A Beginning

Magic is truly afoot for I plowed through my terror of new technology and began.

The longer I live the more convinced I am that fear of appearing foolish stunts our growth {for foolish challenges ones security about being 'knowing'} more than any other defect of character and technology almost always leaves me feeling foolish. It does seem kind of foolish to begin a blog without figuring out how to get my image on the page and how to navigate the layout tools but what I know is that either I will figure it out or more likely, someone who reads this will explain to me how to engage the processes that are necessary. Either way, sometime in the near future this will indeed look like an official blog page.

About the title of this blog

A couple weeks or so ago two posts on the same day appeared in my inbox containing the Leonard Cohen poem God is Alive ... Magic is Afoot. To be honest, the poem itself is not one of my favorites but the title made me so happy that I kept it as unread in my inbox just so I would see it when I checked my email. During the same time period I was working up the courage to enter the technology world where blogs reside and was mulling on a title for my blog.
Finally I grasped the obvious: use the words that make you happy!

But I worried. Not the obvious worry about copyrights but about using the word God in the title of my blog: how many people will be turned off? How many people will think this is religious propaganda of some kind? Then I yielded to my gut - the deep gut where my spirit resides - and realized that the title of the poem made me happy because the six words sum up not only what I believe but how I live my life: I live in the happy magic that the spirit of Creation is alive in all living things and most especially within people.

Personally I find the word God to be rather small and narrow considering the possibilities available for experiencing God. The foundation of my spirituality comes from three decades in a twelve step program and to that end God is for me a 'Higher Power' - a power much greater than my simple humanness - a power that infuses my humanness with life. The names I have used for my Higher Power include: Universal Energy, Creative Energy of the Universe, Yahweh {because I have no 'image' in my mind for this ancient Hebrew name}, Source, Sophia {the Divine Feminine}. I have heard HP referred to as gravity and for one person, a tree as expressions of an energy of life which is real but beyond the human.

Although I do not believe the 'title' one gives to the Creative Energy of the Universe is important, the word God is in the title of this blog because the intention of the blog is to share my experience, strength and hope about living ones life with meaning and for me the essence of meaning is found in the relationship I create with the Creator of my life.

Abracadabra is the word of incantation of magic that is most familiar to people. I was chatting with my brother John the other day and he said to me, "do you know what abracadabra means?" "No" I answered. "I will create as I speak" he told me. Later I went online and discovered that the translation of abracadabra as I will create as I speak is from the Aramaic word Abrahadabra. The URL for this blog is thankyoumagic because what I know is that I do create as I speak - whether 'in my head' as thoughts or out loud in conversation or in words appearing on a computer screen or ink on a page. My life changed and became magical when I began using the words thank you as my personal abracadabra word. But this has become too long for one days post and so I will share about thank you as abracadabra tomorrow.