Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
It's quite cold today as I'm out in January on my walk.
It's one of those cold January days that actually are quite rare where I live.
As you know in the southwest of England I often experience the gales and the winds and the rains that bring in grey clouds and mist.
So it's quite unusual to feel this snap of coldness,
This clarity in the air and as I look up above me I can see blue skies.
The grass has got a covering of frost.
It's like a beautiful white tip to the grasses,
The deep green of the grasses around me,
As though someone has come up and painted white on the tips of the grasses.
And the blue of the sky and the clarity of vision is extraordinary.
It's like someone has cleaned the air.
I can see for miles.
Away in the distance I can see the fields,
A patchwork of hedgerows of differing colours of green and brown and they stretch for miles out towards the sea and I can just see the glint of the sea on the horizon.
Today is a real reminder about what it is like to have that sense of clarity,
That sense of clear vision and I'm about that sense of clarity and clear vision because today like the weather I have that sense of clarity.
I have that sense of groundedness,
Of understanding,
That real sense of purpose within.
It's as though today I can hear my soul song.
I can bring my attention within and hear clearly the music of my soul and know that I am singing my song in the world.
And like this day,
This day that is blue and clear and cold and beautiful in its own way,
I also know that this sense of clarity and purpose that I feel won't stay as strongly felt as it does at the moment because sure enough I will feel the changing weather within my mind and my moods will change and I will feel at some point uncertainty again and mistrust of who I am and what I'm about.
That's just the nature of what it is to be human.
But I also know that that song within my soul,
The song of who I truly am,
Never stops singing and I can turn my awareness back to that even when the weather changes in my mind.
The song never stops.
So although my sense of certainty and clarity might indeed waver or wobble or feel unsettled at some times,
It never ever goes away.
So today let's be reminded,
And I want you to be reminded,
That there are times where you feel a sense of certainty and clarity and okayness and it feels as though the volume of it has been turned up in your life.
But know it's not ever going to stay with you forever at that intensity.
And even if you feel the clouds of uncertainty in your world at the moment,
Turn your attention within because the song of your soul still sings and you will hear the strains of that in your life,
Whatever you are feeling at the moment.
So let's thank nature for sharing her wisdom today and for showing us what it is to be in touch with the song of our soul.
