In my dream last night, I was at a party in a huge house, and I was invited to spend the night in a guest room by the matriarch of this particular family. It was a beautiful home and I felt very blessed to be invited to spend the night in this gorgeous place. During the course of the owners’ conversation with me, she indicated that in return she would appreciate it if I would agree to clean her kitchen for her. It seemed a small enough recompense to me so I agreed. Then she led me and many of the other partygoers into the kitchen. It was huge and cluttered and smoky and dark and it looked like it had actually never been cleaned before.
That’s when I realized just how gargantuan of an agreement I had just made. I felt this overwhelming fear in the dream as I started to sort and clean the kitchen shelves. Then the matriarch who had issued the invitation as well as the cleaning request showed up and said, “I really want to share this with you. It means so much to me.” And in the dream, I hugged an old ragged t-shirt to my chest and I felt the love bubbling up through it. I wanted to cry the sensation was so strong. And then these words started flowing from the ragged shirt….
You are so much more than you could ever imagine. You will have to see beyond the illusions of the dark and cluttered chaos to realize your truth. Everything around you is a reflection of how you believe yourself to be. What if you let go of that Cinderella story and created a new tale…. of wonder, joy and exquisite love?
Even in my dreams, I noticed that I had to work “hard” to earn a nights respite. So I surrendered a lot of ideas and frames and beliefs around working hard to earn the light and the love that is our inherent truth today. But I plan on keeping the ragged clothing from my dream… as a reminder – “been there… done that… got the t- shirt!” I plan to pull it out of a drawer whenever I need to remind myself that “I am the light. So is everyone else. I don’t have to earn what I already am.”