The Resourceful Tempest

A Meditation

At the end of a humid, hot, hazy day of working quietly you notice that the air is now filled with a powerful shifting sense of energy current. As you go outside a fresh smell of clear clean air begins to attract your attention. Looking out across the land you see a thick velvety blue-lavender cloud transverse the horizon and begin to swiftly roll towards you across the sky. The winds begin to pick up and sweep through the trees. Then there is an eerie stillness, as all the birds and elementals hold their breath waiting to see what is about to happen. Sensing the storm is ready to break you return to your study. Suddenly the lights and electrical equipment pauses and flickers on and off several times. You turn off all the lights, the air conditioner, the computer and once more turn your full attention to the approaching storm. As the wind grows stronger you open all the windows and doors allowing these wonderful currents of air to sweep through the house – so cool, so refreshing and so welcome! The skies turn darker and the heavens open as the rain falls in thick sheets, the storm blows it in swirling through the open doors and windows misting your face and the many furnishings in your house. 

Entering your sanctuary you sit in the dark with the thunder and lightening flashing forth, lighting up the sky and mesmerizing you. The shifting elementals play along the trees as they sway, twist and bend with the force of churning winds and the descending water pouring forth from the sky. You continue to watch the magnificent creation of the elementals as they dance and play within the music of the spheres. While you quietly sit by your open window you become fully involved through the sights, sounds and smells. The trees gracefully dip and bow to the harmony of the wind and the rain swirls and shifts amongst the plants, striking the ground, pouring forth, cascading down, cleansing, and refreshing everything it touches. And just when you think it has reached an impediment it still continues to swirl and dance into and along the earth, over the surface of the rocks and gravel, becoming rivulets and streams rushing down hills and along roadways to join and become a rushing gushing river chasing along and driving against the boulders and gullies it encounters. 

 The trees and earth thirstily and quickly soak up what they can as the shadowy sky offers this liquid refreshment forth as swiftly as possible. The earth, plants and trees voraciously absorb this wonderful energy, vibration and blessing, which they use to create and expand their lush green leaves, their soft pale flowers, the emerald bushes and transform and manifest this moisture, this energy into a longer lasting manifestation of the Divine One Universal Consciousness. What a miracle! How easily one might have missed this magical event and its implication for all creation by simply ignoring the elementals and their activities. How easy it is to not be open to all the incredible miracles that occur every moment of every day – to take for granted what is being actively created by all life around and within us. Do these simple life forms have the choice as to what or even if they will create such beauty that may be ignored or not appreciated by other life around them? Or do they just create for the simple gratitude of returning their God given energies back to the Supreme Source and Oneness of all Life?  

In gratitude you are thankful for their insistence that you be part of this wondrous event, a witness to their creative ingenuity and vow not to so easily forget or become too self absorbed - so as not to honor or praise all the creative brilliance around you. You solemnly promise yourself, them and most of all, the One Universal Consciousness to devote more time to being truly mindful not just of what you do and create, but by what is all around you – the sights, sounds, tastes, smells and feelings of all things both emotionally and tactile.