See The Truth...
I was awake at 6am again, before the alarm which was set for 6.10... We lay there a little while and then I leapt, there is only one way for it when it comes to getting on the road to run...! To 'just do it' as Nike suggests...
It was a glorious summer morning... Down to the sea we ran, up the cliff path and over to West bay...
As we were clambering up the steep slope out of the bay, Anadi said, 'my legs are knackered...'
He decided to stay on the cliff top and enjoy the beautiful morning while I ran on to Burton Bradstock... He said he would meet me on my return run.
As I ran across the headland I remembered the prayer I used to say over and over a few years ago... 'Please show me truth, and I don't mind how it comes... Lead me wherever I am to go, I am ready...'
I reached a steep downhill with steps carved in its side. Just as I started down them I spied, basking in the sun on the second step, a sweet little snake... I bent to examine it. It was very small and stayed very still and looked up at me...
I continued down, then straight up the other side and continued to run and run in the sun...
After half a mile or so I saw another snake, bigger this time, also enjoying the sun...
Two sunbathing snakes in one morning....
I reminded myself of the animal totem...
'The snake animal meaning is powerfully connected to life force and primal energy. In many cultures it is revered as a powerful totem representing the source of life.
When the snake spirit animal appears in your life it likely means that healing opportunities, change, important transitions, and increased energy are manifesting.'
This is resonant; my life has healing as a major orientation and change is ever happening and always has...!
The only certain thing in life is that nothing is certain and that everything will change... In the end nothing will be as we know it now... On the outer realms.
This universal truth is not the 'problem', it is our resistance to it, that causes the distress and stress...
We spend much unnecessary energy trying to keep things the same....
Whereas every single moment is unique and different and everything changes; except for truth...
There is a hymn again, that I remember singing in my past... 'Everything changes, but God/Truth changes not....'
At the core of our being lies our own truth, which if we allow the changes and the transitions and the transformations to occur without resistance, we will find is unchanging and still and will lead us wherever we need to go....
As I approached the cliff top where I had left Anadi, I spotted his orange top, it was like a beacon... He had been working out coding in his head, he told me, and felt he had come up with two answers to a puzzle he was puzzling for the next stage in his programming work....
We dropped back into West bay, ran past the Harbour and up the last hill again... As we ran along the grassy path, we spied hawk, (or some such bird of prey) suspended in the sky, high above the greenness...
It dropped like a stone, disappeared completely into the long grass... It emerged with a little mouse in its talons; and swooped off across the sea...
The totem reads thus...
'Hawk teaches you to be observant, to look at your surroundings, at the obvious in everything that you do. Life is the initiation. You are only as powerful as your capacity to perceive, receive, and use your abilities.
The shrillness of Hawk's call pierces the state of unawareness, and asks you to see the truth. There is great responsibility here in seeing the overall view'.
'Show me truth, I don't mind how it comes...'
