This Light is Real

This sunrise had my full attention on my morning walk. It's amazing I can start as the sun rises and by the end of my walk, daylight is in full force. I saw a couple out on the flats stop and watched a heron fly by. They resumed their activities and laughter echoed across the bay.

A loud gaggle of Canadian geese flew above the tree line on their way to the pond. Their honking sounded purposeful and happy, like they were greeting old friends they hadn't seen in a while. It took me back to my childhood in rural Saskatchewan and made my heart sing. So many changes have taken place over the past 17 years since I began the excavation work to find all the pieces of me I'd hidden. Actually, my first lucid dream was 31 years ago and one that would foreshadow my path for the rest of my life.

On this day, as I walked, I cast my mind back to how I'd discovered the most important step of my life. It was as real as the sunrise and became the foundation for inside growth, unlocking incredible changes. That step was reconnecting with my soul. I deliberately hid every part of myself from everyone, even myself, and didn't realize connecting to my soul was necessary to my path and purpose.

Everybody has a soul. If you're breathing, you have one, but when was the last time you paid attention to it, the last time you listened to it, and the last time you responded to its direction? Living a soul-led life supports us as we choose how we act and how we talk about ourselves and others. We trust our souls to give us wise counsel. It sustains our faith that when we ask it questions; we get the answers we need, not what we expect. It teaches us to be aware of our thoughts, attitudes, or judgments, and opens our minds to look at them with awareness for healing, understanding, and changing. At no one time is the process complete; we are a moment by moment work in progress. At the same time, with every breath we take, we are always enough and a part of the ebb and flow in the cosmic web of human life.

Light punctuates our seasons. I spoke with a person today who said the season, as it changes, is what he likes best. Our days and nights grow longer and shorter, and the temperature gets colder and hotter. With the changing seasons, we submit to what each season brings. So it is with the light. We choose to reconnect with our souls and, in choosing, we submit our mind's dominance to be enlightened by our soul. No longer can our mind claim she is the queen and our lives be subject to the rule of our minds alone.

I submitted to my soul's direction and counsel, because my soul knows what wanted to be brought to the world and its inhabitants through me. It was precisely for this reason I felt that urge, that yearning to be my authentic self and bring my mission to others with inspired passion. Our souls are whispering to all of us to remember.

Particles of our light sparkle with every choice we make, every idea we have, every gift of love we share. We are living sparklers setting off eternal flames, reigniting another person’s weakening ability to love or to try again, or to get up and walk another step. There is no such thing as a small spark. Myss, Caroline. Intimate Conversations with the Divine, (Hay House, 2020), p. 5. Kindle.

There are seeds of light in everyone's soul ready to "sparkle with every choice we make". When I walk in nature, I walk intending to see something that resonates with me like this morning's glorious sunrise and the winding stream reflecting it. Just as easily, a leaf might be a radiant colour, a bird is extra shiny, a tree calls to me. Noticing helped me see more intuitively. It helps us see light in other living things and nudges our own light to grow. Meditating, practicing gratitude, mindfulness, spending time in nature, breathing slowly and deeply, eating nourishing food are all ways to nourish and grow the light in your soul. Nourishing one part of us nourishes all other parts, because we're interconnected and form a whole being.

This light in my soul today and every day is as real as my morning walk and the sunlight reflecting its rays on everything it touches. Being a spark of light doesn’t always mean feeling good or always feeling good energy either. We have seeds of light inside us, the light of our soul, and it’s incumbent upon each of us to nurture these seeds of light. As in murky times, glorious innovative and creative times throughout the past and present, we are being summoned to light-up and shine, igniting our spark so we can reignite others always remembering that "there is no such thing as a small spark."