Perspective

A practitioner I work with shared this with her email list, and it really resonated with me. I don't know the author at all, but I felt like she was speaking to my very soul! I hope it serves you well. If it does, please feel free to pass it on, making sure to include the author's name.

Now more than ever, it is so important for us to focus on the light that is *always* coming in, even when we feel like we are in total darkness. Sending love and comfort to you all.

"Sometimes you have to wait

in the dark

For what seems like forever

Stuck

Certain no progress is being made,

not even a little growth

Nothing seems alive

You, least of all

It doesn’t even feel like waiting, truth be told,

since waiting implies an end in sight —

and you haven’t seen one of those

in ages.

You’re sure you’ve been abandoned

Forgotten

It seems as though your own soul may have deserted you

But then one day

A day you didn’t think would come —

The smallest of cracks appears

Then the crack turns into an opening

Then the opening a breaking free.

Maybe it was the way the sun hit,

or how the rain fell

or how the planets aligned

or maybe something deep within you simply knew: NOW.

It’s not just that you’ve come back to life, though...

You’re different.

The life within you feels humbler, since you know you know less now.

And more grounded, since your roots were quietly growing deep, this whole time.

You understand now, there was something happening,

something profound

in that slow and tedious germination.

It’s a miracle, isn’t it?

How even in the longest and most brutal of winters

thousands of seeds are plotting

a most magnificent spring."

-Leyla Aylin