Snow, slush and sanity

For some odd reason I seem to find myself writing about the weather lately. It must be that we have had such weird weather this past few months and it keeps getting stranger.

Yesterday, after not using my car for the past 5 days, I did have to get somewhere that required the use of said car. With all the snow and freezing weather, I had been thinking that it might be a good idea to at least start the car to make sure it would start when I really needed it to. But, of course, I didn't do that so I headed out with lots of time to make sure that I would be able to warm it up in preparation for my journey.

It was covered with snow and I frowned but I had my trusty snow scraper-offer and I was prepared to do my part to get it road worthy. The key went into the lock. It turned. I smiled. I put my hand on the handle and pulled......and pulled.....and pulled. No way was the door going to open. Frozen solid. Argh......

Tried the passenger side. In the key went. It turned. But once again, no way was the door going to open there either. Hmmmm, change of plans. I schlepped everything back into the house and made a few phone calls. As I was finishing up with the advisory to my clients, the snow started to come down again. LOTS OF SNOW. Yikes.

Being a Vancouverite, we are a rare breed when the snows hit. For some odd reason, we are not programmed to drive in it. There is a fear that arises every year when it hits. I do not like to drive in it. I am a good driver but I am terrified of all the other wackos out there who try to drive FAST and with complete inattention to the changes in road conditions. There are always horrid accidents and as the day went on, all that I heard on the radio was more and more advisories about NOT going out if we really didn't need to.

On top of that, there were trees falling everywhere and trapping motorists from one end of the city to the other. The very road that would have taken me to my original destination yesterday was closed for a couple of hours during the afternoon rush hour due to a huge tree that had fallen, closing 2 lanes of traffic.

Had I tried to get anywhere yesterday I would not have made it home in time for another appointment that I had tentatively booked here, in my little sacred space.

I thank the Gods and Goddesses for assuring that I did not get out there. We are always protected and yesterday was no exception.

Let's hear it for the Guardian Angels and the rest of our Spiritual Hierarchy. I feel truly blessed.

Coming into my own

While driving home the other day, it hit me. I felt happy. Nothing of significance had occured to warrant this feeling but still, there it was. I felt happy and that was HUGE.

In the past, there had always been some event or person or something outside of me to engage me in happiness but here, today, I was happy just because. No special reason, just because. There was no need for me to look outside for inside me there is this deep well of peace and contentment rising to the surface. I am full and complete and whole just the way I AM, right now.......I sigh........

I have been doing some pretty deep soul searching these past few months and for the first time in years, I am acknowledging that sometimes I too need to have assistance from others. Not just commiserating with friends or acquaintances but actually setting time and money aside to be with those who are skilled in prompting others to dig deep from a place of safety and compassion. Not unlike what I do with those who seek me out for their own brand of spiritual cleansing. Something has definitely shifted.

This year has been one of deep cleansing for us all and also for the planet. We have all seen the intense cleansing that Mother Earth has been going through and it is obvious, at least to me, that what we are seeing outside ourselves is only a deeper reflection of what is going on within. It is a time of coming into a place of acceptance for all that we are and all that we have been so that we can finally come to terms with where it is that we are heading and who it is that we have become.

The journey of self-discovery is one of a never ending quest. There is no official destination for it is the journey that we seek. The movement from one way of being to another as one continuous cycle of growth and learning is how it presents itself to me. Is it easy? Not particularly. Is it useful? Of course, but we do need to realize that we are being led by our own unique Soul Essence to discover the reasons for our being right here, right now. Are you listening?

We all must allow ourselves to come into a place of acceptance for where we are on our journey so that we can move beyond and into a place that is more in alignment with who we have become. There are many who are happy to sit in a place of complacency and have no desire to move anywhere else. Oh, to be one of those people! However, I have always searched for that place within my Soul where I felt that I was playing role that I was destined to play. The role that would fully display my own art for we are all creator beings and, as such, our life becomes the frame that encompasses the art that we are showing to the world.

Are you showing your finest art in your framework? Is there more that you wish to add to the picture that is your Life? Interesting questions to ponder.

While it is raining outside my window once more, there has been much more sunshine in my life and in my city this year. I wonder at times if perhaps the shift within me has somehow had an affect on how often the sun shines down upon me. A heady thought.

Perhaps there is something to the idea that our thoughts affect our reality. I am choosing to believe this to be true.

So just for this moment, open to the sunshine within your own life and know that you are blessed to the infinite, in every moment. And remember that you are in every moment creating the life you are choosing to live.

Blessings

Dodging Puddles....

I had yet to step outside this morning but I had heard the winds blowing and I could also hear that the rain was pouring HARD. However I had no idea how very powerful the weather outside had become. But I had some errands to run and I thought I would simply bundle myself up, grab the BIG umbrella and venture forth.

I stepped outside and started to laugh. For years I had lived on the island of Kauai and this downpour reminded me of rain in the tropics.....hard, seemingly coming down sideways and pooling everywhere as the gutters filled with the autumn leaves that had yet to drop. But hey, it was only water so I opened the umbrella and started off on my journey.

As I stepped gingerly through the puddles I thought of all the times in the past when I had become upset at the rains somehow hindering my progress when I had had to walk around in it. But this morning I found myself actually enjoying the cleansing that was occurring. For that is what the rains signify to me - a cleansing, a washing away of the old to bring to the surface the new.

I turned the corner at the end of the block and immediately saw someone's umbrella turn completely inside out and blow down the street. The look on the face of the poor Being who was now standing in the middle of the street looking at her umbrella as it careened down the road was at first shocked and then she locked eyes with mine and we both started to laugh. I hurried over to her and covered her with my umbrella and there we stood, two strangers now protected by the rain under our cover of green and joined for that moment as one. I walked with her to the mall where she was going to go and purchase a new "cover" from the rain and continued on my way.

Everywhere I went I smiled. And with the smiles I noticed that while the weather had seemingly taken a turn for the worse, still, there were smiles on the faces of those that I connected with. Could that be it? Simply sending a smile to others during inclement weather could elicit more smiles. Is that what the cleansing signified? An opening to the Joy that can be experienced even in the midst of inclement weather........

I am choosing to belief this to be true. I send you blessings of infinite joy as you dodge the puddles that Life sometimes sends your way.

Namaste.