by Jacob Watson,
Welcome. In the quiet of the very early morning, I hear the falling rain hit the roof and clatter in the gutter. The darkness makes the rain seem big, powerful, a force to be reckoned with, a reminder that the day already has a presence.
Find a way now to just let everything drop into silence, including your being. Let go; let silence happen as you simply sit here, simply breathing, in and out, in and out. Every breath is a silent raindrop, falling a thousand feet from the gray sky above…
Experience yourself breathe from the inside out. Let the fresh air come in and travel through your body, and wake your physical self. All your parts feel the breath of fresh air: your nose and mouth, throat and lungs, then down to your toes and back up again.
Imagine you are standing under a waterfall. The water pours down and washes your feelings out. The strong water is insistent, finds its way into all the hidden places, and scours out any feeling, cleaning and shining as it goes. Let your feelings pour from you.
What is uncovered can feel exposed and fragile. And it is; yet after all the layers have been washed away, something pure remains, some quality of essence, something that can be reduced no further. See how you might honor your essence today.
May you allow this day to wash over you, so that whatever is not necessary falls away, leaving you clean, freshened, and pure.
Your gift today is falling water.
Jacob Watson is the founding Abbot of the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine. He received the Huston Smith Lifetime Achievement Award for Interfaith Education. Select Morning Blessing Gift meditations from his book Enso Morning are available as audio recordings on the meditation app Insight Timer. He provides individual students with Spiritual Companionship. For more information and to contact Jacob: www.revjacobwatson.com.
Photo of Yosemite Falls by Jacob Watson.
