Intention

While Watching Dr. Wayne Dyer’s PBS special on his book, The Power of Intention, I was already formulating in my mind what I was going to write. I had originally planned was to write about the Seven Faces of Intention; (Creativity, Kindness, Love, Beauty, Expansiveness, Abundance and Receptivity) in fact, I took four pages of notes on everything I would write about, and then the most amazing happened. Dr. Dyer’s daughter came on stage and sang a song that I haven’t heard in a long time and haven’t sung in an even longer time. She sang the Prayer of St. Francis. I love this song. I love the words, I love the melody, but mostly I love the way it always makes me feel. It just has such life to it that every time I hear it of sing it I feel open. Open to everything; to God, to possibilities and opportunities, to the people around me. Open. Like I really am what the songs says I am, a channel.

While she was singing the camera panned the audience. What an awe-inspiring thing. Here was this woman being a channel for these words while those around her opened themselves to receive them. Without being asked to, without it being habit or ritual; this room full of strangers joined hands and together let the music and the power behind it, move them. This alone gave me chills. I in turn felt their presence and their power.

I have not really though about this song in a while. Every once in a great while, the song will pop into my head for no reason and refuse to leave. In the past I have though nothing of it, but after observing what the power of those words, that melody, made that audience full of strangers feel, I have begun to wonder.

Was my subconscious trying to tell me to become more open? Or was it trying to tell me at that moment, on that day when that song popped into my head, I already was?