men and everyone on earth...when i realized what it meant to deepen relations, i could do nothing other than give love and be love.

Later in conversation she told me she was having a difficult time with the medicine and the experience of praying...but in the subsequent conversations it was evident that this experience opened doors in her life and freed her energy from past relations that were not longer serving.

Now the real test for me is to take this wisdom into the world and apply it at all times,

Rev. T. Hughes
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