Wisdom's Embrace

Wisdom came to me and sat on my left shoulder. It stretched out its right wing to cover my back. With its left wing, it covered my chest. It whispered in my left ear, “I am here now. I will not leave you.” I could feel its embrace and it felt like home.

As I stood there draped in the illuminated layers of my offering, I could feel my power surge thru me until the staff in my right hand burned red and orange and yellow with fire. I opened first my eyes and then my mouth and found that the same burning fire lived there as well. Wisdom spoke once again, “It is time. I bring to you all that you are. We have work to do. We will walk together.”

Without hesitation, I raised my burning staff. I took a deep breath and breathed in the words that I had just heard. Wisdom’s embrace tightened around me and the fire that I carried began to burn even hotter still. I recognized the place deep within me from which this fire came…and I remembered. Facing forward, I lifted my right foot and I stepped out into the light of the darkness from which wisdom had come.