I Love the Moon and Stars [I Love the Moon]
Each morning when I get up I go outside to greet the daylight. The squirrels are running around, the bunnies are watching for the dog on the ready to retreat when she comes out. Sometimes dew from the previous evening is glistening, and the grass seems to stand up under the rays of the sun. Other days it's beams of light where the sun is trying to break through the fog. When it is raining I can't see the sun but I know it's there for it's light and not dark. In the afternoons I walk and the sun kisses my face. At dusk the sun goes down and I lament the sun leaving.
It's dark now and I need air, all is still now doesn't appear that anything is around. Yet I know that the nocturnal animals are now out. They are using darkness as their cover. I can't see them as they sense me but they are there. I look up sometimes the moon is full other times it appears to be gone. It is not really gone just as the sun hides so does the moon. The starts shiny and bright like gold nuggets in the sky putting on a different show when ever I look up. I couldn't see them in the light only now that it is dark can I find them. Why did I lament, how foolish of me. I didn't wait to see the stunning show the night time put on for me. I can feel it, I need them both, yin and yang, I wouldn't appreciate one with out the other.
I ponder all this the beauty and the meanings. I wonder my challenges that seem so overwhelming causing a dreadful darkness within me. Is it possible that I need that too? The universe is showing me the way through the beauty of nature. It's also telling me that I am not really alone either. Just as I can't see the nocturnal animals they are still there. It is in this darkness that I grow. Just as the sun must go down or the grass would wither and no longer be able to reach up towards the sky. I wont feel the full affects until the light comes back. Surely just as dawn breaks every morning the light will come back to me as well.
I do need this darkness as unpleasant as it may seem. We all do, for I have seen those that refuse it. Without it they will not grow. They become as a puddle, stagnant, building bacteria, until finally shriveling up. Never really know true joy but simply avoidance of pain.
"If we are willing to suppress our self-centered nature so that our higher spiritual nature can gain control, it will bring about a resurrection and ascension of the transformed self, which can create heaven on Earth." (Dr. George Ritchie)
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It's dark now and I need air, all is still now doesn't appear that anything is around. Yet I know that the nocturnal animals are now out. They are using darkness as their cover. I can't see them as they sense me but they are there. I look up sometimes the moon is full other times it appears to be gone. It is not really gone just as the sun hides so does the moon. The starts shiny and bright like gold nuggets in the sky putting on a different show when ever I look up. I couldn't see them in the light only now that it is dark can I find them. Why did I lament, how foolish of me. I didn't wait to see the stunning show the night time put on for me. I can feel it, I need them both, yin and yang, I wouldn't appreciate one with out the other.
I ponder all this the beauty and the meanings. I wonder my challenges that seem so overwhelming causing a dreadful darkness within me. Is it possible that I need that too? The universe is showing me the way through the beauty of nature. It's also telling me that I am not really alone either. Just as I can't see the nocturnal animals they are still there. It is in this darkness that I grow. Just as the sun must go down or the grass would wither and no longer be able to reach up towards the sky. I wont feel the full affects until the light comes back. Surely just as dawn breaks every morning the light will come back to me as well.
I do need this darkness as unpleasant as it may seem. We all do, for I have seen those that refuse it. Without it they will not grow. They become as a puddle, stagnant, building bacteria, until finally shriveling up. Never really know true joy but simply avoidance of pain.
"If we are willing to suppress our self-centered nature so that our higher spiritual nature can gain control, it will bring about a resurrection and ascension of the transformed self, which can create heaven on Earth." (Dr. George Ritchie)
