Its all relative. I live in Los Angeles and we don't see rain for 10 months of the year. When it rains the world is transformed. A puddle is news worthy and traffic is crazy and people just don't know how to cope.
Now, in Ireland where they don't see the sun for 10 months of the year we see the same thing in reverse. The sun comes out and everyone goes a little crazy, very quickly the heat becomes too much and people don't know how to cope. I often joke with my family about having an exchange of days so we can bring balance to the experience of life in our diverse worlds.
Unfortunately I cant pack up a day of sunshine and hand it to the US mail for delivery in Ireland so we all continue to endure and make the most of our circumstances.
I think its a bit like that in our lives as we negotiate the circumstances we encounter at our age and stage in life, in our career or in our relationships. We are each given a complete different set of cards to play this game of life, and depending on our choices of what we have left down or picked up we must now deal with the hand we have got! So we endure and we make the most of its joys and its sorrows and even if we could we would not swop our set of issues for someone else's.
So we deal with what is and hopefully we can let go of judging if its good or bad, for all seeming good has a down side and all seeming bad has an up side, or positive to be gained if we look hard enough. All good AND bad come to pass, which is nice to remember when we are going through a bad patch. We don't like to remember that when things are good but more and more as I grow more mature I tend to "cast a cold eye" as Yeats epitaph says and just be with what is, fully living each moment, not wishing anything away but knowing things will change in their own time.
Today I am reveling in the rain. Looking out at the umbrellas running this way and that and the drops falling hard in the puddles, grateful California is getting what it desperately needs and hoping it lasts. Loving what is today is easy! Im warm and dry and the rain is falling across the dry plains and the farmlands that need it. And when the sun returns too hot for Christmastime I will do my best to just be with what is, casting a detached eye, observing and allowing this wonderful and mysterious life to unfold as it will.
"Cast a cold eye on life and on death, horseman pass by." William Butler Yeats
In and through all things Love is the message that Spirit would have us know; that we are loved, that we are love and that love is always the answer. Let the words you read here be a message for you today from the Universe that created you, perfect as you are.
A here Joan . !!.. we get sun in Ireland every month . not much of it in winter and not very hot in summer ... ten months without sun ?... north of Iceland maybe ... just sayin !
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