Another gray day! I hear many people YEARNING for the sunshine again. …… and it will feel FABULOUS when it returns. But this is the other side of the coin OR even a part of the “oneness”. We have and need sunshine, we have and need cloudy, rainy days. We would not do well with all of one or the other. We need the balance, the yin and the yang. Right now we are in the “cloudy, rainy” side of the balance.
Our lives are like that. We have sunny, light, joy filled days. We have dark and rainy days. Days when everything feels balanced and easy and joyful. Days when nothing seems to be coming our way OR even if it is WE can’t seem to see or feel it.
How do we ride the waves? If you look at your life, you will probably always find ONE thing that you feel is a bit challenging at any given time. Why is that? Why can’t life just be EASY?? ( That is something I have certainly cried to the heavens at times!!) Sometimes life just feels plain hard and unfair.
This only makes sense to me when I look at my life as a place of learning Soul lessons. When I look BACK on my lifeI know that the greatest growth and learning came to me from the difficult experiences that Life washed up on my shore. From earthly vision I would NEVER want the difficult days that I have experienced. I would have always chosen to just dance in the sunshine. But it is VERY clear to me how much I have grown through the difficulties of my life. I NEEDED the dark, the clouds and the rain to nurture and fortify me. So when the sunshine DID come again, I grew quickly and with much deeper roots and strength than before.
When we are in the dark days, it can feel SO ongoing. It may seem as if the sun will never shine again. But the sunshine DOES come again, and again, and again. It is amazing how we can forget that so easily. In fact, as we know the sun does not go away! It is ALWAYS there, just on the other side of the clouds! But still we forget and we lament about this or that. We seem to love to make misery of our lives!
So what is our lesson in all of this? The deeper truth is there is ALWAYS a silver lining in ANYTHING that occurs. The deeper truth is that there is ALWAYS a solution for every problem that comes along. Sometimes we need a lot of DARKNESS to WAKE US UP! How many oil spills do we need to subject our oceans, our planet to before we WAKE UP? How many times do you need to make an uncomfortable choice before you WAKE UP to a new choice?
We need the dark to find the light.
Choose a difficult time in your past. Write down all of the downsides you experienced with this challenge. Count how many downsides you came up with and NOW you must write down an EQUAL number of benefits that you gained through this challenge. The greater the challenge, the greater the gifts. I know that that does not seem possible but that is the equation.
Please leave me a comment if this resonated with you today……….and remember to look for the silver linings of each day:) much love and blessings, melanie
There are times that your weekly newsletter messages hit it right on the head. There have been times that due to lifes busyness I have been unable to read the newletter for a week or two. Then I will save them and wait until I have time. It often amazes me how when I do get around to them they are addressing something that is going on in my life at the moment. Had I read them when they were received they would have been irrelevant. Thank you Mel for all of your insight. You are a true blessing.
Marcia
marcia! Isn’t the timing interesting? Yes, we are all so connected. So often when I choose a topic, so many people are going through something similar. It is fulfilling to me to know that what i have to say makes a difference to people. Thank you for letting me know! blessings, melanie