-- Chief Seattle
Feeling like there's something missing in your life? Maybe you feel
the need to attend a seminar or retreat in search of the "light." Well, if
that's a bit "lofty" for you, maybe planting your feet firmly on the ground is
exactly what you need after all. Consider my own experience on one spring
day, as I watched with fascination as a furious rain scattered across my bay
window. I became detached from whatever I was doing and absorbed in
analyzing the splash patterns on the window. Then it hit me. A moment
later I was in the yard, exposed without coat or shelter, exceedingly
drenched and loving it.
Odd behavior you say? Impulsive maybe, perhaps even weird based
on conventional standards, but I was yielding to a basic need to bond with
my mother, my first mother, from whom we all share our beginnings.
In our youth, most of us were scolded by our well meaning human
mothers for refusing to come in from the rain, for soiling our clothes while
endeavoring to make the best mud pie ever. (For that matter what child can
resist a good puddle?) But, the child knows that these things breathe life
into him, and the natural world is his home.
Sadly, we also live in a world of synthetics, and climate controlled
dwellings, designed to keep the elements of nature at bay. No wonder then
that we have lost touch with our mother. How can we, as adults, regain the
innate wisdom of a child, and find our mother again? We simply need to
allow ourselves to fully experience her.
If you've ever tended a vegetable garden, you already understand the
rewards that a relationship of mutual nurturing can bring. But, there is
more to appreciate. When you walk and talk among the plants, and place
your hands in the warm soil while tending to their physical needs, there is
more taking place than a barter for mutual nourishment. There is an
exchange of pure energy.
This energy can be harnessed. It is the gift of our mother, and it is given freely, again and again, simply for the asking. All we have to do is accept and channel it to help ourselves and others to grow, to flourish, and
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