The first snow of this season fell last night. This morning it felt like I awakened to a different world. After my initial disappointment in seeing the snow I asked myself…

Can I Be Okay With This?

And by that I meant more — can I be content and happy with this, can I find beauty and grace in it, can I thrive with this signal that winter is almost here? As I often do in the morning, I picked up my camera and began to make photographs through the living room windows. And the beauty I found lifted my spirit. 

As I watched the morning sun melt the snow from the street in front of our house I was reminded again that everything changes all the time. (Yes, I know I wrote about that just yesterday!) My job is to love what is and to flow with the changes of the seasons and of life.

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

   — Rumi

Do you too mourn the end of the warm season and beginning of winter? Try asking yourself, “Can I be okay with this?”

Wishing you joy and flow as everything changes and winter approaches.

May you walk in beauty.


Marilyn

Photographer sharing beauty, grace & joy in photographs and blog posts. I live in the Twin Cites in Minnesota, the land of lakes, trees, and wonderful nature.

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