The pilgrimage of an average housewife, mother, and working woman leads her to seek a deeper communion with her Creator. Her ultimate goal is to come into awareness as a visionary, to awaken to her dance with the wind.

She is in a progressive learning experience, following her path toward attainment of a gift she seeks to stir within. From her mentor and from like-minded friends, she continues seeking a unique relationship with higher power. She shares her new awareness.

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Pondering the challenges that stir questions, I listen to the inner response. My interpretation of a visionary is that it portrays wisdom, assurance, understanding, and acceptance. A visionary is one who sees the goodness, the Allness that would network our world in a capacity to work together, to love one another.

When we pursue our good, we are seeking Love, wisdom, health and hearing the music of the natural world that resonates harmony. We search for understanding, strength, joy, communion, compassion and gratitude. We seek our good, whatever that might be.

We neglect to acknowledge that we already have our good. We may not be giving it the spot light at center stage but it is there, only awaiting acknowledgement. Each time we offer an act of love, of compassion, of connectedness, we receive empowerment of this good.

By reminding ourselves that our good is abundant and that we have healthy and wholesome abundance, we begin experiencing our good. It may appear shy at first. We can boldly call it forth and allow it to become a fragrant perfection.

As we experience our good, we see the abundance. As we taste the sweetness of our abundance, we see the good. We touch our recognition of the value and sacred identity within and with our natural world and with every other part of life. This awareness reveals the gift of a visionary.

Awareness is total acceptance of life, acting as a channel of Love, peace and wisdom. Complete acceptance requires preparation. Preparation offers assurance.

If one finds acceptance in the community, whether social or solitaire, he or she has understanding of the cause. Previous experience of personality created the existing situation. Preparation, as the next step, can transform what is current. The flow happens only when all archways of the foundation are open for the natural flow of spirit.

The observance of the sacred becomes normal living. It is not any particular way of life; it is simply life.

Allness is open, flowing through my being.

A mystic seeks to offer the lustre of reality and eternal values in every aspect of life. She reveals the gifts available for all.

A mentor offers challenges and guides the student to think for self. The answers are already within.

A visionary has peeled away all the stuff so is exposed and in continuous communion with the Light. A visionary offers the mirror that reveals the answers. This perspective offers a deeper analysis of challenges and the strategies available. The reward is in seeing the gifts exercised by humankind.

The root of my reason for this search began to reveal itself.

How do I live my spiritual ideals every moment? My solution comes with the manner of my acceptance of life's experiences as they are offered.

Through my quest, I have discovered there is something, beyond definition, beyond comprehension, what I have claimed as Soul.

Soul offers a mystical curiosity, a myriad of unanswered questions. I desire a personal introduction to see and understand the soul of nature.

My desire is to share my perspective of the connection with Allness as Oneness.

There is a part of me that can and does understand. What essence of pleasure and joy this could provide if it were at center stage and revealed each moment!

Our discussion here relies only on personal impressions. Understanding comes through offering myself to the wind. This allows me to experience the sensations and listen to the realizations it offers. It offers the opportunity to express the effect.

I am told I am made of body, soul and spirit. Body has a way of dominating my life, or so it appears. The physical appears to be the part of us that learns and develops but the physical body one day returns to the earth. Our spirit does not need to learn and develop. So then, it must be the soul that learns and develops, preparing to one day return to the Universal Spirit.

As we study, we can allow our understanding to permeate our soul, kneading and blending to offer perfection. As we grow toward excellence, we receive a wiser perception of our existence and the creation of the universe.

Let us climb a mountain; stroll a country lane; climb some boulders to overlook a desert valley; absorb the mist of a refreshing waterfall; fly a kite on a country hillside; sit by a lake; watch the kaleidoscope of colors in the fading sunset. What is your choice?

A variety of philosophies offer expansion in the concept of Allness. Some offer an aspect that reveals a personal communion. Both expansion and personal communion are important. The expansion of my understanding of Allness gives me a greater compassion and acceptance of others.

While living on the desert, I journaled: "The bellowing hot desert wind seems to sap my breath from me. My voice is lost in front of my face. Dust devils taunt by throwing sand at me. It howls on through the night and seems to never tire. It continues with its malicious force through another day. How long can I withstand? I plead for quietude. I hide in the closet. I can still hear its compelling drone."

My mentor suggested I bend with this wind. Let it go through me. She suggested not fighting it but blending and submitting. I did not know how to achieve this Oneness.

Since that time, I have made new discoveries. There is an immense treasure in the soul of the wind. It is not just at the proverbial end of the rainbow, unless we are already eternally at the end of the rainbow, which we are.

We experience the treasure of life every day. It may not be wise to stand outdoors during a lightning storm but watching the performance can be fascinating and invigorating. Life is not meant to be a drudgery. It is a gift to enjoy each moment.

We can indeed bend, as does the willow, and experience the healing and strengthening qualities of the wind.