Restoring Balance
We
all come into this world with a task to accomplish… when we don’t think
on these things and we get too caught up in the day to day we forget
our spiritual responsibilities. We reach a stage where we ask, “Is this
all there is?” - “Why am I here?”
Growing
up in Barbados, we spent many wonderful days walking the beach and
poking around the reefs of the east coast of the island… ahhhh… there is
nothing between there and the coast of Africa - the air is cleaner and
waves never stop crashing.
My
dad bought our beach house over 55 years ago. He wanted my eldest
sister to spend as much time there so it would ease her asthmatic
conditions. All four girls have the best memories of spending time at
the beach house. The carefree days of being in the sun and getting the
salt spray all over your skin and the sand in your hair - oh those were
the days. I would spend hours looking into all the rock pools in the
reefs at low tide. I’d talk to the fish and hold the sea urchins and
watch all their spiny needles dance. I loved all the seaweeds and coral
formations - they were home. They needed to be cared for and
protected.
Years
later I would find myself happily married in Toronto. My husband Paul
loved the east coast as much as I did and cared for the environment just
as deeply. I always wanted to help but I didn’t know how. I wanted so
much to clean up the beach and to educate people on being more
environmentally conscious. We raised our boys checking out the fish and
looking for patterns in the coral formations when we’d go on our
holidays back home. They grew up frolicking in the same rock pools that
we did and our parents did. I wanted for these precious human beings to
have the same experiences that we had growing up.
There’s
a part of us that gets lazy as we “grow up” - we forget the power and
gifts given by the creative forces - we stop taking time to be still and
we don’t make time to align with Source. This takes us away from the
things we love and treasure - the same things we want for our children
and our grandchildren. And yet if we don’t make time for those things
and show our children that we are doing all that we can to keep “our
home” pure and clean, how will they learn and what condition will our
planet be in if we don’t make time to look after what we forget is most
dear?
If
every home made a conscious decision to live more mindfully, life would
be more gracious. So often in the taking and working, we forget that a
walk in the forest, a swim in the lake or just laying on a blanket in
the park watching the leaves on the trees and the clouds in the sky is
what we need most to feel that sense of what’s right with us - taking
time to be grateful for all that we have. This can be done by going back
to Mother Nature’s laws; to simplifying and making sure we all take
time to connect to our divine nature. If we made more conscious choices
of what we needed for ourselves, we would be gentler with ourselves and
our planet. Even in the coldest longest winters, we can get cozy, close
our eyes and give thanks. As we emerge into this spring, let’s remember
to give back and take care of our Mother Earth.\
Together we can restore balance to what really matters.
Mala Brindley
Mala
is taking part in a special World Healing Conference led by the
renowned Kathy Roseborough on April 26th. You don't have to attend
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