Welcome to this short meditation to pause wherever you are in your day and re-center on yourself,
The earth and the divine love that holds you and all of that.
As we begin,
Find a position that feels comfortable but attentive.
If you're able to,
Just gently close your eyes.
It might help to take a few deep breaths.
Imagine that breath of life filling your lungs right down into your stomach and your back.
And that oxygen being carried to every cell of your body.
And then the breath out,
The release.
And when you're ready,
I invite you to imagine yourself coming to the coast,
To the shore.
Perhaps it is somewhere already familiar to you or perhaps it is a new space.
Take a moment to stand in your imagination and look out at this wild edge,
This sacred threshold between land and water.
What does the sea look like before you?
What colour is it?
Is it wild or calm?
And what can you hear?
What can you smell?
Take a moment to really imagine yourself there in all your senses.
And so I invite you in your imagination to walk down towards that place where the water meets the land,
Where the waves come either rolling or crashing onto the beach.
Imagine that your feet are bare.
You can feel the ground under your toes as you walk.
And I invite you to imagine stepping into the water,
That sacred edge.
This is a place of in between,
A liminal space to acknowledge everything that is and is not.
Everything that you are grateful for and everything that you hope for.
Everything that you wish wasn't.
All the ways in which you hope for healing.
And so as you stand in this water,
As the waves wash over your feet,
That coming and going,
I wonder what it is that you would like to release into the waves.
What do you need to let go of now and allow the water to take from you,
To carry for you?
As you stand here in your imagination,
I invite you to look up and notice the moon.
Is it day or night?
And what phase of the moon is the moon in?
Is it big and heavy and whole in the sky or is it just a slither of a crescent?
The moon and the sea are intimately connected.
They dance together.
In what way are you connected to that rhythm of life?
In the tide,
In and out.
The monthly cycle of the moon.
In what phase are you in?
The moon also looks down on all of us,
Sees every part of creation and every person.
I wonder what it would feel like to allow yourself to be seen in this moment,
To be fully seen as you are.
And in the same way as the moon receives her light from the sun,
What do you need to receive today?
Where do you need light to shine on you or something in your life?
I want to invite you to receive that light that you most need now.
Imagine it shining upon you and then shining within you,
Going to the place of your need and your darkness and bringing light.
And in this moment as we end,
Take one last look out at the water,
At this wild edge.
Is there something you want to take with you into the rest of your day as you go?
It might be a feeling,
A word,
An object.
What will you carry with you from this place?
And then gently and slowly invite you to leave the coast,
That wild edge,
And return to the space you are in now.
Take a deep breath.
Maybe stretch your arms and your legs and wiggle your fingers and your toes.
And maybe just to finish,
Place a hand over your heart and whisper thank you.
Amen.
