The magic of turning your face to the sun

If you’ve been navigating a series of difficult circumstances, it feels like spiraling down into the fog. A swirling, gray miasma of confusion, doubt and uncertainty. Wondering if the ground will ever be solid beneath you again.

Worry becomes your constant companion.

Hope feels naïve.

All you know is the pain of now. One obstacle after another, arrows slinging at you from every direction. It’s easy to become jaded, to think there’s no solution, to believe you are being punished for some past transgression.

You are not.

Sometimes, the path you’ve been walking is a dead end. There’s no life, no energy, no way forward. You became attached to that path, you wanted it to continue. You lament its abrupt end.

But end it must.

That time is complete.

Something better is on the way.

You cannot yet see the details, but you can certainly sense the energy — of potential, of possibility, of redemption. Held by the Universe, bringing forth all that you truly need, what you could not even have imagined.

What helps me to make these transitions is one simple act. I turn my face to the sun. Feel it’s warmth, caressing my skin. The source of all life on our planet…