“Life is like an arrow, a shaft and an arrowhead. The power behind it is your prayers, your desires, your dreams, your calling, your intention to live a life connected to relationships and to the divine.
The arrowhead is like your subconscious beliefs, part of what wants to give life to your community, to serve, to help, to heal, to guide. But the other side of the arrowhead is being true to yourself.
True to your gifts, your calling, true to the desires I placed in you before your ego was even formed. Those desires, like a little child, are innocent expressions of who you really are. The shaft of the arrow is a bridge between who you are and the stories used to cover with truth.
So real, so sacred.
But in those stories, there’s still power, still potency.
Even more power grows in your shamanistic side, bridging worlds between what is spirit and what is flesh. The multifaceted identity you carry, your perception, your ability to bridge worlds between seen and unseen, this is your gold. Your dreams, impact, pulse, joy, legacy, all of that, all for you.
From childhood dreams, to pain suffered, to feeling like golden ash, pre-ego, to lost ego, then letting it all come down, combining it all. Everything has been guidance, everything has been shaping you.
Into purpose, into life, and eventually into love for yourself, your community, eventually as a parent and a guide.
Take the arrow of truth and fire it into intention, into faith and freedom. That is the real culmination, past, present, future, trauma, gold, healing, lessons. This is the essence of your arrow of life. My arrow, your life.
Love, wonder, awe, and impact.”
– Todd
