The secret is in your story

Walking home from primary school, I would create a story with repeating ritual actions based on the things there in nature. I remember a flower pot turned over and covered in ivy. I would sit on that and speak out like a queen. Getting there involved climbing a bank of yellow celandines, like a mountain, and squeezing along a narrow ‘secret’ passage alongside the hedge. 

Once I tried to explain my story to my sister but she didn’t understand. Now I know that this was a very early attempt to externalise my inner spiritual life as a kind of journey.

You may have resonated with certain stories you were read or made them up, as I did. There may have been special places that ‘spoke’ to you or where you felt that something ‘bigger’ was going on there. 

As adults, we usually forget these clues to the Life inside us and Spirituality Coaching helps us to piece together the clues to who we are. 

What do you see here? Someone laid that piece of wood down on top of the sawn tree trunk. I wonder why…