A Higher Perspective
It has been a bit of a surreal one and a half weeks. I live in a pretty bush area that is fairly remote, outside of Sydney. We have just had some of the worst flooding. Whilst our home is not affected by flood waters directly, we do get cut off from the major towns due to the bridges flooding. This has meant that for about 10 days I have been home, stuck indoors due to the torrential rain.
I’m the type of person that really gets stuck in my head, and the funny thing is I am constantly told by my Spirit team to get out of there! I am often told to be guided by my heart and intuition. I am constantly asked to surrender, let go, trust and have patience. Do I listen? Sadly, not very well!
On one of the days I was able to travel locally, I spotted a hawk. It looked so beautiful as it flew by my car. I was then blessed to see another one. As I looked at the hawk, the words, “Look at the bigger picture,” popped into my head. I took note and then put it to the back of my mind. Later when I did a reading for myself I received an oracle card that shows an elder. He gives the warning to not repeat a lesson already learned. I ignored it thinking to myself that I had already learnt my lesson in a certain situation. Well, Spirit certainly was able to say, “I told you so.” Sometimes for all the help and messages we receive from Spirit, we don’t actually listen until we are dragged back into the classroom to re-sit the exam.
Repeating lessons is not something I particularly like, and I am sure you don’t either, because it gets harder every time you have to do it again. I had to sit my test again, and truthfully it wasn’t pleasant, but I think this time, I may have finally, and very humbly, learned it.
Today I decided to go outside and tend to my poor neglected roses. Some of the weeds were taller than me! One weed was pretty with purple flowers, another weed was climbing up my roses and strangling them. Some of the roses I couldn’t even see for all of the weeds. Suddenly, as I stood back looking at a tiny pink bud poking up out of the wild mess, I felt like that rose bush. I was trying to grow. I was trying to blossom, but the weeds were choking me. I was suffocating in the weeds I had allowed to grow in my mind.
It took the weeds choking my rose bushes to see what I should have seen, or what I should have understood when I saw the hawks. The hawks were actually a warning to be conscious of a bigger picture and to not be absorbed in my narrow and limited view. One morning, about 18 months ago I woke up to the message, “Tend to your inner garden.” However, I had not. I’m sure you have heard the saying, “You reap what you sow.” Today I realised how true that is, and how true it is that we must tend to our inner garden.
Our ego loves to be in control. Our ego thinks it knows everything, but really it knows nothing. Our hearts should do the planting and our mind should just be the well tended soil that we plant our seeds in. When we let our minds do the gardening, most often we will end up with weeds instead of beautiful flowers, which brings me back to the hawks. I had allowed my limited viewpoint, my limited vision to let my ego plant rampant weeds that hid anything beautiful that may have wanted to blossom. I didn’t follow my heart, and I didn’t exercise patience. To have a beautiful garden, you need patience. You have to feed it and water it. You have to nurture it with love, and when a weed does plant itself, don’t use poison to kill it because the poison may also kill the flowers you are trying to grow. Acknowledge it, gently remove it and let it be recycled as compost.
So what do you do if the weeds have taken over? You start by removing them, and then tend to the soil. Once you have healthy soil, you can plant new seeds. Ones that will, hopefully, with tender loving care grow into a lush and beautiful garden.
Your relationships and your dreams are all part of the inner garden. If you tend to your inner garden, your relationships and dreams will grow and blossom. Forgiveness, patience, understanding and love are my favourite flowers. With a good dose of humbleness for fertiliser!
PS: If you have a rose in your garden, beware, they do have thorns, but if you nurture them and tend to them with mindfulness, there is nothing like the beauty and delight that they are waiting to share with you.
PPS: A few days later of not heeding Hawk Spirit’s advice, I saw another, and the next day after that, two more! I think he was making sure the message was received loud and clear.
Many blessings,
Zera xx