When it Rains

“When it Rains”

acrylic on canvas board, 2022

Let us not hold too tightly to our beliefs, but rather let them live as nature does.

What served us yesterday, may not serve us today. If we can build our lives upon the foundation that everything changes, we can find more peace. 

The more tightly we hold onto the thing, person, or idea that once served us well (perhaps even changed our life), the more restriction and resistance we create in our own lives.

Things are meant to change. It is the cycle of the seasons, life and death, rise and fall, in and out.

What can we let die today?

Perhaps it’s a diet that once brought us into greater health, but is now leaving us feeling weak or depleted.

Or perhaps it’s letting go of the physician that once helped us through some difficult health challenges but hasn’t been able to assist with our current situation.

Maybe it’s releasing a religious affiliation handed down by family. 

Or simply releasing a mantra. 

Sometimes we need to hustle and grind, sometimes we need to slow down and blow in the wind.

Sometimes we need to travel and see new places, sometimes we need to settle down and find roots. 

Sometimes we need to learn how to be alone, and sometimes we need to learn how to be with others.

Sometimes we need to pause, and sometimes we need to follow the momentum. 

The trouble comes when something works for us and we tell ourselves “This is the thing! This is the answer!” and we think that it will always be our saving grace. 

It’s natural to search for something that feels safe and unchanging, yet it is also unrealistic. We are meant to change, to live and to die. 

We are in fact, wild.

And with every death, comes new life. 

With every rainy day comes greener pastures (and more mushies)!

There is beauty in all of it.