Sunday was a beautiful day and I did get out to enjoy the Fall Colors....
Nature has a way of restoring my balance, settling my soul, and brings life into focus. Reminding me that the Universe has things all under control...even if at times, parts seem to be way out of control. There is a reason for the upheaval, a test is going on, a lesson is being delivered...something that is not in balance is trying to balance itself out.
When things are at their most turbulant, a huge exam is going on...an examination of you...of your life, your choices, your beliefs, your thoughts and inner feelings, something is off that is now seeking balance. Our test is to find what is out of alignment with natural self. To even find a natural self...a self that is wholly you. To separate yourself from others, to find a container called you. What do you feel, what do you know, who are you?
Not only who are you when you are with others, but who are you as you. Just standing alone what are you made of?
I know, that typically, when things are out of control in my life, I look first to blame the other person. But, what I have found time and time again, when I put the power and control in other, I am then the victim of their actions. If, I need them to act a certain way for my happiness, then I have given them my happy button for them to control.
Learning how to extricate myself from others was a lesson that was repeated over and over, and it pulled my power back from multitude of lives.
It is my greatest desire to restore inner power, not only to me, but to all I have relationships with. I want each of us to be separate powerful individuals. The strongest relationships are the ones with two strong individuals...whose individual power is in complete balance. Where you are not leaning upon each other for your full strength.
Most of my life's lessons were undoing co-dependency...and learning to stand and walk alone.
This solitary walk can seem scary and wrong even for those whose lives have always been secure in the comfort of another.
Coming from not only a cult like religion and abuse, but also co-dependency, it has been my greatest achievement to separate and be my self. One that took extreme amounts of effort and pain to detach myself....but one that has given me complete freedom to be me.
To live my life from the inside out...to be my natural self.
The Bridge and Portage Lake on a calm Fall Sunday Morning.
In the afternoon, my husband and I took a ride to Mt. Arvon, the highest point in Michigan. Here is the view from the top! It is looking over Huron Bay, Keweenaw Bay and into Lake Superior. The colors were peak! Hard to capture in a picture what the naked eyes sees.
And coming down, we spotted this little pond, with wonderful reflection!
Peaceful nature...just being itself. Raw Beauty.
And, I Love my jeep. (didn't sell, so it is mine again!) I am so excited to be back driving this. It will make my job so much easier to be back driving on the right. And, it is a great little date vehicle...
The woods are so beautiful it takes your breath away.
Fall is nature's way of showing us how change is beautiful!
