Lessons from Mother Nature?
Mother Nature is an effective teacher when we are willing to learn. By observing her cycles we come to understand how life dances within us.
The tide reaches the power of ebbing and flowing, the moon that of waxing and waning. Both show that the expression of fullness and of lessening are two parts of one movement.
It is the same with witnessing the shifting between day and night and the changing of the seasons, for we understand that we have cycles too. Change is inevitable in this physical world.
No cycle is ever exactly the same, but I think it’s more of a spiral than a circle. We hopefuly move upward, seeing with new eyes the gifts of the “season.”
Just as the changing colors of the leaves this fall are a kaleidoscope of patterns, so in this autumn season of my life, each of the circumstances, opportunities, and insights come to me new.
In our lives we move between contracting and expanding, completing and starting. We have a season for doing and one for thinking. When we release the old, the new can come forth just like we breathe in and exhale out.
It’s natural, it’s easy, and it’s just as it should be!
And the ever-more-amazing gift is that we have so much choice. We can always be more than we have been. We can be stronger. We can be kinder. We can be wiser. All by choosing to be so!
The gifts in each day of our lives are precious. We need to treasure the gifts and revel in the process!
Enjoy it all!
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Lovely blog! We do go through seasons in our lives, and that is what brings joy and peace to our lives.
I live now in an independent senior living facility. Each morning, as I go to my second floor deck, I notice the sky, in its ever-changing beauty. I see my life as scattered, wispy clouds or as an overcast,dreary sky, and I know for sure that it is continual change if I trust Mother Nature and am patient with Her.