The Great Shake Up - The Bigger Picture
It seems that I and everyone I know are in the midst of dramatic
transitions. The kind of challenging stuff that shakes you to the very
bone and then dares you to look in the mirror and identify the person
looking back. It's as if the universe is shaking each of us,
individually and collectively, like trees in a storm, measuring the
strength of our roots and branches against the railing winds. And,
indeed, for Mother Earth herself this is a time of dramatic change,
challenge, and redefinition.
Much of what's going down just seems like a major bummer, plain and
simple. And it is so very difficult, when in the midst of personal
turmoil, to step outside of oneself to see The Bigger Picture. But
ultimately, the easiest way through crisis is to face it full on,
opening ever to lessons looming so large they often seem elusive.
Everything that happens to us on the physical plane is simply one
expression, one manifestation of a spiritual event that is playing out
on multi-dimensional levels. To look beyond our emotional responses
allows us a glimpse of the bigger picture, and the lessons that are
being learned on octaves higher than the voice of ego.
Change provides the opportunity to expand who we are. Change fosters
growth and the two are inextricably intertwined in a symbiotic dance.
Change is the thread in the fabric of the now, the only moment we can
experience. When we resist change we are living in reaction to an
intangible, unchangeable past. But when we release the need to control
change and when we embrace uncertainty with trust in the Bigger Picture,
then we allow a space for redefinition which affords possibility and
potential. This space is called hope.
The coming year only promises more great shaking up. Hold on to your
beautiful, multi-dimensional asses. Let us all commit, as best we can,
to opening ourselves to our larger lessons on many levels so that we may
better learn to trust the wisdom of our hearts, the necessity of our
sometimes uncomfortable growth and the beauty of our jagged journeys.
There is always hope. There is always a Bigger Picture.
Peace & Light,
Anne Harris |
