Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott and I'm still in Exeter,
Still on a walk and I'm paused.
I'm just beside the city walls.
These are the walls that started to be built 2,
000 years ago in Roman occupied Britain and they've been built on ever since and the walls used to encircle Exeter but now there are just fragments of these walls left.
And I'm on a footpath that comes alongside part of the wall and that will then link me into the cathedral yard.
Well there's a very beautiful cathedral which is probably about 800 years old,
Something like that,
I mean it's old.
And I'm pausing because on the ground around me it's covered in pink and as I look up I can see the boughs of a cherry blossom tree beautiful pink flowers hanging off this tree and there's a squirrel that's running along the branch and as it runs there's a shower of blossoms that are falling down as it following the squirrel as it runs along the branch because these cherry blossoms are right at the end now and they're falling and the petals are falling all around me it's almost like snow it's like being amongst a snow flurry but very beautiful pink pink flowers pink petals everywhere.
And as I reflect on the tree and the blossom you know something comes to mind which again feels really important for me as a reminder.
My learning journey is one that I keep having lessons repeated for me to learn and each time I hear a lesson or find a lesson it's as though a layer is being peeled off a layer is being peeled off and I'm seeing something more clearly about that particular area and I say this because there's a sense sometimes that we go through life and we learn life's lesson and that's it it's like we get a tick and we go on to the next level but the way that I see it is that we see lessons that we individually need to learn and each time we take off we peel off a layer of that lesson and we start to see something fresh and new and then we come back and learn the lesson again but with each time we've got a different starting point.
So the lesson that the blossom is reminding me of is this time of letting go.
There is a time when it is right to bloom there is a time when it is right for the petals to come out and to soak up the sun and equally there is a time when that cycle has finished and it's time to let go and even by saying let go I think that's the wrong terminology because it's not as though the blossom has to let go of the tree or the tree has to let go of the blossom it's as though there is a time that comes when it is right for it to no longer be attached and naturally it finds its way to the ground.
Letting go can sometimes feel as though it's about letting go something that I cling want to cling tightly onto and the blossom is showing me something different.
The blossom is showing me that letting go is allowing the natural process of life to take place.
There is a time when it is right for the blossoms to fall.
There is a time when it is right for me in my world in my life when the cycle I see it as a cycle it's almost like the cycle is completed in this part of my life and it is time to move on.
So today is all about letting go allowing things to move on to shift as and when they need to shift so it's so important to realize that there is a time for growth there is a time for blossoming and there is a time for falling and they are all okay that is the nature of life.
