A Sacred Reaping

"Let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no"

Life ebbs and flows, and right now, a season of Reaping feels to be.

When I say Reaping, I don’t mean gathering in the sense to harvest, but rather, a removal of things that we no longer want rooted in our soil.

I sat outside this morning smoking the first cigarette of the day. It was quiet outside, rare for living in an urban area.

I remembered something.

I told one of my relatives, who is now in town, that the next time they saw me, I would be a non-smoker.

I am going to see this relative of mine in two days.

Yet, here I am, smoking?

The word is important. I gave him my word back in April. I figured surely, this alone would be enough to quit smoking. If you don’t have your word, you have nothing.

I planned on quitting smoking in October (last month). Of course this is an excuse, but I dealt with two hurricanes, one full evacuation, and the suicide of a loved one within a two week span (from Sept 26 to Oct 10) so, let’s just say quitting nicotine was NOT on my priority list.

Yet here we are, and it is November.

So, I prayed.

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I know that no matter the circumstance, keeping the word is important, and what consequence would there be for violating such a thing?

I wondered to myself what the Law of Karma and what God would think. I thought of Saturn.