The last two mornings I've woken up well before Tyler and the girls due to the jet lag from my trip. I have been reminded that the early hours of the morning are perhaps one of my most favorite times of the day. There is a stillness in the air and in the house before the day begins that creates space for me to be with myself, fully.
Sitting in the dark with only the light of some digital device and the street lights, I find myself coming into my body just as the sun comes into the sky. Slowly, but surely, making its way to a state of awakening after a visit to the other side of the world/consciousness.
I can only imagine what this time of day is like for Moms or Dads with young kids. It's the calm before or after the storm when they can just be with themselves. I think of my time with my own nieces and nephews and how the entire house changes once they go to bed.
I wonder if this is like what happens in my own mind and spirit. Although it's not the children, but the thoughts and beliefs inside of me that keep me distracted from being present. And somehow, as I wake up, there is a stillness inside of me that I can find more easily than at other times in the day. A time where I can just be with myself and know that all is well.
I'm reminded of one of my favorite Psalms (46:10), "Be still and know that I Am God." Truly it is when I have found stillness both in my outer as well as inner worlds that I am so very aware of my connection to the Divine. Just finding my breath and feeling my physical body, I become aware of my connectedness to Spirit and All That Is.
How can I experience this more often? This awareness and stillness that create such a deep sense of oneness. In honor of our Native American Ancestors, as Grandfather Sun continues to move in to his place in the sky, may the stillness of Grandmother Moon set deeply into my heart.
Sountrack: Karen Marie Garrett, The Green Hills
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