29 Day Gift Challenge: Day 2

"Danger, Danger Will Robinson!"

My laptop computer's charging cord has a short in it. My screen keeps getting darker and lighter and I'm only half charged on my battery. If I hold REAL STILL I might be able to make it through this entry, but I'll keep it short and sweet.

The first gift of the day defies description. Ever since the New Year started there has just been this incredible WHOOSH of energy moving through me. I don't think I'm alone in feeling it, New Year's typically is one of your throbbingly anticipatory holidays. All those resolutions and vows and new gym memberships and what not.

For me though it's coming out in a rush of words. I've been writing, writing, writing. Letters to friends, online journal entries, comments on things other people have written. It's just running through my fingers as fast as I can type it out. Last night I was wiped out and went to bed around midnight, only to wake up two hours later for more writing. I wrote all night until dawn filled the room and then I slept again... for another two hours. When I awoke my body was just vibrating. I had been having a vivid dream, where some transformation was taking place and when I woke, I reached my fingers to the keyboard and wrote this description, which I thought would be notes to embellish on later, but they became this poem instead.

I didn't sleep even though I was punchy because my body was humming along at such an awake frequency it sort of pegged the meter to 11. I wasn't wired, I wasn't caffeinated or high or drunk or altered by a substance... I was just vibrating.

I called a friend who I had arranged to go to a party with later in the afternoon and told her the short version of what was happening. Fortunately she's a spiritual practitioner as I am, so she didn't question any of it, she just heard I had only two hours of sleep under my belt and said, "Okay. I'll drive then."

The party was wonderful. I was pretty loopy, but we laughed and laughed and laughed in our little group. One of the women said, "I've been reading you on Facebook, I really like what you are doing with the 29 Gifts challenge." And I said, "Oh yes! I have to give a gift today! What have I given? What shall I give?" Another one of the women in the circle told me I'd given her the gift of complete irreverence. I encouraged her to go out on a limb, override her tendency to be the good girl and just step up and ask for what she wanted. Truthfully I think she knows darn well how to do it all the time and DOES, but oh my gosh how much louder and more raucous could we have been? Again... who needs drugs when you have this kind of intoxicating freedom to be yourself full out with the encouragement, support and full approval of your friends?

Once I post this message I will begin a two hour shift on our spiritual communities prayer line. I hadn't been working in the ministry for awhile because I had a 6.5 hour commitment as a rape crisis advocate once a week for a year prior to this, but that commitment ended and I am back to giving the gift of prayer instead.

So I made it through this post without the battery going dead and no editing. Go me!

Gotta see if I can't find a place on line to buy a new cord pronto because the cord is actually very hot and I don't think dats good!

We sally forth with Day 3 tomorrow...