The Winds of Change
This has been an uncomfortable week. My breath, shallow. A need to grab hold of something….anything…. that will help give me reason to the feelings of disarray that linger.
Like stepping into a dressing room, I’ve tried on many different reasons for the angst I feel. Election? Yup. Time change? Absolutely. Halloween hangover? Maybe a little. End of Mercury in retrograde? Yes…my gadgets have been flaky. All of this as a perfect storm? Ok. sure.
But as I listen, I still feel more. There is something gnawing in my gut. While HOPE and CHANGE celebrate, discomfort looms in the corner. Change, by definition, means “To make something or someone different; to alter or modify. What does this look like and feel like for our country? What does this look like for me? For you?
We are changing. No doubt. We will heal. Hell yes! Our nation and it’s people are ready to honor and LOVE that what is true. Our truth. Our nation’s truth. Our people’s truth. We are no longer accepting a stagnant, almost flatlined existence still giving life support to a broken system. We are ready.
But what does that mean for us as individuals? Is this an invitation for us to shift, change and heal as well? Can we take some time to knock down some of our own walls?
If you’ve been a reader of my stuff or not…. I am a huge LOVER of the outward, inward contemplations of life. I constantly ask why? I constantly go inward to wonder. I constantly ask “is this part of my truth?” “Am I in alignment with me?”
So, as our country heals…. what can you heal? I will conclude with this…. that gnaw I spoke of… that gnaw is a beckoning of truth. That gnaw is a call to heal. That gnaw is a reminder that it feels uncomfortable and brave and vulnerable to do this work. And if we are asking for this healing OUTWARD, can we show up and look to heal INWARD?
This is exciting and beautiful and scary….. but be the butterfly. Picture the push and pull and kick and shove as this remarkable creature emerges from it’s chrysalis. If nature can do it, why can’t we?
