I have to admit, I have been feeling a bit of despair recently.

My dream is for a world alive with vision, and everywhere I look, I see a lack of it; in politics, business, education, healthcare; my list could go on. It’s not that I am just now becoming aware of the issues of the world; I have always kept current on the news, but for some reason, it has been affecting me more deeply lately. 

I knew that something was up for me, some kind of message was trying to get through, so in my meditation time this morning, I asked “What is this all about? Why am I feeling this way?” Then, some words that I had written for my book came to me:

The way we are to serve in the world will be found at the intersection of our heartache and our bliss. There, at the place where our greatest sorrow meets our deepest joy, the voice of the ego will finally be silenced. It is at this junction where, in answer to “what are you willing to give?” we will finally, completely, and without reservation say “everything.” We will then know that there is only one thing we can do, only one thing we were born to do, because we have reached the place where we simply can’t do anything else. We will know what it means to be human and simultaneously divine. As we stand on this holy ground, we will know that we are home at last, that we have found our people, and that they have found us.

Heartache and bliss, intersecting at the very place we were born to serve. I seem to be standing on that ground.

A couple of months ago, I started using this affirmation:

I live with my heart wide open.

I don’t know why it is so, but there seems to be something about the human heart that needs to be cracked open. In the experience I am living through right now, I am being taught that the way that I can serve in the world is to allow my heart to be completely and totally opened up; to become vulnerable in a way that I never have; to serve from a place of heartbreak. It is one thing to talk about how we would change the world if we could, but I am finding that it is quite another thing to actually experience the pain of the heartbreak on the way to finding my bliss.

I am living the words I have written and truly discovering that heartbreak and bliss live in the same spot.

We are entering the month of February when the message of love will be everywhere. As you think about the people and things in your life that you love, I invite you to add something to your list that you might overlook: your dreams.

I invite you to fall in love with your dreams; to love them into being. Instead of asking, “how badly do I want it?” ask, “how deeply do I love it? Allow your heart to be cracked open so that the love that resides there can shine forth and so that the heartbreak of the world might enter in.

But don’t stop there. As you feel the heartbreak, look for where you also feel your deepest joy. It is here that you were born to live. It is here that you were born to serve. It is here that you will heal yourself and offer healing to the world.

I don’t know what tomorrow will bring. Perhaps the work I do will bring a bit more vision into the worlds of business, politics, and the rest; perhaps not. But I know that as I bring my deepest joy into the places where I see darkness, my fog lifts and my heart opens a bit more. For this, in this moment, I give thanks.

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