Have you ever felt lost in your life? Frustrated? And anxious to find something. And ever felt that your search has become a task in itself, and a constant struggle..?
So how would it be to stop trying so hard? To trust that the answer or solution will come, somehow?
What do we tell children to do if they get lost when we are out together? “Stay where you are. I will find you.”
Can you picture yourself and the answer you seek walking round in circles, up and down different supermarket aisles, just missing each other like some surreal farce, getting more and more panicked?
Consider the description in David Wagoner’s poem, Lost
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
So how might you create the conditions in your life where the answers, or the good things you seek, might turn up? How might you stand still for long enough for them to find you?
Please share your thoughts or email me to explore this idea further.
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