Live Wide Open

Are you watching, observing, seeing or even trying to notice the small signs that govern your world, our world, this earth-dance between the sunshine and the rain, the wide open plains, the hills, valleys, the leaves on the trees?

The seasons govern you. Nature is you. Though most look at nature as something outside of themselves.  But it is you. For you are the clouds, the skies, the blue and full moons waning, the fog settled over the mountain peaks at 12,000 feet in some cloud city.

Are you aware of the bees, their patterns, the way they show up early on the flowers near your porch and begin to thin out, fade away as the summer nears end, as the aphids begin to crawl away, and the birds in the sky begin to flock and gather in the trees reminding us all that something magical is governing this orchestration of wonder and play, this dance of nature.  While most think they are governed and ruled and influenced by TV and cell phones and cars and traffic.

How long have you isolated yourself from the truth that is happening all around you whether in Colorado or London or the on edges of the Amazon?

There is a continuance, a magnificent to planet earth.  Are you even noticing or are you rushing around paying bills, swilling beer, lost in cement buildings in cities that air condition out the seasons and cool your heating up and distant mind and heart?

Notice the magnificence today, right now. Remind, rewind, be kind and see the subtleties and undulations, the unmatched beauty that abounds, the slow pace, the perfect pace, of nature, the seasons, the connection you have to earth, the universe, the universal laws of this life that fits you into the heavens, not outside it, not in cars listening to sports on the radio, not in buildings that play elevator music and torture you with separation from that which is the higher source to all life, your life, my life, and the lives of our tender children.

You are the mountains and the streams, the mysteries unfolding, the soft rains, the warm sunshine and the movement of nature that is more glorious than sitcoms, news, video games or texting your BFF.

Come out and play and see this absolute perfection today.  Do not hinder your consciousness with too many distractions. Rather, steep in your gratefulness and appreciation of this gift given to every creature, every minor player…from the butterflies that last and live an entire three weeks, to the humans over 90 and the tortoises over 139. 

Come back to the Mother who takes care of all things in the dance of seasons exploding with ultimate beauty everywhere, every-when—in every nook and cranny on Earth Theatre One playing just down the street from you.