You Need Sanctuary-Being in Nature

You Need Sanctuary-Being in Nature

This is my happy place. Not only being in nature, surrounded by trees and running water but being who I am. Each time I hike I am reminded of this. A coming back of self.

Often, we become inundated with what everyone else is saying and doing that we lose ourselves. We silence our voices. We silence or push down who we are.

When I hear the movement of the water, I say to myself, "The water is being water." When I hear the swaying of the trees I say, "The trees are being trees." Everything around me is giving what it is from consistently being what it was made to be.

In a time of long ago, when people were troubled, they would go to churches and claim, "Sanctuary." This meant no one could come after them. And they were allowed time to rest or just be. Though they would be in a physical place it was more of them proclaiming to be in a spiritual, mental, and emotional space to be free.

We all need this in our lives. We desire permission to be who we truly are. We desire to consistently be of the brilliant design the Creator wants us to be. Where we do not have to always seek escape. We can live in "Sanctuary!"

~Peace and blessings,

NSS

P.S. I am immersed in the beauty of River Place Nature Trail in Austin, Texas