[blockquote source=”Rumi”]”Don’t worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”[/blockquote]

My dears, this morning I was reading over this most beautiful passage. It’s from one of my most favorite poets, Rumi…who, in just a few short words, begs us to question the truest view of our own personal circumstances.

How do we know, my dears – whether the ‘that which is now’ is ever any better than the ‘that which is to come’?

And yet, we cling so desperately to these, our present conditions – unyielding, in what we perceive to be ‘stable’ footing. In doing so, we become lock-stepped in our efforts to ever move forward.

We build up these safety nets, fearful of that imminent fall. But, what we don’t ever realize is that…in time, even this safety net can become a ‘noose’.

Perspective is a powerful tool – with just a simple shift of our gaze, the horizon breaks with new meaning and clarity. And, it’s just this very shifting of view that has the capacity to change just about anything.

That is, if we let it…this momentary shift into unsettledness.

I mean, how would we ever really know? Whether the hardships of today, are not intended for tomorrow’s greatest resilience?

And, if this sorrow than often sends us crashing to our knees…isn’t likewise presented to teach us how to rise up?

Indeed, if it weren’t for all this thrashing about – how might we ever learn to stand tall, at all?

My dears, it’s precisely when our lives turn upside down – that we are finally able to realize the purpose to our being.

And, this – the just who we are now.