Elements, a bigger picture

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Just as all elements of our lives seem to work together perfectly ~ something may happen that throws everything off. This can be a situation that suddenly changes causing us to adapt and change our plans. For instance getting a promotion into a better job which requires you to move to a different city. Or, right as you may have given up to find the life-partner you were always hoping for, he or she walks into your life ~ with three kids, two cats and a dog...

Yet going back to the fundamental ~ if not metaphysical ~ elements of air, fire, water and earth; the elements of nature, they are infinitely more powerful than we can imagine ~ let alone comprehend. And the effects they can have on our lives can be devastating...

It is one thing when we use the energy of the elements to help us create the space, or the mood, we want to be in. When the initiative for the use of the elements lies with nature ~ things tend to happen on a much larger scale. Often creating changes that truly require us to reevaluate where we are standing in life, where we want to go, and how we want to get there...

At that point we hardly ever refer to the elements anymore as something that is helping us ~ we tend to describe it with words like: ‘Nature’s fury unleashed’.

The pictures it brings to mind are the storms that ‘eat up’ everything they find in their path, wildfires that decimate forests, flooding that leaves people to need to permanently relocate to some higher ground. And earthquakes that literally take the ground from under your feet.
In each case, nature’s elements expressed in this manner leaves us shaken to the core of our foundation. Not only those that found themselves in the midst of it all ~ but in this day and age when what happens in one spot on the earth travels faster than lightning itself ~ it has an effect on all of humanity.

It sometimes makes me wonder...
If the elements on a much smaller scale can help us get ‘unstuck’ and able to move forward again ~ is the same thing true for the earth? Is the earth using the elements the best way she knows how to create a new foundation, a new and cleansed space with new activities in order to be able to move forward?

If that would be the case, we are likely to be better off helping these changes, these expressions of nature, than we are fighting them... Yet, how do you help the earth itself?
Personally, I am a firm believer that this too starts close to home.
By helping ourselves, our families, our communities, we may find that the elements of our lives fit together in new and different ways we never noticed before ~ but that in the long run can help us move forward.
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