When an animal or a bird catches your attention, it's helpful to pay attention to what they're doing at the time. It could be an angel message. A clue to something happening or about to happen in your circumstances, and how to best handle the situation. Saturday morning at the local market, a new vendor had a creative display of decoupaged mason jars. The autumn-seasoned red-tailed squirrel was a keeper. Squirrel brings a lesson in giving and receiving, in work and in play. Balance is the message.
Synchronicity was in the air. On our next stop, as I got out of the car, a cute baby squirrel was chattering in a tree. Big brown eyes stared from the limb directly above me. Chattering loud, he didn't let up. Was he stuck up a tree and had forgotten how to get down. The intensity of his constant squawking made me ask the angels to watch over him. After a walk around the lake, I returned to find the tree quietly vacant.
Sometimes, we may be confused about a situation, long-term, or not, we've tried our best to resolve it harmoniously. But we're stumped...up a tree...seeking refuge, waiting for answers.
The next day the up a tree theme continued. At the rehab center, the wild peacocks were missing. No longer strutting around sharing their beauty, I happened to look up. The flock was up a tree, waiting out molting season. Every year they shed their old feathers, and new one's grow in during the winter months. The regal birds go into hiding, dreaming of a shivering new dance, regaled in a brand new full feathered fan, ready to meet a mate next spring.
Fall is a time of letting go--the old passes away to make room for the new...all part of a cycle. Everything has a season. I've been feeling a need to let go of all the things that I no longer absolutely need, to down-size, and not be weighed down by stuff.
To LET GO does not mean to stop caring,
it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To LET GO is not to cut myself off, it's the realization
I can't control another.
To LET GO is not to enable,
but to allow learning from natural consequences.
To LET GO is to admit powerlessness,
which means the outcome is not in my hands.
To LET GO is not to try to change or blame another,
it's to make the most of myself.
To LET GO is not to care for, but to care about.
To LET GO is not to judge,
but to allow another to be a human being.
To LET GO is not to be in the middle arranging all the
outcomes,
but to allow others to affect their own destinies.
To LET GO is not to be protective,
it's to permit another to face reality.
To LET GO is not to deny, but to accept.
To LET GO is not to nag, scold or argue,
but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To LET GO is not to adjust everything to my desires,
but
to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
To LET GO is not to regret the past,
but to grow and live.
To LET GO is to fear less
and LOVE more.
--Author Unknown
Happy Autumn, enjoy your day with the angels. Remember you're never alone. You are in the presence of God's angels. Keep looking up. The best is yet to be.
Love and peace,
Rae Karen
