The Spiritual Spa Day and Q&A with John Morton, bi-lingual, hosted by the MSIA Spanish community, began with calling ourselves into the Light. The tone of loving is present and the room is filled with Spirit as we chant Ani-Hu, a Sanskrit word that calls forth compassion & the divine within us and around us. The vibration of loving colors the space with purple splashes of light and rhythmic spirals going upward expanding into a golden thread. The sound of love weaves us together, calling forth a natural sweetness that surrenders to the experience of freedom and oneness.

We are graced with John Morton as our facilitator and Maria Jose Maranon as our translator for the Spanish speaking community. John begins his sharing with a clear invitation into the language of love as the expression of our divine heritage. He shared about J-R and how he had encouraged the MSIA community to learn Spanish and vice versa. He invited us to slip into the silence between thoughts and words, where everything begins in the invisible. John shared the language of love that transcends words.

Maria Jose began a symbiotic flow of translation riding on John’s coat tail — stalking the Spirit with sheer elegance and majesty. I remember a moment where John Morton used baseball as a demonstration. He stood up and put his arms in position to hit a home run on the playing field. Maria Jose stood up beside John as if the synergistic energy had picked her up and out of her chair, onto her fabulous high heels. In a blink of an eye she was standing in position to hit the baseball out of the park. It was amazing to witness one accord manifesting right before my eyes. I sat on the edge of my chair enjoying the experience of expansion inside of myself and then as big as universes — spilling over into a love as ancient as time.

I reminisced about people I’d loved and honored by listening, observing and speaking a loving tone. I thought of the children I’d worked with, diagnosed with autism, who were non-verbal, and how their first language was silence. When I was present with my kids, their silence communicated more clarity than any words that could have been spoken. I thought of all the times I’d heard words riding on the frequency of loving and how the experience of this lived in my heart often.
I drank in every word in English and then in Spanish. I gracefully slipped into the experience of divine communion as a way of communicating with myself and others. I imagined that my heart expression went before any thought, word or action I shared inside or out. As the workshop evolved I found enjoyment in practicing borrowing God’s eyes, voice, touch, and way of being in the world and beyond. If I were an instrument of God’s creation what reality would manifest through me? I heard “love story” in my silence.

I remember nurturing sounds. I hear my grandmother’s voice saying my name, church bells ringing and the wind howling just before a storm. There is something amazing that comes forward when words ride on the energy of love. Right before my grandmother died, she said to me, “I am proud of you.” The tone of her voice, the pause between her words and the memory of loving pouring through the phone, as God loving me through my grandmother, still gives me heartfelt chills.
I ponder. What if every word that meets the air has interwoven in it God’s holy thoughts?

My experience of MSIA is that we practice the language of love and move as a spiral going up into the heavens, anchoring a miraculous home inside ourselves. In the space of loving, the ordinary is extraordinary, and the consciousness of “As above so below and as below so above” moves into the forefront. If I were to write a love story, I’d begin it with the sound of nature speaking in my silence, an ancient tree whispering eternity in my ear. I’d dive into the abyss of love unraveling itself in my silence and translating into the language of loving. I’d imagine the picture of lions napping with sheep.

John Morton leaves us with an invitation to speak the words of God. He reminds us, “There is a presence called the Mystical Traveler and I am one and so are you.”