Devotion to life
What are the things that support life the most? What are the things that sustain it and help it grow? What conditions will help life to come into being?
An environment free of judgement. A place where things can sprout in all directions without having to look in a certain way. A place where nourishment is always available and where there are boundaries that are firm but not frightening. A place where there is care for the other and where coexistence is a dance of giving and taking. A place of interconnection. A place of freedom and of love.
When these conditions are put into place, life will come by itself. Creativity and diversity will naturally flourish. Expressions of life will flow freely and together weave a tapestry of beauty and abundance. This is the power of life.
You might have seen it in your garden. You might have experienced it in your children. You might have felt it inside yourself. How life finds its ways. How it bursts out into colourful unexpected bubbles of joy. How it sparks new ideas that seem crazy but might just work. How it brings together opposites and merges them into new combinations that suddenly have a life of their own.
I’m devoted to life. I’m devoted to finding ways to put the conditions conducive to life into place. I’m devoted to bringing nourishment where it is most needed. I’m devoted to removing the rubble that is in the way. I’m devoted to creating new methods which support life rather than trying to control it.
Sometimes life scares me, but I have learned to hold this with gentleness. Sometimes life confuses me, but I have learned to be patient and to trust that it will eventually show me the way. Sometime life is empty for a long time. This I have learned to love as I now know that we need this time to rest and to replenish. Sometimes life comes rushing in without warning as a spring flood. When this happens, I have learned to remind myself to breath and to stay still.
I breath in and I breath out. I listen to the silence. I wait for my next step.