Look to the small events of the day

Today I started a spring cleanse.

 A task which I take on every year. Although I’m grumpy and low in energy all through the thirty day restricted diet and herbal cleanse, I lose some winter fat, and at the end I feel better. My digestion improves immensely and that bloated feeling from eating some of our modern GMO foods (even when I try to avoid them, I know they sneak into my diet) is gone. My energy improves and I sleep better since it is the liver that wakes us up if it is toxic.

So I’m going through my kitchen, throwing out all the food that I’m not allowed on my cleanse-white flour products, anything with sugar, fermented foods that won’t keep for the next month. Meanwhile I was ruminating about a relationship that has bothered me for a long time. I won’t go into details; it’s all about me anyways! This person betrayed my trust and stole and then lied to me. I have tried over the years to come to reconciliation with her, but she still maintains her lies and dishonesty. I am at the end of my tolerance with her and I was trying figure out what I should do.

 I had prayed the night before, fervently, about what course of action I should take-I could try to forgive and forget, accept her as she is and attempt to maintain the relationship because it is an old one and she is family. Or I could maintain my own integrity and stand up to her, speak my truth but risk losing our connection. It was a battle between loyalty and personal integrity-what to do!

Then I paused and observed what I was doing as I ruminated. I was throwing out food which was OK, not great but consumable, and although I don’t like to waste food, I had to get rid of it because I was on a cleanse and it wouldn’t keep. So I’m hovering over the compost bucket with a container of white pasta and I realise that my questions have been answered. My prayers were answered in the small events of the day.

God is not only in the world, God is the world. We have only to listen and be present within the small event of our lives for guidance and connection to our eternal souls.

Try This!
1. In the next week, bring to mind a conflict that is bothering you right now. Remember, this is about your learning and becoming more whole, not anyone else!

 2. Ask for assistance in the ways that are familiar to you-a prayer, a ritual, a walk in nature. Ask for help from all the spirits, guides and essences who go with you.

 3. Now be still within. Look for the events of the day, small things that happen, perhaps something that someone says, what you notice as you walk, themes that arise throughout the day.

 4. Seek to understand the metaphoric wisdom of those answers, the insight which these events brought to you. The world mirrors you and your eternal soul, if only you can see and listen.