Dawn was obscured this morning by thick clouds. \u00a0The world lightened, but still the day is so short. \u00a0The cold is coming, the after effect of the dark. \u00a0When the light comes, even in increments, even in a dull gray instead of a full golden burst it changes everything.<\/p>\n
I often meditate in the spring on the bulbs in the ground. \u00a0They are nestled in the cold and dark. \u00a0Every year the new season comes and coaxes them out of the ground. \u00a0What must it feel like to be immersed in the darkness and find yourself changing\u2026your body changing from starch to sugar, the ground around you softening and somewhere beyond you, far beyond you is an irresistible force that draws you out into a new form of yourself. \u00a0Does it take courage for the flower to blindly reach out or is it a kind of delightful self giving? \u00a0I often ponder in this season of returning light, the things\u00a0that draw me out of myself. \u00a0What are the ways I am stretching toward that presence? \u00a0Why does the move toward that simultaneously feel terrifying and inherently right? \u00a0The spiritual journey always moves us through this reflection. \u00a0What is life? \u00a0Where do I feel it\u2019s presence? \u00a0How do I say yes and no to it\u2019s invitation? \u00a0And once we have journeyed into that knowing, it moves beyond us and leaves us with the questions again. \u00a0When we set out to grow into more love and life, we are seeking to be defeated by greater and greater things. \u00a0We are seeking the next more complicated level of experience, surrender and being.<\/p>\n
Today we celebrate and welcome back the light even as we add another layer of winter clothing to sustain us till spring. \u00a0Today we are being imperceptibly drawn into something more that we likely won\u2019t even see in ourselves for quite some time. \u00a0Our task as always is to be compassionate and gentle with ourselves when we say no. \u00a0To say yes where we can. \u00a0To let life and spirit move in, through and beyond us for the increase of all.<\/p>\n
The light returns. \u00a0The Light is in you. \u00a0The Light is you. \u00a0Yes!<\/p>\n
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