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Welcome here!
Last week we gave the invitation to embrace the waves as they approach with Waves of Acceptance - Welcoming the Waves in Life.
Check it out here if you missed it.
And now to today… let’s seek peace, even amidst storms. Let’s invite calm and strength, even if we feel unsettled and weak. Let’s embrace the cost of loving, which is so closely entwined with the joy of loving. Let us feel, even when the feeling may be sorrow, or uncertainty.
An Invitation
My invitation to you is to consciously choose to be present. Right here. Right now. Allowing the being here. Allowing your “being” here.
Create space for you, for your being, for your inter-being.
You are worthy of space. You are worthy of time. It is here, for you. Ready. Now.
It is yours to take up like water to a parched mouth.
Will you take it?
Will you allow the bending low to scoop your hands like an ancient, life-carrying vessel, into the fresh life-giving water pooled before you?
Will you bend or do you choose to remain ram-rod straight and unyielding for fear of breaking if you soften to bend?
It’s not a judgement, merely a wondering.
What will you allow today?
You are the one who allows, if you choose to be.
You are the one who declines, if you choose to be.
The choice is there for you to see and take in your hands and turn over and under, around, and back again to its starting point.
Feel the substance of choice in your own hands. Feel it there. Is it soft and tender, or hard and jagged? Is it a combination of both, or consistent in its texture and form?
Feel again the substance of your power to choose.
Feel it there. In your own hands.
Is it a comfortable presence or a demanding, demoralising spectre?
Does the form and weight and texture change as you handle it?
As you notice your power to choose, what happens to the choosing?
Let’s bring our focus again to the water pooled before us.
Opportunities in life.
It is there.
Ready.
Ready for our choosing. Do you allow the softening?
Do you allow the softening of your own form, yielding, gently, lovingly?
Do you extend your cupped hands into the water, scooping up what you need, allowing to fall what your hands cannot contain?
Rising again, bringing your hands to your face, to drink and perhaps also refresh.
Do you allow the yielding that leads to refreshing?
Do you allow the bending that leads to the rising?
Allow, if you choose. And in the allowing refresh your being. Refresh you.
Allow your choosing. Allow your softening. Allow your yielding. Allow your rising.
And wonderfully, allow your refreshing.
Life is here. Life is now.
Life is in the very present here and now.
It is yours. In its beauty and joys. In its weights and sorrows. Life is yours.
Welcome here.
Welcome to living your life.
Consciously.
Lovingly.
Gently.
Be kind to you.
Be kind.
Have a wonderful day.
Lovingly,
Melanie Williams de Amaya
Driftwood and Grace