All I have seen
teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sound of rain drops pounding on the roof. We’ve been
waiting for this rain for a long dry month here in Northern California, the year
of possibly the worst drought in our state’s history. It’s easy to freak out
when you read the dire predictions about climate change and the environmental
precipice we appear to be poised on the brink of. It’s easy to fall into fear and despair, and
there sure is a lot of it out there. That, or denial.
Last night I dreamt I was driving up a steep snow covered
mountain in some far away country in my green VW bug, when all of a sudden I
realized I had driven off the edge of the cliff and was flipping over in mid
air. I remember thinking – “Hmmm, this is not a good situation.” And then I
thought, “No problem, I’ll just grab onto this branch (which magically
appeared, Dr. Seuss like, from a neighboring mountain peak). So I did. I
grabbed onto the branch with one arm, wrapped my other arm around my bug, and
managed to hoist myself back in the driver’s seat, and continue on my journey
up the mountain.
So why do I tell you this rather phantasmagorical dream
tale? Well, because I think it carries an important message for me, and perhaps
for you too, dear reader. I believe it is a message of reassurance. I may be
going out on a limb, but I am safe and I have the inner resources to deal with
unexpected challenges.
We may be hurtling over the cliff of climate change, yet the
Intelligence that has created this universe has planted in us the that same
creative Intelligence, and the seeds of solutions, which are ripening and ready
to burst forth into flower, just at that perfect moment. Or, as Danish philosopher and physicist Neilsa
Bohr, puts it “Every great and deep
difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our
thinking in order to find it.”
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