Have you ever had the experience of walking atop crusty snow? How long did it take you to realize that you are walking on water? As I was doing just that, walking atop crusty snow that is, I suddenly realized that I was walking on water!
Here is how that went:
I was walking along doing quite well navigating after a blizzard that dumped more than 2’, yes that is feet not inches, of snow on us. I had traveled this path twice yesterday during the peak of the storm and felt the burn in my hips and legs as I trudged every step, sinking to my knees or higher with the wind whipping the snow in my face.
When I stepped out the door to head down this same hill the next morning, I felt the snow hold my weight instead of sinking in. Crunch, crunch, crunch. I was delighted! I felt like a giant above the ground so high. My regular view of this part of the world looked so striking from this higher plane.
Then, it occurred to me, what a magical thing it was to be able to walk on water! That’s when it happened, crunch, crunch, goosh, down went my foot and I sank with it into the snow. I attempted to right myself with the next step but the next foot just wouldn’t hold either.
Now this magical walk was turning into a treacherous trudging through thick, crusty snow that I sank into up to my knees with each step. After I took several steps, each time attempting to find that balance point where I could be on top of the snow again, I realized that I had had a Faith crisis. I had questioned the fact that I could walk on water! I had thought to myself that only Jesus could walk on water. It had all happened so quickly that I didn’t even recognize it until I paused to wonder why I was unable to do that magical walk again.
While pausing I had to give myself ‘the talk’. We all know ‘the talk’. That self-talk that tells us that we really are worthy and that Jesus walked on water in order to show us that we could do so too. That talk that drops us from our head into our heart, grounds us and reminds us that we too are energy and faith and power when we allow ourselves to be.
Talk given and accepted, trudge goosh, trudge goo, trudge g, crunch, crunch, crunch. And back up I was again.
Eh, science might want to explain this faith walk away by the thickness of the crust in certain areas, or the fact that I had stepped harder in order to fall and then my quest to bring myself up again was one of force that broke the crust. But I prefer to walk in Faith!
Not that I disregard science and all that it has helped us understand. I am grateful for the knowledge that we have learned over the years. I just prefer to align with the energies as they present and the messages that I hear in the moment rather than to walk in rigid beliefs.
Once my Faith was re-aligned and I acknowledged my guides I traveled with ease yet again.
Crunch, Crunch, Crunch. What a beautiful world and a perfect view of it from atop the snow.
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