Introduction

Well i guess the polite thing to do is to introduce myself and explain a little about the name of this blog!!!

I am leti - writer, poet, occasional mystic, and ordinand-in-care for ministry with the Metropolitan Community Church. Food and shelter is paid for by working at a university doing health and wellbeing consultations and teaching group exercise as well as freelance work running courses for Paths to Health. Having enjoyed the process of writing a blog for the 40 days leading up to my 40th birthday i have decided to start another blog as part of my spiritual practice of journalling. I hope to write an entry on a daily basis, commenting on my day, making some observations on my spiritual reading, prayer time, therapy... I would love you to accompany me, adding your comments (if you haven't encountered Blogger before simply create an account and you're set!), and praying with me.

So where did the name of the blog come from? I have just returned from Texas where i had travelled to participate in REVM (Readiness to Enter the Vocational Ministry). We were at a church camp in the hill country by the River Guadalupe, which is very popular with folk who go "tubing" down it, so there is a gate between the camp and the river which is kept locked. We were given a key so that we could access the river and we decided to keep the key on top of the piano, the phrase that was used being "the key to the river is on the piano"!!! I wrote it down in my journal immediately and am grateful to the Muse for giving it to me for my blog...

There was a labyrinth at the camp that i walked at dawn, this being the only time of the day that was cool and relatively mosquito-free. It was amazing walking to the sound of cicadas, crickets, cardinals, grackles and with vultures soaring overhead... I walked with an open heart and my question was simple - What should i do? and the answer i was given? Well, it was Wait and see...

Finding the key to the river of life through music, meditation, reading, sharing, loving will perhaps be revealed but i can't force it... I need to keep reminding myself to wait and see...