Photo: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The tent was set up to serve as an overflow area as the number of COVID-19 infections surges throughout Brevard County because of the Delta variant and large numbers of unvaccinated residents. This morning, I noticed their stance and the muse bid me to awaken.A treatment tent outside the emergency department at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Florida, on July 29. I have focused instead on the taller trees surrounding them. I haven’t noticed before how far they lean out. To change, we must uproot our fears and let courage draw us out of our comfort zones into the vast universe of possibility beyond all we know, all we believe to be true.Įvery morning, Beaumont the Sheepadoodle and I pass through the copse of trees in the picture above. We cannot change when we stand in the same spot, rooted in our fears. Rooted in our fears, we ground ourselves in the belief to risk change is to lose control of all we know, all we believe to be true. Our dreams call us to lean out, further, away from our comfort zones, out beyond the realm of where we tell ourselves we will be safe, into the space beyond all we know, all we believe to be true. A never-ending ballet of leaves yearning for light and branches pulling against their roots as they reach for the sun. “Too far is dangerous,” they tell the branches. Desperately they fight against gravity, trying to keep their branches from reaching too far.
“Lean further! Lean further! You’ve got to lean further to reach the sun!”Īnd the branches push out and away from their trunks, their arms reaching further and further into the space beyond where they must compete with their brethren to gather sunlight.Īnd the trunks pull back, rooting themselves deeper and deeper into the ground they know so well. The leaves whisper amidst the trees branches reaching out towards the sun.
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