How can I say, I am always OK?
| Posted On 9th May, 2022 |
Blog, By Bec
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I was talking with a lovely lady earlier in the week and she asked me a question about OK-ness. About how it is we can say âwe are always OKâ when sometimes something terrible might be happening to a person. You know, the big stuff; losing a child or loved one; abuse or serious injury and so on.
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It is one thing to say we have a spirit that is eternal, but when those things are happening to us, as human beings we arenât OK, are we?
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I canât remember exactly how I answered the question, but we had a beautiful conversation.
Later that night I was thinking about it again and it came to me like this.
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For me, our being OK isnât to do with a future time. Knowing we have an eternal spirit is a loving thing to know, feel and believe, but in those moments for me it isnât that which brings me back to my OK-ness.
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Itâs thisâŚ.
Last summer I grew some sunflowers from seed.
Have you seen the size of a sunflower seed?
They are tinyâŚ.
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Over the weeks from when I planted the seeds, I was in raptures watching the growth, the first tiny show of something popping from the soil. And then the continuing growth from a tiny sapling to a 30 cm plant, to a 70 cm plant and on and on until it was nearly 7ft!
Here in North Devon, it can get very windy and one unfortunate day, the wind was just too much for my beloved sunflower and it snapped. I was devastated.
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Deb advised me that some plants can fuse back together and could be worth a try. I stood it back up and wrapped it carefully. Over the next few days, I tended to it with lots of water and it perked back up. As if by magic, the stalk has sown itself together enough for the nutrients to reach the sunflower head. I was over the moon.
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Over the summer, whenever it was very hot, the leaves would wilt. With plenty of water it survived and the sunflower head was larger than my hand!
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How did the sunflower know how to knit itself back together?
How did it know that when it was extra hot, to take care of the main part of the plant?
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That inbuilt ability to be OK that I saw in the sunflower, is in me too. And you.
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We are nature. We are the same divine design as that sunflower and all other incredible feats of nature.
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It is a lovely thing indeed to know that something about me is eternal. That no matter what happens in my human experience, that eternal part of me returns to the great big ball of energy.
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But, here and now, what has changed my life is the knowledge that I am perfectly designed to know, in any given moment, how to knit back together no matter what.
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That is how I know I can say âwe are always OKâ.
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