As you awaken to a new day,
The winter hangs over you.
Long,
Cold,
With many layers to keep you warm and safe from the harshness of the dark days that winter brings.
And as difficult as these days sometimes are,
You know that it is time for you to leave the warmth of your home and step out into the world outside.
And so with your many layers,
Heavy and weighting you down,
You take a deep breath and you tell yourself,
I can do this.
So layer after layer,
In order to keep you warm and protected,
Has been placed around you.
And you step out onto the frozen ground in the darkness of a winter morning.
You breathe in as you try to release just one more breath.
And as you take your next step and the one after that,
You can see just a tiny ray of light in the sky.
And the next step and the next creates more of the light and less of the darkness.
You take another deep breath and you remove the very top layer.
And you continue to walk forward instead of looking back.
You tell yourself this is a new day and I am walking into it with hope.
And again you feel a need to remove the top layer that you have been covering yourself in.
And once again you move forward and you look up into a sky that is no longer dark and foreboding.
But filled with light and beauty and warmth.
And you feel this sense of wonder and awe and the heaviness that you have surrounded yourself in.
And the air begins to fall away.
And as you look around you once again,
You have only a light layer of clothing.
And the sun is shining on your face and the gentle breeze is wrapping its arms around you.
And the blue sky is making promises that everything in your life is so good,
So precious.
You can feel your heart as it expands.
And as it feels,
So much love,
So much hope and promise that all that you do and all that you are is so good and so loving.
And you open up your arms to the sun and the sky and you feel a tear as it flows down your cheek.
Like warm rain on your face.
And you release and let go of all the tears that have been holding you back.
And all the fears that were only in your mind,
Layer after layer being lifted from you.
And surrounding you and shrouding you is now the light.
You can feel it in every part of your being.
It is your essence.
It is so real.
The beauty and the love and the hopes and the promises that you are so much more than even this moment in time.
That you have only just begun to really touch the deeper essence of you.
The realness of you.
All of the beauty and the fortune that has been paved just for you.
Just for your own good.
So that you can know who you are.
In this world that seems of such great magnitude with you.
Only as the one that tries to walk in it in your own shoes.
In your own memories.
In your own dreams and hopes.
For the life you are now creating.
You can feel the light in every cell of your body.
Every tissue,
Every fiber.
You can feel the energy of that light and that love.
And know that this is who you truly,
Truly are.
And you remember.
You remember.
So long ago this feeling,
This knowing,
This magnificence of your very first breath and even before you breathe.
Just that act alone is the miracle of you.
And you have only just begun.
There is so much more for you to know and for you to discover and for you to grow into.
You can feel your heart.
You can feel it expanding and reaching out and touching not just you,
Not just those you love.
But everything and everyone all across your path are there just for you.
To know and to grow and to expand.
And to take this light out into the world at the same time that you live it and breathe it from within you.
Because that is all there is.
Thank you.
