 Spiritual: August 14, 2013 Issue [#5836] |
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This week: A Wish Upon A Shooting Star Edited by: NaNoKit  
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We all go through dark times - times when we feel helpless, stuck in a suffocating gloom, overwhelmed by negative experiences.
Still, there are smiles to be found, and some are found in nature. We just have to remember to look for them.
This week's Spiritual Newsletter is all about hope - or possibly, coincidence.
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Every year, when the Perseids are visible, I slip outside in the middle of the night, and gaze up at the sky. Every year, I'm out of luck. It's cloudy, or rainy, or I think I've spotted one, only to find that it's a passing plane.
Last night was no different. I stood on the doorstep, watching the clouds. Not a star in sight, let alone a meteor. I did watch a bat for a while, and that made me smile, but I really wanted to a see a “shooting star”.
I remember when I was a child, sat on the back of my step-dad's bicycle, on my way to my grandmother. I looked up at the sky, and saw the most wondrous sight – a bright light, with a tail trailing behind it. All the way there, I watched it, filled with awe, wondering what it was. It turned out to be the comet Halley.
Sights like that are little treasures. When I see a rainbow, it gives me hope. It's as though nature is reminding us that we're part of something intricate and beautiful, something that is awe-inspiring and greater than we often imagine, and that, though we sometimes lose sight of it, we belong.
There are times when we need that reassurance. All of us go through dark phases in life. The last few months in mine have been difficult, and I have struggled to keep up with everything. The smiles, as much as I treasure them, have been outweighed by the gloom.
I guess that is why I wanted to see a meteor last night. Just one, I wished for. Just one.
The second time I went outside – much to the delight of one of my cats, who thought it was play time – the clouds were still there, and when there was the tiniest gap in them, all I saw was a plane. Nothing new there.
I thought of all the things I had to do, all the things that I didn't get around to because of the circumstances. I thought of how I want to be there for certain people, but there's nothing I can do, and I feel helpless. I can't make people better when they are ill. I can't take away the pain they are suffering. If I could share the burden, I would, but it does not work like that.
Around four in the morning, I poured myself a glass of juice before bed, and stepped outside one last time. The clouds had broken. Stars twinkled, and there, clear as anything, was a streak of light. My first meteor sighting. Joy rushed through me, and like a little child, I made a wish.
Then, to my left, another streak, and before the clouds closed in once more, another. Moments later, it was fully overcast, but instead of the one meteor, I'd received more than I'd asked for - bright little winks of delight, that reminded me of the miracles of the Universe.
Sure, it can be argued that they're just bits of rock meeting our atmosphere. It can be argued, too, that it was simply good timing that I saw them, and that is true. For me, though, it was what I needed, and it placed me in a better mood than I had been in for a good while.
And today, it's almost like my wish is coming true. Someone who's been in agonizing pain is finally feeling a bit better. This, too, can well be coincidence. Whatever it is, I am happy for it.
Whatever inspires positivity, I think we should grab it with both hands. For me, it was a meteor sighting. For you, it may be something else. We all have things that give us hope, and joy, and some inner peace.
Nature often does the trick for me. We tend to detach ourselves from it, busy with our day-to-day activities, rushing from home to the workplace and back, stuck firmly indoors most of our hours. Sometimes it helps to walk through a park, or through the woods, or to settle down on a hill somewhere and watch the world go by.
Or you can look at the sky, and you never know, you might get lucky.
One day I hope to see the Aurora Borealis. That's way up there on my bucket list. Who knows, it might yet happen. I just have to be patient, and keep on trying – a lesson I keep on learning, but tend to forget.
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