Flowering Fridays: Trusting the Process
Friday, May 15, 2009 at 2:42PM 
Raunculus blooming, April 2009
I was going to write about knowing your type today. But then I got a different message:
Trust the process.
Three times this morning I received this (from two different conversations and from my automatic journaling with my muse/guide).
So I am going to trust that this is the message I most need to share — for myself and for everyone who will find this post.
One of the things I love about flowers is how they trust in their unfoldment.
It's something I write about it a lot on this blog.
Like a lot alot.
Like here. And here. And here. And here.
Actually, probably every Flowering Fridays post is about the universal truths that can found in a flower's blooming.
How each flower is uniquely beautiful. How each flower must trust its journey to reach full-flower. How every flower is divinely supported in its becoming. And how the journey is individual to each flower.
I have been studying biography work for almost three years under teacher Linda Bergh.
Biography is out of Rudolf Steiner's teachings that view life as a soul journey. Through charting your life in seven-year phases, meditations, and artistic work, one can discover the themes present in your life and the themes that your soul is here to learn and grow from. (Note: I'm greatly simplifying here.)
There have been myriad insights for me out of my experience with biography, but perhaps the biggest gift has been seeing there is an indeed an unfolding at work at my life.
Nothing is random.
Out of biography, I have discovered there is a higher order at work. I have found a new-found trust and friendship for my life and for all the people and experiences I have had.
Which is, for me, ultimately about trusting the process of my life.
And when I trust the process — trust that the right experiences, people, opportunities, teachings, and action will come to me at just the right moment (and not a moment sooner) — there is a beauty, poetry and magic to life.
It's where our life becomes a flowering and where the most amazing blooms can occur.
During my automatic writing this morning, I was given this message to share with you ("you can tell your blog this," is what I took down.):
You have more love and support around you than you realize — this is true for everyone.
I'll admit that this is an orientation that is new for me to fully embrace. I've spent much of my life, up until recently, doubting this.
But I am finding that this is indeed a friendly universe, and we are supported — just like the flowers — every step of the way.
Tell me, how you can trust more fully in the process of your life?
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Flowering Fridays is a weekly look at flowers through the lens of what they might teach us about flowering fully in our life. Past editions are here.
Reader Comments (7)
For me, that trust is always available to me in my center...when I can tune out the rest of the world, stop seeing it in fast motion, breathe into the present moment and....relax.
A universal truth that is happening each day over the last week has been a rock rose plant. The white flowers open in the morning, and petals fall off in the evening. New flowers bloom in the morning, and petals fall off in the evening.
They help me to know the universal truth that I hear often, "enjoy today", "be here now."
Rejoicing in Today Photo
Christine, Yes, that truth is always available in our center. My opportunity to remember to connect into that in the moment. Thanks for sharing!
Hugs,
Shannon
Bill, thank you for sharing this…
What I love the most is your noticing of the rock rose. (Such a beautiful plant — thanks for the photo!) And I know we are kindred souls in looking to the plant kingdom as supremely wise teachers for life.
Be here now, indeed!
Shannon
Wow, this is such a wonderful post, Shannon - and reinforcement for my decisions to "trust" the next steps in my life. Even the ones I don't know about. I've passed this along to a few of my friends and family - thank you!
Exactly. This post is amazing. Thank you for sharing this.
Susan & T, Thanks so much for commenting…It helps me to truly step into trusting the process (in this case, trusting what to write about) even more!!
And Susan, thanks for sharing with your family and friends, I'm honored!!
:-)
Shannon