This next step for you is about calm. It is about peace. It is about patiently waiting. It is about surrender.

It is about trust—that the right opportunities will come to you, that they will be presented to you for the taking, that you couldn’t mess it up, that waiting and observing, and then acting fully when the timing is right, is perfect and all you need to do.

This patient waiting is an observation that the universe ebbs and flows, that it is cyclical, that it functions perfectly as it should—together, in unison and harmony—sometimes coming and going, giving, taking, waiting and acting.

You don’t always need to spin your wheels or churn to make action. Sometimes action is receiving. Action is allowing. It may look like inaction, but you are quite actively, vigilantly observing for the right moment.

Take this as practice. Smile and make it fun. It’s supposed to be. This life here is a blessing. And each day, and moment, and year you spend here in practice is a great orchestration. It’s a utilization of a lot of natural resources.

All come here for very specific intent. So see it as that. See the grand orchestration. Sit back and look. If you don’t spot it right away, it’s not because it’s not there. It’s because you haven’t noticed it. That means give yourself the time and the patience to gain perspective.

Insight and clarity come when you observe it, when you give yourself the right vantage point. If you want to get a lay of the landscape, you go to a high point so that you can see everything. You don’t actively walk out and observe each point.

So, from this example, going to high ground and waiting looks like inaction. It’s patience. But in fact, you’re getting to a place where you can observe more clearly—a vantage point where clarity comes. It’s not by going and investigating each outcome.

So sometimes just putting yourself in a smart position to wait, and watch, and observe will bring you clarity and insight. This is what your friend, the hawk, does—always keenly watching. Most of the time you see the hawk, it’s not in flight. It’s on its post or its wire wire—sitting, waiting, observing for the right time to take action, to expend its energy, to go forward, to get what it needs.

Take these lessons and apply them. Take the lessons from the dolphins you saw over the weekend—their natural play, their family perspective, their purposeful movement through the water—not in a rush, just enjoying themselves, laughing, communicating, swimming and dancing, finding joy in the moment and the place they are before they move on to the next.

The dolphin doesn’t move because he has to. He moves because he is in joy. He’s found all the joy in that moment and place, and then he moves on for the next. He doesn’t look around him and find no joy, and continuously wander around looking for it, always in a state of lack. He’s in a state of excess, in abundance.

You can study that and note how to perform that balance in your own life. The natural world is always giving us gifts—displays on the outside of the inner harmony and balance that we find on the inside. The more balance we find on the inside, the more we see it on the outside in its cyclical nature. They are a gift to us and we are a gift to them, co-creating each other into existence through love and harmony.

Go take these lessons and apply. Sit and wait for the right time to act. Find your vantage point. Patiently observe until clarity and insight tells you it’s time to move. That’s all for now. Amen.