04/24/2023
Hummingbird Medicine 🌺
Don’t postpone joy.
Try to stay connected to her essence, always.
Even when your days are long and challenges seem to trip you at every turn, reconnect with something that makes your heart remember her.
Find the beauty within the chaos of this life.
Some see her as frail and flighty, as childlike and incapable of traveling too far.
I disagree, except for the childlike part.
May we all retain the child’s sense of wonder.
Often, joy hangs out in unexpected places.
Sometimes in our darkest hours she waits around, to console.
She knows your pain is real and your ache may overwhelm.
Yet she remains steadfast and certain.
Your heart can dance still.
From the ruins, from the muck, from the devastation she calls you.
Very rarely is she found in material things, or flashy distractions.
She’s in the sparkle of the eyes of a loved one, the smell of the rain on a summer day, the presence of a butterfly hovering nearby.
Honor her call.
She gets along with all the hard and prickly places.
She can comfort you while grieving, she will accompany you when you feel afraid, she will lift you through the anger, if you let her.
She must be invited though.
She’s skittish when not welcomed.
Cultivate her presence.
Joy looks good on you.
💜
Peace on your path,
Tracy
Artist - Olga Shvartsur
