The Spiral of Life: Insights from the Morning Glory

When I’m wrestling with something, God rarely whispers. He speaks through the world around me, and today, it was the Morning Glory.

Whenever I'm grappling with something, God usually uses my environment to grab my attention so that we can have a little sit down.

So, the Morning Glory opens at dawn and closes at dusk...hmm...I'm sensing circadian rhythm is at play here.

The Morning Glory is a spiraling vine. I use the spiral in my work as a jewelry designer all of the time. It's personally meaningful to me, because I've noticed that the rhythm of my life is more of a spiral than a circle.

My creative life goes round and round but with a difference--when I complete one circle, I'm able to reflect upon where I've been with a little more elevation, hence the spiral.

And then I usually repeat the lesson or understanding again, only with a little more perspective as I spiral up or down depending on where I am in my process.

I've had a stressful week, and right now, I'm revisiting some life lessons I thought I'd understood and moved on from.

Turns out I haven't.

I've also gotten off track with my normal circadian rhythm. I'm usually up at dawn and in bed pretty early.

When I started this blog a couple of months ago, I decided to try and establish the habit of writing in the morning.

Because of the week I've had, I've spent more time up at night than usual, sleeping in and haven't written my posts on the schedule I started.

The Morning Glory shows us that we also bloom at dawn and fade by dusk. I've been writing at night and my way of expressing myself is...fading; as it should, because I'm not in alignment energetically right now.

And today, I've had a pretty bad histamine flair associated with psoriasis because I'm not eating as healthy as I normally do.

My rhythm is totally off and I've been struggling with needing naps during the day and generally feeling mentally like my own light is dimmer.

As I look back over the last few days of my posts here, and what I've shared (which is just the tip of the iceberg) about my general life circumstances, I can see why the Morning Glory is showing up as much as it is.

And as for giving me some more insight as to why I am experiencing psoriasis the way that I am, I also see that over the last few years, I've not allowed that natural rhythm of life to express itself as illustrated by the Morning Glory.

I'm not in sync and my body is talking to me, big time.

I've approached my own healing from more of a physical, what can I do approach, instead of a get in touch with my feelings approach.

I think the Morning Glory is showing me the way to healing myself is to honor the fleeting bloom of light at dawn, as well as the closing of the bloom at dusk.

I can't live with just output...I need an equal amount of time with input, too.

I've gone up a rung, I can see where I've been, but I get to have another go with more perspective.

And so it goes.

Random fact about me: I was a Homecoming Queen in Junior High School.