Back To Earth

You don’t have to show up perfect, or rested, or healed. You don’t even have to show up whole, or with the right shoes on. You need only to show up, just as you are. Wounded here, tender there, hopeless in between. You need only to show up, inevitably human, and throw yourself at her feet. For when you drop to your knees, the ground will rise up to meet you, and soften your fall with grasses and sands. You don’t need any magic words, and you hardly need even ask. If you’ll allow her, mother nature will draw you close. As one of her children, she will hold you, comfort you, and help bring you back to earth. She’ll guide you to the deep well of love inside of you, and help you to remember that this is your essential essence.

& If you allow yourself to become quiet enough, you will start to feel the sway of her rhythms. The natural ebb and flow. & If you relax into your breath deeply enough, if you trust it to guide you, you may find yourself becoming in tune with her rhythms as well, lungs breathing deeper than they knew they needed.

& In this quiet place, you might begin to listen differently, to notice more. The bird songs, the leaves rustling overhead, the gentle breeze, the dances of the bees. You might receive something from these creatures: a message, a knowing, a song.

& When you get to the deepest place- the place of pure flow, of breathing and humming with the earth, of knowing that everything is as it should be- there, in that place, you will meet Spirit. & When you meet Spirit, when your heart is bursting full with love and trust, you will laugh, because you will recognize Spirit as a part of yourself. A part that was there all along, always connected to the miracle of being alive, a blessed child of The Universe. You just needed to come back to earth to find it.