ALLOWING IT IN

It was early in the morning, and I was sitting on my sofa, shades rolled slightly up on the window, cup of coffee in hand. Softly inhaling the freshly brewed aroma, I gazed out the window at the row of trees on the horizon and found myself thinking about the concept:

I’m looking for a quiet day today.

Then the following crept into my mind, what if the quiet day was looking for me?

Pondering this I asked myself, what if I allowed the quiet day to find me?

What would that be like? Feel like?

I settled back and took a breath . . . and allowed myself to feel into that thought. I consciously connected the essence of the thought with the feeling. In that moment, I felt my abdomen expand effortlessly with the breath. I breathed deeply . . . again . . . and again . . . and again. I turned towards the window, looked out at the trees, breathed . . . and smiled. 

The breath . . . in the moment of breathing, the day finds me. Each moment is a now point of creation. I breathe, I am here, I know, I breathe once more. This moment of breath is a holy moment. If we understand that there is just One God / Goddess, All There Is, then the Divine is in the breath, and as I breathe, I am breathing the Divine, and the Divine is breathing me.

In the beginning, the Creator, by whatever name we call It . . . God / Goddess, All There Is . . . this All There Is was all that was, is, and ever will be. So, what do you think we and the world were made from? The Divine is Omnipresent . . . in everything we see . . . in everything we eat . . . in every breath we take.

I settle back into the breath . . . and breathe. I look out my window and see faces of the Divine radiating as trees, as birds, as flowers, as houses, as my neighbors, as the world. I look out the window. I lean back. I smile. I breathe.

The day awaits, and I wait with it. Together we sing the Morning Song . . . together we wait in the silence. It knew where I was all along. I just had to let It in. 

Something to Ponder:

• Can you allow yourself to take a few moments each day to just sit back, look out the window, and breathe?

• Can you allow yourself to take a few moments each day to just sit back, look out the window, and smile?

Something to Practice:

Try taking a few moments each day and just sit back, look out the window, and breathe. Start noticing what is outside. Send smiles to those outside your window. Send smiles to nature. If you can, take a walk outside into nature, even if for a few moments: look up at the sky; look at the grass, the trees. Breathe . . . breathe . . . breathe.

Dr Melissa is an ordained Religious Science and Interfaith Minister and member of the Affiliated New Thought Network. Melissa is Emerson Institutes director of education services teaching and developing curricula for Emerson Institute

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