Taken in Atlanta in April 2009
Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you. — Ester Hicks here of Abraham-Hicks
In late March, I finally received clarity around my next writing project.
Part of my practice around this project is to do a bit of meditation in the morning and then journal, receiving whatever wisdom comes from my muse/guide/spirit.
A frequent theme that shows up in my journal is around ease, trust and flow: "All will be revealed in perfect time." "...this will unfold easily for you." "It doesn't have to be all work, it can be fun." "Just trust and be."
On a deep level, I know this is truth. This is how life works, how nature works.
When I look at a flower, I just marvel at what a miracle a flower is:
How the flower transforms from seed to stalk to bloom. How its seed-body knows to create many small yellow flowers and just the right shape of leaves. How it trusts it has the support of the sun, the rain and the planets for every step of its journey.
I know that this new project offers me the chance to be like a flower.
But my old way of working is just that, work. Driving, pushing, hard, stressing, forcing. It's exhausting to be like that. And so very contrary to how energy and the universe works.
So I'm viewing this project as an opportunity for my spiritual growth: To trust that this seed of an idea has its own wisdom and right timing. To know that I don't have to do this all on my own. To drop down my oars and allow the current to carry me downstream.
I'm reminded of these lines from one of my favorite Mary Oliver poems, Wild Geese:
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me, how you can trust the nature order of life to carry you today?
P.S. Speaking of working with the forces of nature, I bought a wonderful gardening calendar this year, Gardening by the Moon. And it shows through tuning into the lunar phases and astrological signs, the best times to sow, plant and harvest. Highly recommended.
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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.