How the Most Unexpected Thing Took My Breath Away While I Was on Vacationfeatured

I am a spiritual human. I believe in the Universe. I believe we are all perfectly imperfect. I believe we are light. I believe we are dark. I believe both these things are true and both are beautiful. I believe movement feeds the soul. I believe we are love. I even believe in therapy and tools to help us thrive.

But there is one thing I have never paid too much attention to or really “believed” in on a soulful level.

Something that is there and others love that I have never seemed to “get.” It is something so central to human beings, yet something I have always overlooked. It is what keeps civilization alive and what feeds each and every one of us. Yet, I have never truly reflected on its beauty. I have written poetry about it but only because it was an easy lead into metaphor.

I finally saw this “thing” the other day while I was on vacation with my lover. We took a long, scary, windy road up to Hana in Maui. I held on to the edge of my seat the whole way there. I had this feeling in my gut around every blind twist and turn that we would die by an oncoming vehicle.

It was a wonderful bonding experience, sure. “I am not really sure why people do this for fun,” I thought to myself. I was hungry and thought the view was gorgeous but not gorgeous enough to do this drive of death ever again.

We finally made it to Hana, an enchanting “Old Hawaii” village. It had ocean and green views for days. Yet for some reason after all those hours in the car, it seemed beautiful but nothing to write home about. We hopped in the car and headed back to our hotel. We could check this activity off of our list, I thought.

As we finally made our way back into the town we were staying in, it slowly became Golden Hour. That time right before the sun sets when everything looks dreamy.

We were 20 mins away from our destination. That is when that “thing” I keep talking about finally came into view.

As we drove down that last bit of road, all I could see was the vast ocean in front of us, on both sides of us, and behind us. It enveloped us in all its glory.

Time stood still.

Suddenly, I couldn’t find my breath.

That is the moment when I saw it, more specifically Her – Mother Earth – for what She truly was for the very first time in my entire life.

Tears rolled down my cheeks. My chest filled up with more love than I ever thought it could carry.

I fought it for a minute, not understanding how this view of nature could have this effect on me. Then I realized She had been there all along, to hold me, to comfort me, to keep me safe. Some of the tears came from a place of understanding I had taken her for granted all these years.

But how could I have?

I took Her in, I let Her teach me something I can’t even begin to put into words that make any sense. She is not a thing, She is a feeling – She is the ocean, She is the view during golden hour, She is broken, She is thriving, She is temperamental, She is ever-evolving, She is mysterious, She is love.

All I could feel inside of me when I finally saw Her was deep, deep love flowing through my veins. I felt so much of it that it came out of my eyes in the form of tears.

How precious She is as She guides us in this life… showing us bits and pieces of Her we never knew existed. This feeling compares to nothing I have ever felt before. If She is capable of this one moment in time does that mean She can inspire us to live more freely? to explore more curiously? to love eachother more unconditionally?

Love Deeply and Forever,

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