Hardly Noticeable

Good Morning DearHearts,

For those who read my blog on a regular basis, you know that I love to play in the dirt (or garden as it is usually called). I also receive great insights and inspiration from these endeavors on a regular basis; today was no exception.

I spent over an hour this morning pruning, weeding, and replanting.  However, when I felt complete and surveyed my results, I realized that even the most trained gardener’s eye would not be able to see much of a difference in the end product.  I did not plant any showy flowers, I did not lay down new sod or mulch.  I did not install a fountain or brick path.  I did small tasks. Actually, much of the gardener’s work lies in the small, unseen tasks.

Our spiritual work and growth is much the same.

Once we embark on a spiritual journey, it is a commitment of time.  We have decided to seek for greater wisdom and awareness in order to find an inner peace and freedom.  The result will present itself, but only after the small tasks or shifts have been accomplished.

It is in the barely noticeable shifts of consciousness that Truth and Peace will unfold for us.  Most do not wake up one morning and profess, “I’m enlightened now”.   Most of those that we see as enlightened would dismiss the title when given.

Sitting under a bodhi tree for 49 days does not fit into most schedules in the world today.  It is an amazing story that Eckhart Tolle sat on a park bench for a year. I don’t doubt that it happened, I just can’t imagine how.

Growth is generally invisible.  It is not noticed until after it has happened.  When a baby is born, it comes into this world a certain weight and height. However, as soon as the birth process is complete, the growing process begins, but we do not “see” it happening.  It’s only after a period of time the effects can be perceived. The once small baby is now crawling, smiling and becoming.

Such is true of our spiritual transformation as well.  We don’t notice that our reaction to certain situations has changed, until it does.  All of a sudden the traffic jam on our way to work is less bothersome.  Suddenly, comments heard from friends and family no longer upset us. We are now able to maintain peace and see those that once offended differently.  Nothing outside has changed.  There are still congested highways, there are still those who must be “right” above all else, there are still political stories on the news, but YOU have realized that YOU can choose Peace over anything else.

For myself, I cannot pinpoint a certain day, month or year when my reactions definitely shifted.  In truth I am still shifting and growing, I’m not waiting to be “done”, I’m enjoying the journey and watching this beautiful garden grow and blossom.

“The journey that we undertake together is the exchange of dark for light, of ignorance for understanding.”

In Love, Light and Peace,

Janet Weissman

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