On Blossoms & Begging for Enough...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 8:28 AM 
by Kayce Stevens Hughlett
As we move toward springtime in the Pacific Northwest and enter the liturgical season of Lent, I’ve been pondering how the themes of blossoming and transformation weave together with enough and scarcity. I found it incredibly amusing that as I began to write this piece my stereo was playing Mary Poppins’ “A Spoonful of Sugar.” Perhaps that’s what it takes to enter this season and blossom… to say that we are enough or have enough. A spoonful of sugar. A tiny spoonful - enough to brighten an ordinary day. Just like a single rose can fill a cloudy sky.
If we believe that we never have enough time, money, beauty, talent, or fill-in-the-blank then we will find ourselves always running behind, gasping for breath, and trying to achieve something that’s never going to be there.
What if for this single moment we accepted that we have what we have? Period. Could that be enough? Could where you are today, right now, this time and space be your spoonful of sweetness? Can your simple presence and awareness turn an ordinary existence into something extraordinary?
Pause and ponder this for a moment. (Another blogpost on this topic lives here.)
My calendar year started with the theme of enough when my husband and I were gifted a vessel that’s part of the Patra Passage. Our Patra has become a powerful reminder of what is enough. (Learn more here). Shortly after receiving this beautiful gift, I was tossed into a maelstrom of lack and scarcity while multiple things in life surged out of my control. The extremes were palpable. On one side lay peace (enough). On the other, chaos.
In the midst lies the truth that I have everything I need. Things are as they are. I can choose to be content or disengage and spend my days swathed in, “Poor me.” It is my choice. I have what I have and as Byron Katie says, “You can’t argue with reality.”
The monks who carried empty bowls as they sought alms believed that whatever was in the cup for the day was enough. They offer us a beautiful practice of humility and being in the present moment. We can grow at our own rate and blossom where we’re planted. We have and are enough. When we take things moment by moment, it’s really that simple.
What gets in the way of your growth? What might you clear away to make room for springtime’s new blossoms? How can you declare today “enough”?
Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
We have refused
Again and again
Until now.
Until now.
~ by David Whyte
Lent, Transformation
Reader Comments (5)
This is a beautiful post and I'm off to click on the links now......I've been meaning to ask you about "the" bowls again and here they are:). Xxoxo
xoxo to you Dianna!!
Kayce, sorry to bother you but I am worried about Tess, her Pilgrim's Moon went silent some time ago and w/o explanation and she has not appeared in any of her haunts as far as I can see. I wrote to her via her contact on her blog but no reply? Do you know, is she okay?
P.S. Kayce, I see Tess is okay, thanks! Your blog here is gorgeous too, congrats!
Nice to hear from you, Sarah (even though you were looking for Tess). I sent her a note and am glad you two reconnected!! Stop by and say 'hi' here anytime!!!