I stood still in the woods and looked up at the sky. Gazed up through the gap in the canopy and felt stillness wash over me. Cornflower blue and cottontail white, gently moving and holding space for all life to exist. It occurred to me that you cannot love the sky without loving all versions of it, for it all makes the whole. You cannot pick and choose the blue and white and reject the dark thunder clouds and the rain, because together they complete the repertoire that is the sky. Life then is about making space for the whole. Allowing it all. There will be times of intense thunder and lightning, when the heavy rain has soaked through the happy memories leaving you feeling alone and without hope. But these times are just as valid as the times when there is just the right amount of sun, lazily floating clouds, and a loving, gentle breeze that makes your body beam with happiness. The experience of life is about letting both those states be what they will. When you can learn to be in the rain and be grateful for it, whilst retaining the hope for a future filled with sun, that’s where the real mastery occurs. When you can stand in the face of another’s storm without running away in fear, that brings forth the full power of love and compassion that can transform lives.
I feel like I am standing under a rain cloud, my howls lost in the tornado winds, and my tears dismissed by the torrential rain. I have stood here a while feeling lost, wondering why me, angry and bereft at the absence of the sun. But after a while, when nothing changes, the feeling of allowing creeps in, the acceptance of what is. If I can learn to stand here and to love it, forgive it, be grateful for it, put up an umbrella if I need to, and wait, then in the stillness I sense that I am truly one with all, and all is one with me. Then I feel an inner strength returning, because I know I can survive this, that all parts of me are here, and they are perfect. I am not unlucky, unworthy, singled out, or failing. If the sky can encompass all things, then it must include all parts of me too, in whatever state they’re in, for I am part of the whole. And from that standpoint, this can’t be wrong, and that is right. It’s all as it’s meant to be. It all simply..is.
And with that understanding you see that each moment is purely that, a moment. Some are fleeting, brief snapshots of time, others more prolonged, taking effort to endure, but each individual and unique. Often loving the present, allowing it to be, while holding hope for something better, is all you need to do to bring forward a moment of your choosing. So life teaches you to take each moment for what it is. Take this one and fully immerse yourself in the joy, whilst holding the understanding that it will leave you. Then take the next one and allow the pain to flow through you while holding the hope that the sun will appear at the next turn. It’s not an easy thing to do by any means, but at this intense time of challenge when we are all purging the emotional wounds from deep in our past that no longer serve our highest good, it is important to realise that the way out of the rain is to love it, to forgive it, to accept the feelings of disappointment and sadness that it causes within you, and to just allow it to be what it is, without judgement.
Moving forward into the frequencies of the next level of consciousness encourages us to not only acknowledge the existence of polarity, but to be balanced at both ends of the scale. When you can breathe into and be with both the positive and the negative, then you enter the potent stillpoint of reality where you truly are one with all things. And in that stillpoint lies the purest form of love you can imagine. Your chemistry is then forever changed so that you begin to see the beauty in all things, see the lessons that people are trying to learn through their unconscious actions, and you are able to throw light into every dark corner of your being without fear, without anger, and without condemnation. So look up at the sky, feel the wind, or the rain, or the sun. Stand and allow it all to be just as it is. Find the resonant stillpoint within you, and allow it to show you the reflection of the beauty that lies within you too.