The Experience of Something New

"Cling not in desperation for things that can merely be held by hands. As the seasons come and go, so let it flow. In this way, you will always find yourself enhanced with the experience of something new." - Lady Prism

How very often have I quoted the phrase, "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear."  Now it plainly speaks  that all my life, all these 42 years of existence, have been just that - a preparation for the coming of  the teacher, my teacher. To think that I myself delve in the arena of 'teaching" but have only now realized a great truth about learning. 


O, how long it took before I finally came to this understanding! But how grateful I am that life in divine kindness has allowed me a safe path to finally reach this bridge. It is as if I had been walking walking walking all my days to finally face this new path I now am' allowed to cross. 

I feel light and free, unburdened. 
I feel strong and hopeful. 
I feel calm as the sea on a summer afternoon, and brave as the oak that stands tall and silent by its own. 


I feel secure and serenely knowing. 
And most of all, I feel that life itself is an anchor I can trust. Never have I been drifting after, all, even if at times I painfully thought myself so. Everything around me is alive with meaning. No longer do I feel the need to hold onto things that no longer serve this journey of my life.

My purpose is growing. And each day I am being taught exactly how to live it: to take and understand, to give and let go and accept.  From hereon starts a different path- different from yours and theirs. This is the first learning. I thread it in paradox of being alone alone yet with company. 


I welcome the ways revealed.