I can do this all day -- Your Soul's Purpose

Captain America: The First Avenger

We meet Steve Rogers before he becomes Captain America.  He is a small, skinny, nobody who can not even get into the army because of asthma and other medical conditions.  He tries and tries and tries. (To view this scene, click on the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCVXiNvQaxI​)

We meet him after his fourth attempt to get into the army.  After being denied he goes to a movie.  Back then movies began, not with the slew of previews we are used to, but something about the war happening in Europe.  Through this news-reel there is a voice that keeps asking to “Start the movie.”  This voice is disrespecting the soldiers who are fighting for their lives, for justice, for freedom.

Steve Rogers becomes so upset that he calls it out.  We see him next getting pounded by the guy in the corner of a back alley.  The line that Steve Rogers is known for throughout the many Captain America and Avengers movies is said for the first time: “I can do this all day.”

Each hit, each time he is knocked to the ground, he pops back up.  He will not give up.  Something inside him is driving him.  Something we can not see.  

“I can do this all day!”

That line has been reverberating around my heart and soul since last week, asking me one question:  What is it in your life that brings forth this statement:  “I can do this all day!”?  What can I do all day?

I would like to say, fight for justice.

But the reality is:

eat chocolate
watch the beauty of the New Mexican skies
listen to the birds sing
notice the beauty of the plants and flowers around me

​Then there are the rough days when, if I am being truthful, when what can I do all day means:

watching Netflix or Amazon Prime
with plenty of sugary yumminess (Ben and Jerry's really)
so as to numb myself from the challenges, the struggles that are in front of me (whether it is spiritual, emotional, physical, civic etc)

I admire the archetype of Steve Rogers, that inner confidence and strength that knows and can “do this all day!” in order to accomplish his soul purpose.

So I invited Spirit and my Soul to bring forth for me an answer to the question, "What can I do all day?"  What is my Soul inviting to ‘do all day…’ even when it is hard?

​A line from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene’s Dialogue One came forth:  “It is for this reason that I told you to find contentment at the level of the heart, and if you are discouraged, take heart in the presence of the Image of your true nature.  Those with ears, let them hear…” (Cynthia Bourgeau, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, chapter 4)

Those who have ears, let them hear…

The Image that Jesus is talking about is that purest, highest reflection of the Sacred that is in the center of the center of the center of our hearts.  This Image is our Highest Selves, it is our Soul’s purpose.

​As I sat with this:  What can I do all day?

My Soul said, “Your Soul’s Purpose”

Why can Steve Rogers take being beaten up again and again and still say: “I can do this all day”?  Because, as you watch his character develop through the many Marvel movies, you begin to notice that the Image that is Steve Rogers is one that has a greater purpose than himself.  His Image invites him beyond himself to make a difference in the world.  Over the arc of the movies he struggles with what that difference is, always being grounded in the moral center of Life, Compassion and Justice — the Image of the Sacred that shines forth from him and each of us.

What can I do all day?  I can be a Beacon of Light that offers compassion.

At my recent continuing education conference, CREDO, my mission statement came forth more clearly than ever, like Spirit was saying, “Jocelyn, you can do this all day!”

What is it?  

It is to companion others in their spiritual awakening and soul-volution toward unification (Oneing) with their Soul, Source, and the Sacred grounded in the mystical desert spirituality.

When I sit with that, my heart, my soul, my whole being says:

I can do this all day!!!

What can you do all day?

What is your Soul purpose?