Editorial

Greetings All,

As I write this editorial, Spring has just come, and the flowers are beautiful. Growth is abundant in my garden. Leaves gently unfolding from barren stems, flowers exploding onto the scene. Somehow over the winter I had forgotten how much I love sitting by my pond and hearing the water flowing down the waterfall. Looking at each individual plant and admiring its colour, shape, growth and individuality. The many relaxing hours of meditation spent watching the process a spider goes through to assemble his web or my connection to the earth as I sit and pull strands of grass from the edge of my garden. Why use tools when you can meditate and maintain in the same breath? The love of being in my yard has been remembered again.

I felt a similar "remembering" when I experienced my spiritual awakening many years ago. I was driving down the road and WHAM it hit me. All of a sudden I understood so much. Like a doorway in my memory swung open and the light shone through. All my life I had struggled with the concept of God and in one single moment I remembered...and everything made sense once more.

Some people wait for their own personal darkest night before they choose to grow and change. The "step programs" all speak of a higher power and the assistance it brings. The growth these people find in these programs is staggering. Through their pain they find themselves.

Growth comes to each person differently. As women we experience great growth when we transition from Maiden to Mother. Birthing our first child is life-transforming in so many different ways. We are never the same again. The love we feel, the responsibility we feel, along with the years we commit to this small person...through this life-altering change, we grow.

I wish for all of you...growth. In whatever forms that come for you.

I would like to take a brief moment to thank all the writers in all our issues for their contributions. Their own personal experiences, shared with all of us, assist us in our growth ... just as writing it down assists them in theirs. I am blessed to be a part of this wondrous symbiotic cycle.

Much Light,
Aleesha Stephenson