The Song of Simeon (Luke 2:29-32) sounds a note of joy in a fulfilled personal promise from God and then connects it to a salvation for the wider world. Have you ever had such a connection with God? How do we connect the “I” of our being with the “We” of those around us, and then with the “World” as a person/people of Faith? Have you ever had a “Song” like Simeon, Mary or Zechariah?
Simeon – Painting by Rembrandt. Image courtesy of the Queen of Angels Foundation.
Profound intuitive insights are often “mountain top” experiences in that it is from the ecstatic heights of those events we can touch the sacred yet it is also from there we may be gifted with a 360 degree view that more deeply connects us to the reality around us. However, it may take time for the clouds to clear on the mountain top before we can see the grander view.
Sometimes, the personal experience may be so complex and so disruptive to one’s life that the person will need a long while to develop the “song” that he or she can give back to the world. It often takes time to understand the meaning of the personal gift. Sometimes, an initiation or education is required to understand how this experience fits into the greater context of one’s life before one can present one’s gift to the world that is characterized by the song.
This is exactly what happened to me with my kundalini event when I experienced, along with the release of powerful energy, an oral intuitive insight. I heard a gentle but quite authoritative voice say “I have chosen you.” While I was never told specifically what I was chosen for, dreams have suggested certain tasks. Seven years later, I am still trying to discover what I have been chosen for while I try to pursue a spiritual path with every choice I make. One thing I know very clearly is that what I do and the choices I make must serve a higher purpose in line with my ideal. These choices in turn connect me with the wider world. I trust my song will include the choices I make on a daily basis that reflect my highest ideal.
One Purpose for Visions and Intuitive Insights
Sometimes one can only trust that one has made the right choices and it will come out all right in the end, as it did for Simeon. He must have lived for a long time with nothing more than his choice to trust and hope in the revelation he received. One wonders how this divine inspiration transformed him personally. Certainly, it gave him clarity of sight to recognize the redeemer in a little infant. In a dark time of spiritual decay and foreign oppression, Simeon was the perhaps just one of the few bearers of a saving vision for his people. When he saw the truth of his vision in the flesh he was then able to sing his song to the world. The Song of Simeon underscores the importance of holding on to intuitive insight in time of adversity. I personally believe this is one of many reasons why we are given visions in the first place: to get us through the hard times.
Holding on to a vision keeps us steady in the difficult business of undergoing transformation. The new awareness arising from the struggles of our transformation is the song we will give others.
Related articles
- Luke 1: On Visions and Faith: A Comparison of Zechariah’s and Mary’s Responses to the Angel Gabriel (frankramer.wordpress.com)
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