New life has truly hit! With new landscape emerging all around us, I couldn’t help but connect our own life with what’s emerging in new life outside.
Lawns freshly mowed. Birds chirping. Planters being planted. Beauty all around.
And then, there’s been an immobility of sorts all around us that has created a hesitation and a frozen state.
It’s a reflection of what has happened with us, friends. You see, we have been in a sort of hibernation this past year. Right? Tucked away safely from other humans and “life.”
It’s been a really long year of that hibernation that has felt like a LONG sleep[1] —with terrible dreams that we don’t want to relive and other parts that have taught us much and provided beauty to life.
As I view the landscape, my heart is tugging that it is time to step back into life—look for new ways to view the world around us and step back into really living.
I am choosing new ways of thinking to navigate all the newness around us.
I am pursuing places and spaces that give rejuvenation, bring joy, provide peace and rest. Are you doing that, too?
I am challenging myself to navigate life in a new way.
“Adventure walks” are back on our agenda, where we locate a new neighborhood, park the car, and then walk to see and “feel” the neighborhood. It surprises people at times when they stop us and ask if we are new to the neighborhood! But, honestly, you can tell a lot by walking a new pathway.
That’s the way navigating life and walking it out feels right now. Familiar, but new in a lot of ways.
I am creating new outdoor spaces that allow gathering to happen for conversation, food shared, parties, and celebrating so many things in our lives- graduations, Mother’s Day, anniversaries, birthdays, Memorial Day, and heralding summer.
Caring deeply about family and friends and life with them has increased. Has it with you? We yearn for more time with others.
Self-care needs to be a priority as we come out of this hibernation, too, friends.
Exercise, moving, and breathing all need to be added.
Take opportunities to seek those local places that provide a taste of the garden to create new recipes that get you out of your routine.
View the landscape of your home with new and fresh eyes. Add things that make you happy, from gorgeous plants, trees, or shrubs to an herb garden to enjoy through the summer months.
How is your landscape going?
Your new view of life?
Step back into living, friends, and ALL it has to offer. Look for it. Grasp it and share it.
THAT, friend, is what should be contagious this year…LIFE and living it with peace, joy, and rest from the last year.
As the school year ends and vacations begin, think wisely.
How can you step back into the game of life? And navigate it well?
May each step bring rejuvenation and new life in great ways that you never imagined.
