*Yawns….*
I. Am. So. TIRED.And the day’s not even over yet.Today, ALL day, I, along with everyone else involved in Drama class at our school, scurried around, trying to get everything together before our first performance, which is TONIGHT. By the way, we are performing a charming play called Harvey, which is a comedy about a man who makes friends with a 6-foot-tall invisible rabbit (well, a celtic Pooka in rabbit form), and no one believes him and thinks he’s insane.We’ve had some issues with pulling this together, but all we can really do at this point is grit our teeth and get on with it.Anyways, I am just trying to unwind at this point, as I only have an hour until I have to go back for the performance. It’s been a very, VERY stressful week…and this will continue into next week, as well; I really wish there were less things going on next week because next Thursday is Beltane (which is a Pagan Sabbat, or festival/holiday, to those of you who don’t know). I really have to work hard to make everything in my life go smoothly right now.One thing that really helps me get through each day is DailyOm, which is sent each day to my inbox. I think I’ll share todays bit of wisdom:
Letting Nature Work - Silent Change
We all see things about ourselves, our relationships, and our world that we want to change. Often, this desire leads us to take action toward inner work that we need to do or toward some external goal. Sometimes, without any big announcement or momentous shift, we wake up to find that change has happened, seemingly without us. This can feel like a miracle as we suddenly see that our self-esteem really does seem to be intact, or our partner actually is helping out around the house more. We may even wonder whether all of our hard work had anything to do with it, or if it just happened by way of grace.As humans, sometimes we have relatively short attention spans, and we can easily lose track of time. We may worry about a seedling in a pot with our constant attention and watering for several weeks only to find ourselves enjoying the blooms it offers and wondering when that happened, and how we didn’t notice it. Nature, on the other hand, has infinite patience and stays with a thing all the way through its life. This doesn’t mean that our efforts play no part in the miracle of change—they do. It’s just that they are one small part of the picture that finally results in the flowering of a plant, the shifting of a relationship, the softening of our hearts.The same laws that govern the growth of plants oversee our own internal and external changes. We observe, consider, work, and wonder, tilling the soil of our lives, planting seeds, and tending them. Sometimes the hard part is knowing when to stop and let go, handing it over to the universe. Usually this happens by way of distraction or disruption, our attention being called away to other more pressing concerns. And it is often at these times, when we are not looking, in the silence of nature’s embrace, that the miracle of change happens.
Blessed Be!
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Well, here goes. I don’t have much to say for this first post, except that I’m excited. This blog may or may not have many posts, because at the moment I am grounded from the computer…for my grades…..math is stupid anyways….. but I look forward to sharing a bit of myself with the world!