~ Before you read this maybe you could take a moment to take a deep breath in, hold it for a second, and then slowly let it out. Then you could picture yourself in the most beautiful place you have ever been out in nature. After doing so you are more ready to read this: ~
'Thoughts on Nature ~ Of things I have known since I was a child ~ I would sit quietly in the middle of a field surrounded by tall grass and wild flowers feeling empty and uncared for and so deeply sad. As I sad in the field, or by a creek, or walked along a country road, things inside would slowly shift and hope would come simply because of the beauty and mystery ever before me. It would somehow nurture my spirit and clean my soul. Now as I stumble through days, seasons, years, often with blurred vision and burdened shoulders, there will be moments where once again a hillside of ferns will uplift me, or a sunset will renew my soul, or a glimpse of wild ones free and happy in their unfettered state...will help me through that time. It is something I cling to, that I appreciate. So in that vein of though this is what I wrote:
All of Creation starts with a seed ~ a joining in togetherness ~ whether it's a seed joining soil and water and sun, or a seed and an egg joining as one, a seed must be present. All of Creation starts with an unseen promise secreted in the seed, and the new beginnings harold hope as each new life is so unique, so full of color, and song, and a journey.
Creation is meant to nurture each other ~ a beautiful dance altogether ~ with the Creator fathering His masterpiece with the most perfect love ever imagined. Each detail ~ the perfection of a fern, the mighty eons old tree, a wide eyed fawn ~ all of it brought about by Him.
And we, the very soul of his Creation ~ the manifestations of his breath, often stumble unseeing through our moments, overwhelmed by the everything we have chosen to take on. The fractures we experience and the divides we feel, brought about by choices and actions and an unseen evil of a different realm. All that has been placed before us here ~ a banquet for our deepest selves ~ ignored in rush and chaos and life itself. Creation is a calling to love and be loved, to be connected and nurtured in the most fulfilling form.
If Nature were to sing in harmony, which really it does, but we of untrained ears and eyes rarely hear or see this song, its' chorus would be: healing for your wounding and peace for your pain ~ blades of grass swaying in unison in a field all jeweled in dew, ocean waves pounding in perfect rhythm on the shores, frogs chorusing on Summer evenings, delicate perfumed flowers always reaching towards the light ~ all singing this song for you. The simplicity and yet complexity can never be fully understood ~ only felt ~ and only felt when we are open because it has been created FOR us to bless us. We cannot partake fully without intention and the opening of the eyes of our soul.
For us ~ with spirits in us and souls shining through ~ we are asked, invited, called, to drink in this richness we have been gifted. Its innocent all givingness, is the perfect picture of the love the Father has for us. We go forward on our journey drawing ever closer to what we are really living for, and practicing for, hoping for ~ eternity ~ and more healing, love and beauty then we have ever imagined. Creation reminds us to hold that close, to give our love and beauty like the gift it is, in worship and surrender ~ growing and living through the seasons always going towards the light.'
xo
Tansy
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