Ep 264 - Another Lesson from the Leaf: Help Is on the Way

Hello, fellow lovers of all things green.

Life has a way of testing the very things we've grown to learn and believe.

This week brought another hurdle in the chapter of my life that I thought was finding its way towards a peaceful ending.

Instead, it took another troubling turn.

It derailed me, frankly, in terms of the excessive time to prepare the information I had to give my attorney and the emotional aspects of it that I struggle with, which contradicts some of the wisdom I've shared with you, doesn't it? I struggled rather than letting go and allowing, going with the flow while doing my part, of course, in gathering information.

I won't go into the details because they aren't really important.

What is important is that, even when we know better, when we trust the perfect unfolding of life, our hearts still hurt.

We feel sadness or disappointment.

Sometimes we even wonder how someone we've shared life with well over a decade can seem like a stranger.

Perhaps you've experienced something like that too.

One thing I've learned is that our emotions aren't the problem.

They're part of being human.

The trouble begins when we think we shouldn't have them, or when we resist what is happening, or become exhausted trying to fix or change something beyond our control.

When that happens, I do what many of you do, probably.

I call a dear friend, or wander into the garden, perhaps tending to a few weeds.

Weeding the undesirables, I like to say.

And it helps.

And then I walk amongst the trees and restore my soul, remembering that Mother Nature has been practicing acceptance far longer than we have.

Earlier this week, I listened to Panash Desai during one of his morning meditations called Call to Calm.

An image he shared brought a smile.

A single leaf floating wherever the wind carried it.

It wasn't struggling.

It wasn't trying to direct its own path.

It surrendered to something larger than itself.

Just like a leaf in the water.