Sunday Thought 08/09/24
mantra of the week: everything is a phase
My weekly telegrams have been on pause yet Sundays have not been without musing and reflecting. There is something warming and familiar about sitting down to write. Also, something intimidating about a blank page. More so, a blank page is a sea of possibility. And I long to rest in possibility. I’ll choose possibility every time over pre-determined inflexible predictability. Choosing possibility means choosing to be at sea, to float and dive and move with the tides, to enter and dance with ‘not knowing’.
And so we arrive at this week’s theme…
What a comfort to recognise that everything is simply a phase. Nothing is fixed and before long, we’ll be in the next phase. And yet. Bittersweet too. For as we cycle through phases, we realise we cannot freeze the frame and hold on to one delicious and delightful turn of the wheel, just as we are not stuck in the most challenging places.
From one day to the next, a phase of fury and frustration then a softer tone of rest and acceptance. So often, the invitation is to remember what we already feel to be true — that seasons and cycles, tides and phases are part of the fabric of life, we are always ending and beginning. A comfort to know that this too shall pass and a yearning to pause and savour, existing side by side. May we have the strength and grace to move through each phase and the awareness to treasure each phase for the gifts and lessons it reveals.
Love,
Lou
For you to reflect on and perhaps write in your journal:
How would you describe this current phase you are in? Be it the recent days / weeks or a seismic life shift?
Are there any inner (or outer) resources you can call upon to support you in the phase and in moving through the next?
Quote of the week:
You have to flow with the river. There is no other way. You can swim against it, and pretend not to be flowing with it. But you still flow with the river
― Alan Watts
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