Innate Blessings
This morning is joyous. I have been running for a whole week and now have a day to relax and recoup. I feel wonderful. It feels good to be productive and busy and not get worn to the bone. I am not sure where this resilience has come from; again it is my therapy, weekly day with myself on Orcas Island, along with Yoga and perhaps solid and good connection with friends. I truly am amazed at my strength and stamina in this moment.
The rain is falling this spring morning, the ground wet and reflective of the soothing happiness and relaxation this day will bring. Steve is cooking on the stove for the dogs, pork and potatoes. The coffee is made and ambient and hypnotic music is playing; a CD that my father brought me back from India.
This evening I will visit my mother for a home cooked meal of halibut and Asian vegetables and discuss our plans for our move to Anacortes. I love this place, and yet am embracing a new life awaiting me with the utmost vigor and anticipation. I will join a yoga studio, visit the Library, and hopefully commute to Lopez for my current job and stay on this lovely Island one evening a week with my father. It will be nice to stay connected to this place, be able to visit the peace and sanctuary and also receive all of the blessings of our new life in Anacortes.
Misting through the air, the moisture descends upon the large lawn in my yard that needs its first trim of springtime, yet. I feel warmly encompassed by the cool showery dim day that rests on the outskirts of my home, sheltered by the loving walls of this household of three years. I do not desire much in this moment. All is well and all encompassing. Wisdom and wellness seem to be breaking through in a way I have never known, and I am so grateful for the companionship of my lover, family, animals and friends, as I love my work, feel fulfilled in my hobbies and am reaching towards goals that I have strategically placed in my life that are achievable. This is a grand accomplishment; to be content with my lot in life, and to set parameters for aims that do not destruct or contradict my nature. Blessings upon these blessings, I am innately indebted.
May wellness continue to spring from my prayers and brings me and carry me continually on a path of contentment. We do not need to strive to exit and exorcise ourselves from what has been ‘granted’ to us by the universe as most of us often strive to do. Amidst our curses are the deepest blessings and once we patiently deconstruct and rebuild ourselves, we are born anew to a path we never thought fathomable. Gratefulness and persistence exudes bliss, and may we rest in this and not struggle with our restrictions, but settle and embrace ourselves in their hugs so we may find the blessings characteristically within.