The sky’s the limit…
One of my natural giftings is to see possibilities, everywhere. I love to see problems as opportunities for solutions, dreams as something that is a few steps away from becoming reality, spaces that look dull & ugly becoming spaces of beauty and rest.
However, this past year, I’ve been meditating almost every morning, and there’s been a shift in the way I experience the ground and having a sense of being grounded. In therapy a few years ago, my therapist told me that I felt “floaty,” and she couldn’t quite tell where I was standing. I don’t blame her… I didn’t know where I was standing fully either, especially in that season.
Image by Dominik Dancs
I’ve been working hard to shift from living mostly in the clouds, to approaching life with balance. Sometimes just adding a string to my kite, other times trying to stay planted on the ground of my mind and heart altogether. Because the clouds can get quite old after a while, and lack the right sense of connection to self, others, God, work, etc…
Image by Niklas Veenhuis
This has been a point of tension in our marriage too… I am always thinking that anything is possible, and James is considering, (very wisely) the practical implications and limits of the dreaming. He has been so supportive of me, in many dreams and pursuits. One of the biggest, being our move to the UK for my Master’s, which was a long time dream of mine. He supported me as I dreamed about it when we were dating, and then moved over with me right after we got married. So he’s very supportive of many of my “sky thinking.” We just see things very differently sometimes. In a disagreement we had recently that boiled down to this theme, he said something like….
The sky is the limit, but so is the ground.
I can’t promise this statement’s accuracy, nor do I quite know if my version is grammatically correct. But when he said whatever he said along these lines, it struck me as a main theme of this past year, as it’s been an area I’ve been thinking about internally, and it seems like an area I’m being drawn to grow in. I want to be planted like a tree, grounded, secure, level…. and grow to, and touch the sky from there. :)
P.S.
Here’s a snap from where I’m musing this morning…. cozy at home as the rain falls lightly in the forest.
