There are seasons in life when something within us begins to shift.
You sense that the way you’ve always moved through life no longer feels like the fullest expression of who you are. At the same time, another way of living calls to you. You can feel it. You can almost recognize it. Yet it hasn’t fully taken shape.
Have you ever found yourself in that space?
Where one part of you knows there is more, while another part reaches for what has always felt familiar?
Spirit showed me an image years ago that has stayed with me ever since.
Imagine standing on a floating buoy.
It has carried you this far. You’ve learned how it moves. You know how to keep your balance. Even when the water becomes choppy, there is a relationship with it. It is familiar.
Then another buoy appears nearby.
It isn’t anchored. It moves with the same water, the same current, the same wind. You can see it. You can sense that it is the next place your life is inviting you. Yet you don’t know how it will feel beneath your feet until you step onto it.
What if this is what change often looks like?
We spend so much time searching for certainty before we move. We want to know how everything will unfold. We want reassurance that every step will feel steady.
Life seems to offer something different.
It offers the next step.
The beautiful part is that each step teaches us something the previous one never could.
Perhaps this is why so many people describe change as a leap of faith.
Yet Spirit has always shown me something different.
There is no cliff.
There is no jump.
There is only the next step.
Sometimes that step lands on firm ground.
Sometimes it lands in unexpected support.
Sometimes it opens a path that only becomes visible because you were willing to move.
What if faith has always lived there?
Not in knowing every outcome.
Not in having every answer.
In allowing yourself to discover what meets you as you move.
As I reflect on this, I wonder if many of us are trying to live from a deeper awareness while still relying on the way we’ve always learned to navigate life. It feels a bit like trying to place a new operating system inside an old computer. The deeper knowing is already present. Our way of relating to life is what gradually evolves.
What would it feel like to trust the wisdom that has already begun stirring within you?
What if your next step doesn’t ask for certainty?
What if it simply asks for your presence?
And what if the buoy you’ve been standing on has already prepared you for the one waiting beside it?
I’d love to hear your reflection and what comes up for you as you read this.
With love and blessings,
Susan