Spring | Forgiveness
“Look, it’s spring. And last year’s loose dust has turned into this soft willingness. The wind-flowers have come up trembling, slowly the brackens are up-lifting their curvaceous and pale bodies. The thrushes have come home, none less than filled with mystery, sorrow, happiness, music, ambition.
And I am walking out into all of this with nowhere to go and no task undertaken but to turn the pages of this beautiful world over and over, in the world of my mind.
* * *
Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you
for everything.”
“A Settlement” by Mary Oliver from What Do We Know, Poems and Prose Poems
This pre-Spring season seems wet with the potential for release in wild and unpredictable ways. Often we are presented with the frustration, and then a glimmer of realization hangs. That glimmer is the key to letting the weight of doubt or worry recede.
So forgive yourself as you can and watch what presents with your newly created space. I can’t say it any better than Mary Oliver, but we can do it, we can get ready to forgive it all and watch what the divine does with that decision.
I touched on this idea a bit with Dante’s river of oblivion in the last creative lunch break and in this podcast episode:
It sounds dramatic, but really it is an ageless tail reminding us of the pulsing power of Nature and the timeless support that is only a breath away if we seek it. When is the last time you scheduled creativity and “unreasonable joy” (as Preston Smiles says) in your calendar? What would happen if you did? Click and find out.
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