The benefit of driving into town so early on a Wednesday morning is that the summertime brings a new view: sunrise. This morning’s was a gorgeous pink hue and I felt like I was catching an early screening of a movie.
It made me consider how the sun, not yet visible to the horizon, still cast its glow over the earth before its arrival. Evidence of what is to come. Yet, it’s effects were present. I used my headlights, but I could still see.
Considering the basic physics, how the earth is simply rotating around to catch a different glimpse of the stationary orb, I then began to consider that darkness – night – is just a different orientation to the light. Correct, we do not see the light. But that doesn’t mean that its presence isn’t still in existence. We – the humans living on this side of the earth – are just turned the other way.
How often do we believe that certain aspects or qualities have escaped us, left us, or have become absent? We use “night” and “darkness” to describe loneliness, hardship, or lack of joy. But if we consider the night is still in relationship to light, just turned in a different direction, we can suddenly have access to hope. Perhaps that’s why the scriptures write that God’s mercies are “new every morning.”
Now that we’re entering into the most light-filled time of year, I hope that you’ll soak it in. Turn your face to the light. Imprint it into your nervous system so that in the depths of winter, when arriving to 6:15 AM yoga classes feels much tougher, you can remember that that light has not left you, we’re simply turned in a different direction, moving through a different season and different relationship to light. But its presence doesn’t stop existing based on our view.
Peace, my friends. Light & love to all.
Summer Solstice Restorative Yoga
