Blessings to you,
Dear soul.
I would like to offer you an invitation.
I invite you to close your eyes and intentionally bring yourself into a place of darkness.
Allow yourself permission to get quiet.
Allow yourself permission to be still.
Allow yourself a moment to adjust your internal gaze and take a look inside.
So very often we shy away from that which is dark.
When we're small children,
We become fearful of what might lurk around the corner or under the bed.
The season of winter sets in and energy becomes low.
The call to rest becomes more inviting yet we resist.
This concept of darkness has been strengthened and fed by the idea and belief of fear.
I found myself in the woods after the sun had gone down just a few weeks back.
Every step that I took was one of trust and instinctual knowing through the night.
The trees on either side of me were beckoning and guiding me as they reminded me that I was not alone.
I continued on as my senses heightened and my eyes began to adjust to the darkness that in fact embraced me.
Any foreboding sense of fear began to dissipate as I noticed I was also being guided by my own internal light.
The path began to narrow and the trees lessened.
Just then I stepped out into an open field,
A beautiful and beckoning bald that overlooked the city below and the mountains beyond.
And it was then that my gaze began to lift towards the velvet night sky.
It was also then that I was overcome with what filled my eyes and penetrated into my entire being.
Because of the darkness,
I was able to see every single star above including the rich glow of the Milky Way.
Because I allowed my external gaze to adjust to the dark,
I was able to drink in every ounce of sparkle and shine above me.
Because I allowed my senses and knowing to be guided by the light that is eternal and within.
I had arrived in this moment and in this ineffable space.
I was then reminded instinctually of the very first place that I ever knew darkness.
Not a tomb of fear,
No,
Not this.
A womb.
Completely surrounded by everything that I needed to survive.
Ultimate reminder of hope.
My beginning.
I would like to offer you an invitation,
Dear one.
I invite you to close your eyes.
What do you see?
That internal light that shines is there even if not accessible in this moment.
It takes time to allow our external gaze to adjust to that which surrounds us so that we may fully see.
I invite you to fearlessly step into the darkness.
I invite you to dance underneath of the star.
I invite you to remember that it's okay to allow yourself to rest in this place of nourishing night.
It is here that we find the strength to begin again.
We find hope.
Rest now,
Dear one.
I see you.
I see you.
I see you.
I can see it in your eyes.
I can see it in the night sky.
I can see it in the gently raised corners of your mouth.
I can see it in the dawn and watch it linger in the dusk.
I can see it in the waves that kiss the shore at night.
I can see it in glimmers.
I can see it in amounts so enormous it brings me to tears.
I can see it in the soul that has the blessing of passing you on the street.
I can see it disappear as doubt sets in.
But I can see it grow even stronger with newfound hope.
I can see it in you as you can see it in me,
Reflecting as we synergistically shine in the middle of the darkest night.
Don't be afraid.
Open your eyes.
Allow.
Adjust.
I can see you.
I can see it in the night sky.
I can see it in the night sky.
