Steward of the Soul's Garden

In an era of short-attention span theatre, time-optimization, and bio-hacks, the natural process of cultivation has been moved to the natural history museum as a relic of the past.

When we tend to anything in nature, whether by hand or by witness, there is a process of cultivation that is apparent. Time doesn’t really exist in the same way in nature. It is just an ongoing dance of patience and persistence.

A plant arises from a myriad of conditions being met. The Sun does not will the plant to grow. It just holds its steady presence ‘over time’. The will is ‘baked in the cake’, so to speak. Rain, bees, and wind come and offer their gifts as part of the journey in their own ‘time’.

This is a natural cultivation. We do the same in a personal garden. We tend to the needs of the life we are holding. We cannot rush its process. The same can be said for our inner garden that is teeming with life of its own.

There is so much focus on self-improvement, self-betterment, and self-realization that we forget there are trees in that forest. Each one an ecosystem in and of itself. These trees are parts and aspects of ourselves that can be forgotten in the desperate need for achievement, acceptance, and advancement.

When we tend to these parts and aspects of us, we are cultivating a relationship that bears fruit over time. This ‘fruit’ can show up in many ways such as self-love, discernment, healthy boundaries, heart-centered truth-telling, courage, vitality, creativity, relationships, et al.

These parts and aspects have lived in a world that has been defined by numerous experiences in this life among many others. These experiences create a gravity that can be challenging to grow out of. They are like the soil of our arising. It can be dark and cold at times, yet there is the light of your Heart and the love of the Divine that gives these parts the courage to come out and be seen and felt…in time.

That cultivation invariably leads to integration and wholeness. I don’t know if I personally will feel that ‘wholeness’ in this life but I do know that this is part of the soul’s journey and I am the steward of it in this dimensional timeline.

When I see and feel it that way, there is no time to waste yet all the time in the world. Love and life are doing its thing and I can just keep aligning with that natural process. Or I can fight it and be brought back to balance through challenging circumstances.

Like the tortoise we eventually learn that just being present and faithfully persistent wins the race that was never really a race to begin with.

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Gabriel Amara is a Divine Masculine Love Ambassador, Divine Self Embodiment Facilitator, HEARTist, and soul scribe.  Visit https://www.divineselfembodiment.com for more information about space-holding sessions and free 45-min intro calls, group calls, videos, community, etc.