So much change careens through our lives these days. The changes enforced by life’s twists and turns, the choices of others that create ripples, tipping us ever so slightly off course; there is no end to it, so it seems. We gravitate toward the change we choose, and yet push against or shrink back from the change we cannot control. I want this. I don’t want that.
Reflecting on the last several weeks, I have had a number of ups and downs, nothing unusual there. But what I’m sitting with tonight are the memories of the most remarkable women who have touched my life during this same period. I’m having one of those, how did I miss this? moments. Weaving these stories together I discover a fabric of connection and alignment. Powerful are the gifts of heartfelt conversation where shared passions of possibilities manifesting into reality and the sheer will of each to begin again, to move forward, bolsters the other. These were not dreamy what if conversations, but the words and ideas of women collaborating, effecting positive change.
From each, I count 6 now as I recall, came a sharing of humor, loving-kindness and support. We can find comfort in the moments that bring aha’s to thinking and elevate moods, a lightness of being.
Alignment. Finding rhythm and connection, as you open to the heart of anther, listening deeply. Present, without pushing or pulling. No wanting, no not wanting.
Try it, it softens, soothes and uplifts.
