Hating Snow and Eating Bananas

The wisdom of a never-ending winter + Expect Miracles Guided Meditation

How it should be. How it is.

There is nothing quite like wearing your winter jacket and looking around at the snow covered landscape in April that offers the opportunity to practice the work. Like really really practice; the hard work of “living as though everything is a miracle.”

What’s so amazing or wonderful or breathtaking or, heck, even just plain old fine about watching the miracle of a fresh new tulip, working so hard to find it’s way through the earth, up and out into the light, only to get snuffed out by SNOW! Where’s the miracle there, huh?!! (*angrily pounds at keyboard. I think 6 months of the hardest. winter. ever. that just won’t end and teases us with 15 degree days followed by -10 degrees with punishing winds that affects the brain. That darkens the heart and breaks the spirit…)

Which is exactly why we must do the work even when it’s hard. We must commit to the practice, even when we don’t want to. The practice of patience; of acceptance; of releasing our grip on the expectation that things be the way we want them to be; that things be not what they are. The practice of presence; resting softly in the moment of whatever is, exactly as it is. (*takes a deep deep breath.)

It is April. It is snowing. It is. It is as it is. And as I take a deep breath now (ok, as I take several) I feel my body soften and my fingers return to a much more appropriate pace across the keyboard, I look over my desk and notice the banana peel left over from from earlier snack. A banana….I mean, what an amazing fruit the banana is. How magnificent nature is to come up with something like that? And all the way from Guatemala. Guatemala! 5000 km away and yet here it is. And here I am, having just experienced it’s sweetness and received it’s nutrients.

It’s actually kind of a miracle, isn’t?

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ― Albert Einstein

May this guided meditation will help you remember the miracles that are all around you.

much love,

Carolyn 💞