The Sun Will Rise

When it’s too late at night and all seems lost, there is a comfort in knowing that the sun will rise in the morning once again. Though there are no other constants in our lives quite as “definite” as this, we can create those constants. We can create them through our ritual actions that we choose to take every day at similar times. Our mornings can be a positive, welcome of the day and life ritual as our nighttime ritual can be a positive, release of the day and all that does not serve our highest good any longer. We can create these constants through choosing which actions and what timeframe we want to make them and then religiously carrying them out, no matter what. While the environment around us carries out in whatever way it will, the core of stability that we have created through taking control of that which we can will steady and calm our thoughts and emotions. Control is an illusion. When we feel controlled, it is our feelings, when we think we are controlled, it is most often simply something we believe to be so. When we take the actions that we have ritualized and continue to perform them every day, we show ourselves that though the world will do what it does, we can still maintain our own version of control over our own viewpoint and understanding of it. We have the ability to keep both feet on the floor and know that we will wake up the next day and carry out our morning ritual, even if at worst, we must change what it is to suit our environment.

~Janice M. Burke

Image by Janice M. Burke