Deoch Mass 3-23-2022 - Possibility (Part 2)

At mass several moons back, I spoke to the misconception many had about what divine gift Deoch bestowed to Aisling kind.

On some level the gods are unknowable to us, so mistaken interpretation is understandable. At the time it was reasonable to assume that Deoch, the newly dubbed God of Inspiration, would have included a drop of his divine providence into his effort to finish the work that Danaan left behind.

I concluded last mass saying that Deoch’s true divine gift was the gift of possibility. The gift of the sleeping spirit to be born again in a new world, free of the expectations of their waking life. Truly, the most divine of gifts.

At this point in Temuair’s history, does this matter? And I say which has always been the case: possibility for the Aisling is the possibility for Temuair. I wish my peers to realize that possibility exists for Temuair even now. The future has always been what we make of it.

We cannot bring back the past. I learned this long ago and I have watched others struggle mightily with this fact ever since. I now strive to embrace that which _is_ possible.

There are many Aislings with no desire to interact with religious worship, to bring forth new ideas into our political spaces, to teach or be taught in the college, and no desire to be part of a greater community. However, because someone is born without the creative inspiration burning to contribute to these spaces… does not mean that it cannot be found or fostered. That is the power of this ‘possibility’.

It falls to us that remain to show these Aislings and any that are born from here forward that this dream is full of possibilities to which they have never considered in their waking form. Engage them in conversation, invite them to participate in these things unique to our community… searching for any spark of interest and encourage it to grow into a flame. Reach through timidness and reticence with guidance and invigoration. Do this and you may be surprised what inspiration springs forth from the formerly uninspired

I say in closing: 

Embrace the possibility of others and of this place as this has always been the underlying secret to Temuair’s greatness.