Treatment by Ed Preston, RScP
I remember as a child growing up in Michigan, I often got to see the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) when I went out at night, especially at this time of year. Now, in Virginia, I never see them, except on the big wall calendar I have here in my den. The month of February shows a beautiful picture of the Northern Lights over Iceland, in February. Next month, my calendar shows a beautiful night sky with the Milky Way overhead. That was also a familiar sight in childhood. I loved, and still love, them both.
Now, I’m older, and when someone approaches with a stern face and says, “Let’s talk about the real world!!!”, I smile and say, “You mean the Northern Lights and the Milky Way?”
So, I now recognize God above and here below, also. I hold the peace and beauty above and the turbulence here below jointly in consciousness. It’s not “one or the other”; it’s a “both/and” world that I live in. It is all God: the glory of shooting stars, and the concern over balancing bank statements, and getting ready to do income tax. I accept it all, loving the simple fact that I can sit here and open TurboTax while looking at the Aurora Borealis before me.
I know we all have the power to blend our lives into a beautiful mixture of the busy turmoil and peaceful beauty of life here on earth, here right where we are at this moment. We each have the power to find the perfect blend of life’s realities at any moment. We can juggle and balance and walk the tight rope of each day knowing we have a beautiful sky overhead. It is all ours as our life.
I know my own power and the power of all around me to see what is, all that Is. We celebrate our power to choose in any moment what is, for that moment. That power is the power to make peace. We simply realize the peace, moment to moment, as a beautiful blend of all that Is.
I am so grateful for memories of childhood, for calendars on the wall, for tools like TurboTax and for the power of my word as I speak my choices moment by moment and day by day. I can simply choose gratitude and the things for which I am grateful moment by moment. I say “Thank you, Spirit, for that power.
I now release myself into whatever is next, knowing I can take the Milky Way and the Northern Lights with me to light my way. I release these words into the law of life, the law that rules all here, and out in the Milky Way, and Northern Lights of the sky. I let it be.
And so it is. Amen
Treatment for February 9, 2016