Many years ago I was driving
along a four wheel drive track in a very remote area of thick bushland in the Kimberley region of Australia. It was all very much the same looking country in every direction. I stopped the car and walked into the bush about 100 metres. I could no longer see the car and having wandered around a little, I wanted to go back to the car.
Panic set in when I realized that I didn't have any idea which way to go to get back to the car. With 'no point of reference' I was left in the unknown, 'I was lost' I didn't know where I was. It was amazing to feel both the panic and the incredible freedom of having 'no point of reference’, until I retraced my foot prints back to the 'safety' of the car, the road.
That experience I never forgot, I really felt the fear of not being in control, of not knowing, of being lost, and how my life desperately always has a point of reference. At this time in the world, and my life, I feel that 'all points or reference' are being pulled away, and I am finding myself in the vulnerability of not knowing.
Instead of panicking in fear and insecurity, and running desperately to seek out a 'point of reference' in someone or something; there's this opportunity to stop, and rest in the unknown.
An invitation to listen to the song 'Once In A Million' from the album 'Surrender'
One of Madhubala's beautiful roses.
