Nature as Teacher

Nature is a wonderful teacher of the mindful contemplative life. 

The bad weather allows us to rejoice even more in the good and without the storms we would never see the rainbow... 

This beautiful rainbow lasted for 5 minutes and then faded away... it will never come again in this exact way and this gives me two choices... To be sad that it's gone and to cling to the experience or to rejoice I saw it at all and to let it go... if I choose the latter then I simply honour it as gift, I become open to the lesson it teaches and to the next experience.

Whatever you are going through today remember you are going THROUGH it... No experience or emotional state is everlasting in this life...

Joys and Sorrows arise and then depart until they come again... 

You are not your feelings and you are not defined by them unless you cling to them.

Breath by breath... 

Moment by moment...

we learn that in fact we are travelling through this experience towards becoming our real self revealed in the light of Love as Being and not simply just as feeling...

For life is a journey into the mystery of Divine Love... 

Into the mystery of God who IS love...