Sand Endures

Sand Endures
Millions of shell, rock and creatures
Crushed relentlessly over millenniums
Particles of the past and present mingle
Ridges and dips, texture and patterns, life and death
Sand’s cemetery nourishes
Houses life
Marks time like a metronome
Leaves evidence of those before
Resiliency always wins and beauty remains.

There is much to learn from sand for our own mental health resiliency. The struggle is daily and relentless, but we can learn longevity survives best when going with the flow. Resisting the flow only hurts ourselves and muddies the waters. Tuck and roll, dip and dive, meet the surge with grace, which is how sand teaches us to persevere.

Sand teaches us beauty comes in many forms. All live side by side and accentuate the unique characteristics of their differences with splendor. We can learn much from this in our own lives. Sand moves seamlessly to join outcasts and transforms variations into a single fabric of life living cooperatively in the rules of survival.

Sand teaches us about life and death.  It caresses the remains of struggle to provide a fertile landscape for life to dwell. Slowly and surely life and death mesh into the grains of sand to become a seamless weaving of existence. Firm, soft, rippled, fine, coarse, smooth all fit together as a beautiful mosaic to be seen by us as a living textbook of lessons to be learned.

Life’s lessons abound in nature only needing to be recognized in our own reflection and lives. Take a moment to consider how you fit into its embrace.
 
What do you learn from sand?