By Ashley Devers

Walking through an awakening journey can feel disorienting. As if you are walking on ice, not able to catch your footing and forced to step forward gently. It feels like your path is glazed over and you aren’t quite sure which direction to head in. But you know and trust that as long as you remain upright, you can toll forward in small strides.

You will find moments where the sun has melted patches of ice and the good Earth below pokes through with radiance. These earthy spots provide moments of clarity, traction, and grounding. Utilize these steps as re-orientation on your new path, and trust deeply that the ice will continue to fade away with the continued presence of Light.

Stride forward on your path, whether it is made up of thick ice or clear ground and find your own rhythm forward. Understand that you are stepping to a new beat that is not the same movement of one foot after the other in a linear fashion. Rather it is a movement of trust, surrender, and allowing yourself to be guided down a different path than you are used to.

For this movement of trust, surrender, and allowing deepens you into your journey. It equips you to walk on any terrain, and into any world you encounter. To walk both on this Earth and with the Divine, and to walk in the dark of night and in the light of day. For it no longer matters if you are stepping on ice or firm ground; in your awakening journey you are walking through life in a new way.

As you walk in this way, you find that your Soul becomes your new compass to orient you, for it has a wisdom within that knows how to trek through the most glazed over paths or the most treacherous weathers. And the Divine will hold you upright with faith and hope.

So glide forward with God carrying you and your Soul guiding you. As you continue to walk forward, even beyond icy patches and into dark forests and mountainous paths, you will see the Divine within and around you meeting you on this journey. For it has ventured here before, for the Divine is the path that you walk upon.

Look around for this wise world around and within you that rises to meet you as you step onto your path. For the deeply rooted oak trees you walk along will lean in to comfort you and reassure you that you can withstand by digging your roots down deep.  You will hear the birds chirping in the sky to remind you that you are not alone and to listen to sounds that are beyond words. And you will feel the steadiness of the rocks that serve as trail markers along your path to remind you it is safe to reside in spots of stillness and solitude on your journey.  

For your Soul and God are one in the same and they share this Divine wisdom with all you see on your awakening path. This wisdom runs deep in all that surrounds you, and within you.

Trust as you venture onto glazed paths or mountainous terrains in your awakening, that you will be fully led by a world that holds the wisdom you need. And trust you are equipped deeper than you know within to step into this path, even if it feels like you are stepping onto the ice for the first time. For you are equipped with Divine essence that will never fail you.