Five days ago I did my first Fire Walk. (Yes I get the irony, perhaps I am an April Fool.) It symbolized expanding my context, and burning away my resistance and leaving the clean white light of acceptance in its place. I was able to walk on fire and hot coals because I was conscious and in the present moment. Ya it was very “cool” and enlightening and all that. Yesterday, I burnt my lip quite badly while drinking my morning coffee because I was not conscious. I was not present. That little kiss of enlightenment is very poignant because as I strive for greater consciousness I am looking for “big” things, “symbolic” things like Fire Walking to expand my context and enable me to live a bigger life. That little kiss suggests to me I need to not forget to look closer to home. Consciousness is not in the “Oww Ahh” coolness factor or necessarily in the “symbology” of the event. Consciousness is in the practice of being in the present moment and perhaps lives in the many, many mundane ordinary moments of my everyday living. Just as there is way more space than matter in our universe, so too there is much more mundane than extraordinary in my life. It is the consciousness I can come to in the ordinary where I will have my largest impact if for no other reason than there is just so much more opportunity to practice. Perhaps this is the grounding of the saying, “God is in the details.” Perhaps my enlightenment will come from recognizing the Divine in the mundane.

Today I look for Divine Source in the minutia of diaper changes, food preparation, floor sweeping, friend visiting, lover hand caresses and two-year-old tantrums.