Can I leave the seed alone?

It’s finally spring here in New England and I always find so much beauty in watching nature do it’s thing, as growth happens naturally.  The flowers bloom when the feel the extra warmth from the sun.  The animals come out of hibernation and find new homes. 

No one is telling it to start or asking it to happen faster, it just is.

I often find myself planting seeds and setting intentions. I am clear on what I desire.  I plant the seed and then I wait.

Maybe it’s a couple days or a couple hours and there I am digging them right back up.  

The most trouble I have is with allowing them to grow.  Before the seed even has a chance to open its roots to the earth I am asking why it’s not working.  And in this moment I cast doubt.  

Maybe I wasn’t clear enough.

Maybe it’s just not for me. Maybe it won’t work.  

The truth is that maybe it just needs my love, trust, and faith.

My patience to let it grow in its own divine timing.   

The hardest thing is wanting it now.

I am learning over and over again that waiting can be so painful. It’s not often the waiting that is so hard it is the complete trust I must hold during the  waiting. The what if’s and the doubt are so quick to appear. 

Can I leave the seed alone? 

Listening closely and tending to my precious heart.  Allowing my intentions to be clear.  Pausing to come back into my body and feel my trust.

I am learning my intentions have power just like nature to open when they are ready.  To take their most beautiful form in the most unexpected moments and to simply take our breath away.  

Leaving the seed alone and nourishing it with love, is what I am committed to this spring with my whole heart.