What if the bad situations or circumstances in our lives didn’t hurt us so? What if we didn’t drown in them? What could that look like? What if the things that we couldn’t understand right now are truly an invitation and peek into our better selves in the future?
What if the eagle and the tree had it right all along…
The eagle: who uses the storm to take it to new heights. The same one that realizes that the highest point, the sun, is where it finds its healing.
The tree: the one that can grow in even the roughest of terrains. The one who doesn’t fight the storm overall. The tree who allows its branches to be moved by the enormous power of the winds, trusting that its core will be OK throughout it all. The same tree who bears plentiful fruit and whose seeds eventually learn to do the same – creating vast and beautiful forests in the process.
Or how about the souls who see the storm as the perfect platforms to dance within. The ones who invite and teach us the sweetest of moves and during the most crucial of times.
What if these lessons are the point of it all – that dreaded storm…embracing the “grey areas” in our lives? Recognizing, accepting, surrendering and hoping regardless.
I’m learning that the middle ground might not be as clean or simple as I had once thought. I’m also starting to understand that embracing these messy parts might be the point. Letting life be…life. It doesn’t mean we stop trying to get better. It means that we try to learn to let go a little even if we can’t understand why.
One has to trust that letting go sometimes raises the bar…
Sure, try. ALWAYS, try. The art of trying is a beautiful thing. But trying sometimes involves the thing that we’re holding ourselves back from – the one thing we’ve never really tried: Letting go and trusting.
“Let me fall if I must. The one I will become will catch me.” – Baal Shem Tov
cuz..
“An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.” – unknown
Allowing oneself the permission to live within the grey just might make for a better understanding in this gift of life…and these wonderful teachers might have been right in front of our faces the whole time. We should probably do our best to not forget these. They just might be that crucial part that’s missing.
(Go ahead, have the courage to admit you missed it…and enjoy where that truth takes you.)
