Whitney Houston died on Saturday.
Sunday I offered the first session of the Contribution course (the Tuesday sessions begin tomorrow).
The singer’s death brought a sobering truth to the understanding of contribution: You can make your contribution and not be happy or healthy, physically, emotionally or spiritually.
When Whitney Houston was on stage and singing she was fulfilling her destiny as a contributor. She was also doing her job, earning her living and meeting her responsibilities.
Yet, Whitney wasn’t happy and she wasn’t healthy. Even when life was hell, she could get up on stage, fake it until the moments came when she was the song, she was her contribution, she was free and she was love. These moments radiated with her inner divinity and all her messy suffering disappeared.
But most of her life was she was not the song, she was the on-stage performer and the off-stage addict who could never get enough to feel whole and real and happy. She was swallowed up by her talents, her story, her neurochemistry, and very distant from her destiny.
We are grateful for her contribution. We have compassion for her life.
Whitney Houston had a talent that was very visible even as a very young child. Her talent was recognized, developed, supported and expressed fully.
When your gift is not so visible… when you do not see it and cannot name it, even though you feel it… when you fantasize how good life would be if you could just be your song… remember the dramatic polarities of Whitney Houston.
From a spiritual perspective, knowing and fulfilling your contribution is not about you and your happiness. It is about the contribution itself. Your contribution is about unselfish love. There is no agenda or attachment in you and your will to contribute, for recognition, reciprocity or reward.
Whitney sang about this in her heart-wrenching “I Will Always Love You.”
I hope life treats you kind
And I hope
you have all you’ve dreamed of
And I wish you joy
and happiness
But above all this
I wish you love
The love that is more than joy and happiness and all you have dreamed of is your contribution.
In my course on Contribution, we seek to awaken the soul clarity that allows us to develop our gift, the path that leads us to our moments of destiny when we are the living manifestation of love. If you would like to join this program, send me an email (there are currently technical difficulties in my online store)
Whitney sang about this manifestation:
“One Moment In Time”
Each day I live
I want to be
A day to give
The best of me
I’m only one
But not alone
My finest day
Is yet unknownI broke my heart
Fought every gain
To taste the sweet
I face the pain
I rise and fall
Yet through it all
This much remainsI want one moment in time
When I’m more than I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
And the answers are all up to me
Give me one moment in time
When I’m racing with destiny
Then in that one moment of time
I will feel
I will feel eternityI’ve lived to be
The very best
I want it all
No time for less
I’ve laid the plans
Now lay the chance
Here in my handsGive me one moment in time
When I’m more than I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
And the answers are all up to me
Give me one moment in time
When I’m racing with destiny
Then in that one moment of time
I will feel
I will feel eternityYou’re a winner for a lifetime
If you seize that one moment in time
Make it shineGive me one moment in time
When I’m more than I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
And the answers are all up to me
Give me one moment in time
When I’m racing with destiny
Then in that one moment of time
I will be
I will be
I will be free
I will be
I will be free
When you bring your attention to Whitney Houston feel the love she contributed to the world. Don’t dwell on the her dramas. Join the beings of the spiritual world who celebrate every moment that a human being lifts the veils of karma-bearing story and shines with freedom and love. Whitney had her moments.
If you want to engage in an intensive program on the Inner Winter mysteries of Work, Contribution and Destiny, do register for the Imagine Your Contribution course which begins in a just a couple of days – (This Sunday at noon Eastern or Tuesday, Feb 14 at 8PM Eastern.)
