I was sitting on my back deck this morning after a two hour hike with the puppies. It was a great walk and the chance to rest in the sunshine afterward was a welcome blessing. The sun was warm on my face and the sound of the birds was very soothing: I noticed stillness and quiet as I sat, and, after a few minutes I noticed something else: the wind.
How did I know it was the wind? I couldn’t see it? I couldn’t touch it but I knew that it was starting to build. I couldn’t smell it but I knew it was there. I couldn’t reach out and hold it but I knew it was there. I began to wonder about the beliefs we hold about change and as I pondered the question: why do people fight change, I thought about the effect the winds of change have on our natural environment.
Wind causes trees to bend, grow, reshape and fall. It causes leaves to fly away in reckless abandon and birds to soar on gusts in the clouds. Wind causes clouds to part to reveal brilliant sunshine and it causes clouds to shut the sun out for days sometimes. Wind causes rain to fall, snow to gather on hills, sand to blow in circles in the desert, it dries up rivers and lakes and it can replenish them too. But, here’s the thing I really took from this: wind does not stop any of those events from happening. Mama Nature doesn’t look outside one day and say “um no it’s too windy today I’m keeping the leaves on the trees for one more day.” Mama Nature knows she has no choice, she allows the process to flow and move forward. She accepts the change as necessary, sometimes harsh to be sure, but necessary in order for there to be continued growth. So, the question, why do we human beings find it difficult to accept the winds of change? To accept that, even though we can’t see them, the winds are there, change is happening, we are living as we are intended..Why is that so hard for some people? Go, be fearless, Jan
