With Serenity, Dear Universe –
Today is starting overcast but bright, after an epic night of lightning and thunderstorms. The rumblings boomed overhead, and the flashes lit up the room, as I fell fast asleep. Another time, I may have just sat and watched the exciting show, but last night I was ready for sleep.
Last night’s rest on my Sleep Scale: 4.5/5. It was pretty good, although I was up a few times during the night, but went almost right back to sleep. Yet, when my alarm went off at 7 a.m., I was still tired, and I continued to doze until 8 a.m. Even then, when I did get up, I still felt a little tired, like I could sleep even longer.
Maybe this vision of the perfect sleep is a fantasy. I wonder. I know I’ve observed, in other aspects of my life, that idealizing and waiting for perfection has immobilized me; that I’ve gotten stuck behind fears of failure and success, and not being good enough.
And, I’ve learned that the Reality of Imperfection is really the Spark of Life and Creativity.
It’s like the tiniest charge of electricity that’s generated as each of our cells respire. Within the gap between one state and the other – inhale and exhale, oxygenated and deoxygenated – there lives potential, and that potential is energy.
That energy is life, and it is change. It’s so important to understand that the constant change, and the dance between states and that gap within, are the expression and energy of Living, itself.
We are, as much because of the gap between What Is and What Can Be, and the energy that gap delivers to us; as because of who we think ourselves to be at any moment.
The flowing River of Life is perfectly full and enough, even as it is constantly changing.
For today, Dear One, a Prompt:
Visit your sit spot today, and meditate on change.
Start with a focus on your breathing, next find your peace within, and then ground yourself to the Nature around you.
As you proceed with your meditation, drift to some of the most recent challenges you’ve faced. Float above the emotions that you felt, and just watch from the eagle-eye of your Observer self.
Notice how your challenges have catalyzed change and growth within you; the metamorphosis of your butterfly spirit.
Rest and unrest. Do and not-do. To be or not to be. Those are the questions, My Dear Guides. And, in that investigation, I discover my Fullest Life! Buen Camino, Peregrino!
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