Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott.
It really does feel like an autumnal day today.
I've been looking out of my window wondering when to go for a walk.
The dark grey clouds seem to rush in and deposit very heavy rain and then rush off again and there's a glimpse of blue sky and white cloud and then the next grey cloud rushes in.
Down the lane I'm walking at the moment is very damp and I'm wondering if I'm going to be lucky and stay dry.
With the weather I've seen today though it's probably pretty unlikely.
I think I might get a little bit wet.
And today has been a reflection on what is mine to share in the world and I was having a conversation with a friend we met for a cup of coffee and one of the conversations that we had was around legacy and I was asking her about what she felt she was wanting to share what next in the world and it all came about because she was telling me that she'd had a conversation herself.
She's moving towards the end of her working life and is considering what next and she was having a conversation with someone that was helping to plan that future next step and she said he did such a great job.
He really helped me think about what I want to share in the world and this isn't about sharing in the world in a big way or finding an audience or setting up a business or working hard in community.
What she was talking about is that she got really clear that she wanted to create something as a legacy for her family.
For her she loves writing,
She loves nature and she loves dabbling in art and she realized there was something for her in this area that she wanted to create and would be something that she could leave behind at the end of her life.
Something creative and beautiful for her family and I really love this.
I love this as an idea.
As you know I've been reflecting on what next for me,
Having an inward journey going on a pilgrimage,
Experiencing that space of reflection and creating space in my life and now realizing it's time to re-engage and to look outwards and I too am thinking about what next.
And one of the messages that seems to keep occurring for me is around a message of simplicity and creativity and one of the areas I see so clearly is that I am almost like an instrument that wants to be played.
It feels to me as though my body and my existence here is a uniqueness,
It's the Liz-ness of the form of who I am in this world,
Is an instrument like a flute or a saxophone or a trumpet or a clarinet.
I am an instrument and then the breath of universal energy comes through me and plays me and my job is just to be played,
Is to understand that it's not for me to work out what instrument I should be and to be disappointed if I'm not the instrument that I think I should be.
My job is to feel and be present to the universal energy that plays through me and with my friend we kind of came up with a lovely way of describing it that we each had this creative spark within us,
A creative spark that was looking to come to life and it was unique to each of us and part of what I see in my life it's about tuning into that creative spark,
Tuning into that Liz-ness,
The skills of passion,
The characteristics,
The personality of Liz and have this universal energy which is shared by everybody,
Have it come through me and create what it wants to create in the world.
So it's not me Liz creating anything,
I am being played musically as it were by the breath of life.
So my question is what is your musical instrument?
What is your creative spark inside?
What do you feel is yours to share and to create and to be in the world?
It doesn't have to be big or grand,
It's about you looking within yourself and getting in touch with that creative spark within you.
Do you have any idea of what that is for you?
Certainly that is the question and reflection I am spending time on for myself and I'm really curious to see what arises.
