“I can give way.” I heard that in Santa Fe many years ago. Being once a longtime resident I knew the alleys and shortcuts around town. So I was in an alley inching the car forward to Gaudalupe St. I stopped before the sidewalk because I knew pedestrians frequent that area. As expected a woman stopped on the sidewalk and made a gracious gesture from her heart and said, “I can give way. I can give way.”
I was intrigued by the phrase then and have pictured it since as a particularly Santa Fe vignette for what it stirred in my mind and heart. This meditation followed……….. If we can but give way, from the heart; we can encourage all paths forward, including our own. It means we are able to surrender our illusory control over petty worries. If we can give way, we can be open to a new experience. If we can give way, we are free to drop the baggage we no longer need. A sweet surrender can free us from habitual thinking to make way for change. We can give way to the universe as it unfolds; as our hearts unfold to the possibilities.
I was intrigued by the phrase then and have pictured it since as a particularly Santa Fe vignette for what it stirred in my mind and heart. This meditation followed……….. If we can but give way, from the heart; we can encourage all paths forward, including our own. It means we are able to surrender our illusory control over petty worries. If we can give way, we can be open to a new experience. If we can give way, we are free to drop the baggage we no longer need. A sweet surrender can free us from habitual thinking to make way for change. We can give way to the universe as it unfolds; as our hearts unfold to the possibilities.
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