The Tipping Point

Dear Friends,

One morning, earlier this week, I was sitting under the awning of our vacation cottage while my boys still slept, enjoying the view of the canal next to me, the rain that was singing to me as I sat, and the cup of coffee in my hand.

As I watched the rain fall, a plant across from me caught my eye and entranced me for quite some time.  The particular leaf on this plant that caught my eye was slightly bowl-shaped, and would collect the rain water as it fell.  The rain water made a beautiful magnification of the star shape in the middle of the plant as it collected.  The plant would gather the water, and then at a certain point when it got too heavy would lean over and let said water drop to the earth.

The plant wasn’t crushed by the weight of the water, when it got to be too much, it simply leaned over and released the water's weight.

As I watched the dance of the water and the plant, I was thinking about how it might feel if we all took a little lesson from this plant.  Certainly, we will never be able to release all of our responsibilities when they get to be too much, but how might it feel if, when we inevitably gather too much in our lives, we simply let go of some of those responsibilities instead of allowing them to build until we are crushed under the weight of them.

Perhaps we can turn that tipping point in our lives into an intentional letting go.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista