Nature's
Cycles
“Nature
is a mighty teacher. By observing her cycles we come to understand
how life dances within us.”
Science
of Mind, page 51, March, 2016
Spring
has sprung here in the deep south. The red-buds are in full array,
along with jonquils and forsythia. The Bradford pears are clouds of
white, smelly blooms. Seemingly overnight, leaves have sprung out of
the oak and hickory trees in my yard. There is nothing gradual about
our seasons here—they just come in a flash, and we say, “Well...I
guess winter's over.” Tomorrow may be summer.
Nature,
its changeability, its ebb and flow, it's wax and wane, its rise and
fall, gives us a huge clue about the nature of life itself. Our life.
We have periods of fullness and emptiness, we are pumped up at times
and wilted at others. We are on top at one moment, then topple to the
bottom the next. We are part of the earth, and we share her cycles.
The difference is that we label some as good and some as bad. I've
never heard an oak tree lament that winter is simply too long and too cold. Or
the ocean say, “Oi, not this again! Always with the ebb and the
flow!” Only humans expect fullness forever.
Should
we adjust to the cycles, even enjoy them, we would have less angst,
less anxiety and pain. We are a universe unto ourselves. We orbit
through all the seasons of life, the spring and the winter, the joy
and the sorrow. That's the nature of human experience. Each stage is
an adventure if we allow it to be.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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