Blessing to all on this Odin's Day,
It's been a challenging week. Suffice to say, some sad news for my wife and I that has lead us to experience pain and sadness that we weren't anticipating. Please keep us in your prayers.
Yesterday we decided to do some yard work, just to keep moving and try to stave off the sadness a bit with some movement. Eileen cut out a big patch of multiflora rose and other weeds and dead foliage and pruned our fruit trees. I mowed the field and paths around it and helped throw things on the burn pile in anticipation of our Beltane bonfire we will be lighting at the end of this month.
In the field we have a red bud tree that sprouts out from a fallen log that was the original red bud. It fell over and was uprooted but yet, life persisted and out of the fallen tree, two new trees sprouted. What was once tragedy, turned out to actually create more beauty as the red bud is now even more picturesque and more interesting than it would have been before.
This is how it goes with life. Each turn, each tragedy or joy that befalls us is an opportunity for new growth, a chance for even better things, even if we can't see it in the moment. We shouldn't put too much stock in any new thing that is in front of us at any given moment, because change may be right over the horizon. Give things time to take root and evolve.
This Havalmal verse comes to mind,
Do not put too much trust
in your newly planted crops,
nor your child to early ---
weather will shape the field
and whim will shape the child
and neither will stay the same.
Havalmal 88
(Wanderers Havalmal Translated by Jackson Crawford)
Weather shaped the red bud and changed its course. May we always be accepting of the weather and the whim and look for the chance to grow in new and unexpected ways.
-Jacob
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