This Storm is A New Beginning
You cannot stop a storm that is raging. Not by fixing things, organizing, yelling, crying, buying or selling things. The waters will be calm again, but the storm must be waited out. The storm is there, as a new beginning, to push, to challenge, to show you who you are.
A Message from the Butterfly, my spirit side:
What a time to be alive. What a time to be dead 😊 What a time to find adventure and new beginnings. They are hard, these new beginnings. Even over here {in the unseen} they are hard. But our soul calls for them when the times is right. When you are ready for the challenge of a new beginning. Because they are immensely challenging. They push you to the breaking point. They invite you to show up with courage when you want to shrink into comfort. They allow you to prove to yourself what you are capable of. Not to the world, not to your kids, not to anyone- but to you!
Because you are always your own judge and jury. You are always the one who judges the harshest, who remembers the mistakes that no one else does, who finds guilt and shame still lurking in the shadows of the past. When others have forgotten, you hold on. That is true for us all, no matter in life or beyond. What we do, who we hurt, who we help, who we are, is for us and only us to judge. For us and only us to see clearly, to know deeply, to allow to be free. So, when a new beginning emerges from the darkness, you can know it is time. It is time, your soul is telling you, that it is time to show up. It is time to find within yourself what it is that your soul is requiring for this new beginning. You don’t need to “know” what exactly it is that you are to be seeing or what you will learn from this time in life. But what you must know is that you are being called. You are being asked to show up for something hard. And, that you are the only one who can feel into this thing.
Feel into the parts that require your courage and your love. Feel into the parts that you want to run from, the parts that make your blood boil or keep you stagnant. You are the one who will look back at this new beginning and know where you dove in, where you shied away, and where you will be given another opportunity. There is no part of life that is punishment, no part that is “karma” as some people think of it. You have done nothing wrong when something happens to you, like cancer, or a death, or an auto-immune disorder. Karma is just a balancing of the soul, not a direct reaction to the something you did and now deserve. Because not all “new beginnings” are positive (in the human way of looking at it). A new beginning has a positive spin to it, but sometimes this just means you are entering into a time in life when you are fighting for your life or your loved one is fighting for their life or your kid is struggling or you are choosing divorce. These are all new beginnings.
Times of immense challenge, times of growth and learning. They don’t come easily to us, but that is the purpose. No one has ever learned anything worth learning when the sea was calm and easy. Survival happens when the seas are rough and churning, when waves keep crashing over your boat. You cannot stop a storm that is raging. Not by fixing things, organizing, yelling, crying, buying or selling things. The waters will be calm again, but the storm must be waited out. The storm is there, as a new beginning, to push, to challenge, to show you who you are. Let the storm be. Because when this one is over, there will eventually be another one. When the next storm comes, you will be prepared, you will know how to handle the waves and you will know it will end- they always do. Your job is not to stop the storm, it is to figure out how to survive it, ride it out, and eventually thrive.
Invite in this new beginning and allow yourself to show up for it. Ground yourself, find your center, and go like the wind.
With love, LindsayAs a reminder, this post was written by my spirit side, the Butterfly, which means that I channeled it, which means that I didn’t use my own brain to create it, but allowed it to flow through me onto the page.
This particular message was channeled because a friend asked me to contact her passed away husband, Hashim, and this was what he wanted to say. She and I both found it immensely helpful in dealing with life at that time. For me, I was one month into our time in France and I was really struggling to stay afloat. For her, it was making the hard decision to end an old relationship. His storm analogy really helped me to focus on the areas I could control and not on stopping the storm I felt I was in the middle of.
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