Photo by: Jeannie Selda
“When you feel shaky and unstable, it often comes after Awakening to a deeper truth, which displaces old, well-rooted, sub-optimal ways of looking at life.
Your entire biochemistry shifts in response. So it is real! You are not cuckoo!”
– Jennifer Hough
A little about PRICKLES and SPARKLES.
I was down by the river today, having my “bamboo forest walk” (who knew bamboo grows in NC?), and I got into such a deep state of appreciation of the beauty of my surroundings. The sounds, the smells, the dragonflies. My heart was wide open, and I was receiving as I was appreciating. A powerful reset. As I was walking back to the car, I noticed buttercups (which I hadn’t noticed before, and they brought me right back to six years old), trees waving at me, and the sparkles on the water.
HOWEVER, in the middle of all that bliss, even though I had long pants on, I felt something “bite” me on my ankle. A bite? It didn’t make sense. Because I was so present, that I knew it was not a “bite;” it was a, “Hey you, over here.” It was a blackberry bush whose branch was close to the ground and in my path. I had walked right by it.
SOMETIMES we think we make this stuff up, but we don’t… nature (and others’ higher levels) do call out to us.
By the way, I loooooooove berries, and I had just had some blackberries on my oatmeal that morning.
Instead of being mad at being “prickled” by a blackberry bush, I realized that it was going to get stomped on. At first I was mad I got bit, but quickly (in my blissed out state) realized that it was the blackberry plant making a cosmic phone call. When we are present we can hear them.
It said vibrationally, “Can you pick me up and put me with the other branches, off the path where I will get stepped on?” So I did. It didn’t want to be hurt again, and it asked for what it needed.
A few things.
- When you are in overflow of life force, like I was after my half hour in nature, you will have the opportunity to give from your overflow when a “bite” gets your attention. Otherwise, you will just see it as a bite, be angry, and move on. Those opportunities are available all day long, with all sorts of people. But most of us are not present, therefore we don’t hear the call. We just get angry that someone bit us.
- Pay Attention: Every time life gets our attention, it is either a call for care, or an act of love to be received
- Everything truly does happen for us, but if you don’t slow down, you will just use force to make your intentions happen without receiving. It will seem like things happen “to you” instead of “for you”.
- Sparkles on the water are for you: Creation didn’t have to make water and sunlight that way. Heck, we didn’t even have to have eyesight to interpret that beauty. The sound “shhhhhh” that the leaves make, could have sounded another way; yet that is the way leaves sound in the wind. It didn’t have to be that; it is the Universal sound that any mother makes anywhere in the world for their child to find calm… but it is. Dragonflies don’t have to land on your knee, but they do! This world was designed to be enjoyed, not controlled. Life is the same, and everything I did today was free. It might as well have been a carnival; yet, it was simply nature.
People who thrive in life don’t change their circumstances; they bring Heaven with them no matter where they go. And if you’re lucky, you will be present enough to be activated by their love for life.
If you are wise, you will become one of those people who overflow onto others.
Go forth and multiply.
With love,
Jennifer
xoxoxo
