Reentry

JUNE 7, 1980, 12:10 PM
W. WILLOW, STUDY

You are back in your study, o son, and although you are not back yet to the early morning hour here, you are clearly “back at home”. You know that the time here will be short, but you are grateful for the way in which home feels so good. You really must set priorities, though, because you do have some things you must do, and one and a half days out of the six available have passed. The use of them has been quite proper and quite worthwhile, but be sure you do the practicing that I require.

You realize, as you read these teachings over and then out loud to Lenore and to Chris that there is much to ponder and to learn from them, diverse as they are. You know, now, that there is rarely even a segment, let alone of full teaching, that is without merit… is not helpful. So reentry means summing up all that has happened during your time away, deciding which needs to be integrated into life here, and which can simply be “left” as experiences, past learnings, and memories.

You were surprised when you reread the Telling Your Story teaching at how much you hadn’t remembered about that evening’s conversation, particularly involving Jackie. You felt that it was far from a success… much less so than the other visiting times in Southern California… but now you recall that you learned a great deal from that. And just know that this remains a principle: you may learn the most from situations… and from teachings… which show the least promise as you are experiencing them. Reentry helps discover this. With experience after experience there is little time for reflection. These teachings are a particularly important way of remembering, but review is critical. You not only must keep the notation of things I urge you to do current, but you must mark off those you do and set the priorities amongst them. Set your priorities, but also allow Me the right to rearrange them for My purposes.

Reentry cannot be genuine this time, for departure again is so soon. Yet be aware of the nature of it, and profit from even that which you have now. Feel the new rhythm and see what of past experiences here shall be renewed and which not… and which of the experiences on the trip shall be entered into life here.

Reentry is a holistic experience. Appreciate its wholeness. It certainly is physical – you can be hot and can sweat. You can drink your own beer. You can clean the rabbit hutch, cut clover, mow the grass, and plant seeds. It is also a mental experience – reading dissertations, balancing checkbooks, assessing again the intellectual tasks and responsibilities in store. Emotionally it is a time of renewing feelings about people and places… getting perspectives anew on feelings while away with feelings past, and a fresh now. Socially, it is a time of picking up friendships and entering back into interactions with people here. The spiritual actually runs through all of these other dimensions.

For, as you know, it is the unifying dimension. The spiritual mediates reentry, helps achieve the best balances, and makes the sharing mentioned in these other dimensions truly holy in your experience of them. There is always a need to unify, but in reentry the need is often quite accentuated. When the spirit is “at work” relationships that otherwise would have been just social or just intellectual become “whole” in nature… not just spiritual, but much more whole.

This obviously operates also when you go away again. Your interactions with new people, as well as old friends and acquaintances, is a more whole experience, even immediately, if your spirit is involved. Part of this happens because of the present development of spirit… as it is. Part comes because of your awareness of the importance of spirit and certain efforts to achieve this balance. As I have admonished before, o son, don’t try to be spiritual, but be aware, as constantly as possible, of the need for the spirit to be functioning in the new events and experiences of life.

Appreciate the experiences, expected and unexpected, in your reentry.

Shalom on a Sabbath
1:07 PM