Cycles

Thanks, Judy W. You always give me pause to think about my own brushes with uncenteredness. How well I related to your story of the untimely email that ties us up in knots!

I've been happily reading Margaret Wheatley this week. Her writing settles me with a style that is poetic and content that is, in my view, sublime. For example, from her book Finding Our Way:

"Life is cyclical–we pass through different moods; we live through seasons; we have times of rich harvests and times of bleak winter. Life uses cycles to create newness. We move from the old to the new only if we let go.

"Instead of fleeing from the fearful place of chaos or trying to rescue people from it, leaders can help people stay with the chaos, help them walk through it together, and look for the new insights and capacities that always emerge."

In Finding Our Way, Meg Wheatley writes about our reactive need to "fix" things through command and control leadership when what our world needs today are leaders who will help us find the order trying to emerge from problems, fear, and uncertainty.

For me, part of finding my way back to peace, center, and purpose is a willingness to sit in the discomfort of uncentered chaotic feelings. These, too, are life. These messy feelings connect me to newness trying to be born, to insight, to my deepest source of inspiration–if I only pay attention. They also the way to finding my human to human connection with others in this oh-so-chaotic, oh-so-interesting world.

Judy R.