Everything You Need is Right Before You

Openness to change does not mean being able to move so much as remaining in the stillness.

It means standing your ground even as the sun arcs across the sky,

even as the hurricane threatens to rip you out of your very foundations.

Seasons change.

It is a matter of course.

Everytime a branch breaks off, the entre tree grows stronger

and next year there is a new layer of growth.

Nature has great faith in the loving, merciful and procreative powers of the universe.

It is the enduring strength of this aith that urges on the Spring each year out of Winter's death sleep.

Listen to the birds rejoice, praising the Lord over and over with their songs of jubilation.

Who can listen and not be affected?

They do not pour out their grief to complain about the harsh trials winter has pu them through,

but joyfully throw to the wind their cares,

forgetting all injustice.

For a model of divine, unconditional love,

you have only to look in your own backyard.