May you remember

Picture this. 

It’s early morning and you are paddling a canoe across the mirror like surface of a lake. You are the only one around and even the birds in the tree lined banks are subdued at this early hour. The sun is only just beginning to rise above the hillside on the distant horizon, you can just feel it’s warmth starting to ease the early morning chill on your skin. You pause your paddling, and you drift slowly to a stop in the middle of the lake.  

You are still. 

All you can hear is your quietening breath. You are alone in these heartbreakingly beautiful surroundings. There is nothing to do but to breathe and be in this moment. To listen. 

To take a pause.  

Do you hear it? Do you hear the beauty pushing at you? Trying to seep into your body. Into your heart. Into your mind. Listen to that undeniable truth knocking at your door. Do you remember what you have forgotten? Have you forgotten the lesson? To welcome the beauty in when it comes knocking.  

The beauty is always there. You know that, you’d just forgotten. Always there, in every moment, in everything. In you. 

It’s very easy to get lost in our minds throughout our day. We give all our time and effort to our fears. To grow our worries, nurse our pains, and stoke the fire of our distrust. It is very easy to get lost in the illusion of our worlds. We keep moving and forget to answer the door. 

It takes courage to consciously take this pause, and welcome in the beauty. To allow it to hold us. To allow it back into our aching hearts, into our exhausted bodies. To let the joy wash in and over us. To move like wind clearing our cluttered minds and washing our eyes clear. To exist for a moment with and within this undeniable truth. 

Everything is ecstasy inside. We don’t know it because of our thinking minds.  

You are part of this. And this is part of you. 

May you remember this way in. 

It is always knocking, we just forget to let it in. 

—
Andrew.