On 21st June 2021 we were invited to come together as community to clear up debris left behind after the devastating fire of the sanctuary in the early hours of 12th April.
There was a container in place to deposit the charred wood and other remains. It was a solemn task, made easier by the fellowship of shared grief and the determination to go forward in faith that good will come of this destruction.
Sylvia and I did our bit in the clearing when we suddenly came across a bundle of burnt paper. On close inspection it was what was left over from one of the books of Eileen’s guidance. It just felt wrong to condemn it to the dump.
We then were moved to take also three pieces of charred wood back to our home, Caledonia. What unfolded was a simple ceremony of creating a memento, planting seeds of resilience and continuity.
Two smaller pieces of charred wood are planted in the garden. The third one wanted to join an existing memento to the purple benches which were the seating in the Universal Hall until their replacement in 2012.
As we were standing in front of the metal frames which had been arranged in 2012 to form a sunburst when looked at from a certain angle, we ‘knew’ that the piece of the sanctuary wall, still showing lots of the purple paint, wanted to be ‘planted’ with those frames on top of the burnt guidance. Some charred pieces wanted to stay behind, the rest we dropped into the hole.
As we were doing this right next to the path up to the Universal Hall, others joined us in a brief blessing and attunement as we finished off.
Looking at the burnt guidance a few days later with my spiritual group, we shared about the impact they had on us. One said: “Eileen’s guidance doesn’t often do it for me, but this way, it really hits home. Somehow the charred extracts are more pure, more powerful.”
Originally German, I came to Findhorn in the search of ‘It’. I found ‘It’ in our way of sharing our spirituality in our daily lives, privileged to work with my focus on Healing in the widest sense.
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