Learning to Roll With the Unpredictability of Life

Yesterday was a beautiful spring day...blue skies and sunshine and a high of 80. Today? It's snowing here in Denver. To the right is the view out the window beside my desk. The leaves on the tree, green again, and flowering. Some of the white you see on the tree are flowers, some snow.  A study in contrast...spring unfolding even as winter holds on for another day.

I could bemoan the cold temps and slushy snow but the weather doesn't much care what I think of it and isn't going to change to suit my mood or desires. So I figure I have two choices...I can spend the day whining and wishing for sunshine, or I can enjoy the beauty and almost magical quality of the snow falling outside my window, to land on the newly green leaves and the early spring blooms of the trees.

If not for tv and radio broadcasting weather predictions, no one would have guessed while enjoying the lovely spring day yesterday, that today would bring snow. Mother Nature is like that, and so is life. I cannot predict, based on today, what tomorrow will bring, and so I try not to spin stories, positive or negative, about events that have yet to happen, and when something occurs that isn't quite as expected or predicted, I try to roll with it, to make the most of it, to see the positive rather than the negative. For me, living fully, means living in the moment, and embracing whatever shows up in my life.

Am I always successful? Nope. Sometimes I catch myself getting stuck in resistance, in wishing things were somehow different. The beauty of life is that it gives us lots of opportunity for practice, and so today I'm snuggled into my favorite comfy spot on my couch with my sweet puppy curled up beside me as I write, and I smile each time I look up to see the big fluffy snowflakes falling gently outside my window.