The Gentle Beautiful Season Transitions

Transitions can be difficult.  Moving from one place, either physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually seems to come with challenge.  Sometimes very great challenge.  Yes, transitions can be difficult.

Each life season follows a transition of sorts from the previous season.  Many times I find that we as people move from one season to another in a 'kicking and screaming' manner - hands and feet leveraged against the doorway that lies between.

Doesn't this seem stress inducing to you?

Why do we fight it?

Perhaps if we could just see the beauty in it all.  The graceful movement, like that of a highly skilled ballerina, gliding gently, beautifully from one place to the next.  There is a change happening -she is leaving on season with it's defining qualities to enter into the next.  Things will be different here.  She will be changed.  Probably, in every area - changed.

Instead of seeing these changes as negative, stress-producing challenges, why not look at them as wonderful works in progress - beauty unfolding?  Different, YES.  But why not let the struggles and stress fall away and receive what is next with gratitude, excitement, humility - that attitude of the optimistic optimizer.

Let's let today be today, not hoping that it is tomorrow or lingering in yesterday.  In reality, today is what we have - not yesterday and not tomorrow.  Simply today.

There is hope, power, and rest in taking hold of this reality and living the life of the optimistic optimizer.  In every change - in every season, accepting with a smiling face, and making every effort to seize hold of it for good.

It is beautiful, this changing being that we are.  Each season displaying its own 'soul dance'.  Each transition taking us in its arms to glide gracefully into the new.