Fall in the Midwest is an amazing time of rapid change and beauty. Like clock-work, summer’s warm breezes, green decor, and longer days quietly and gently give way to autumn’s cooler temperatures, crisp autumn winds, and expansive landscapes of browns, yellows, reds, and oranges.
Lately, as I experience the waning of summer and arrival of autumn, I find myself alternately admiring and envying nature for its effortless and graceful flow from one season to the next. Nature in its ever fluctuating state doesn’t struggle against change. Instead, it quietly and peacefully allows change to happen, as if there exists a deep and innate trust operating at the center of it all. Endings lead to new beginnings after all!
In this time of expanding consciousness, I believe there is much we can learn about endings and new beginnings through observing and BEING in nature. By following nature’s lead, we can learn to base our reactions and responses to change on the belief that change, as it relates to our human experiences, is an inevitable and natural state. In doing so, we choose to see the opportunities and spiritual grace that change offers. We learn to trust that there is a “reason for every season.”
Wishing you a bountiful and healthful autumn.
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be…because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap. ~ Maryann Radmacher
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