Disruptions Enhance

"What we no longer know what to do,

we have come to our real work and

when we no longer know which way to go,

we have begun our real journey."

Wendell Berry

Life is not always timely or necessarily to our liking. Perhaps we had preferred things to unfold in a different stage of our life or when living at a different location. If we are not being our best self, meaning not having an awareness from a higher level, our energies might shift to negative emotions and resistance.

When there are enough years behind us to survey, we can see how an unexpected diversion stressing us out, led to a different perspective or a new approach to an old routine. Somewhere along the line, we began to view change as bad, and our emotions immediately started supporting that concept. 

In viewing flowers in nature, we see how beauty slowly unfolds. Each flower takes its time pushing upwards, forming a tight bud, and gently opening. Individually, they stretch to follow the sun and bravely weathers storms. We are expected to do the same. In truth, change may be disruptive, but it can enhance us on numerous levels.

 

Road Maps Nor the Moon

I hear my song at last,

and I sing it. As we sing

the day turns, the trees move.

Wendell Berry

Loving Kindness Meditations are helping to corral my thoughts, and allow my fragmented body to be still.  With self-compassion I turn inward listening for the voice to guide me home.  It is a difficult task.

My thirst is not quenched by water nor my need for connection completed by touch.  There is this silent yearning moving my presence deeper within.  Road maps do not apply nor the position of the moon.  

It is a gentle non-physical movement guiding me forward outside of time or space.  As I trust, leaving all perceptions behind me, non-existence explodes before me.  In my mind's eye there is an all consuming radiance resonating within my soul.  And then I begin to hear my song ...