Cycle of Life

I've been thinking a lot about the cycles of life this past week. Death and birth. Quiet and activity. Expansion and contraction.

Life is so crazy. One minute, we are not here. The next, we take our first breath, and before we know it, we are moving through this vast, unpredictable journey. So much joy and sunshine, so much pain and resistance. We love, we grieve, we learn, we shed skins, and somehow, we keep going.

And then life ends.

And another life begins. The cycle continues, as it always has, as it always will.

Maybe that’s the most humbling and miraculous thing of all—that life doesn’t ask for permission. It simply moves forward, carrying us in its current whether we are ready or not. And yet, within all of this movement, we have an opportunity to pause, to witness, to truly see each other.

Maybe that’s what makes it all worth it.

I am currently settling into this opportunity in a quiet and self-focused phase. Though it may appear on social media etc. and externally that I am doing the opposite 🙂 just goes to show you what social media thinks it knows, LOL.

I invite you to take the opportunity also and find a moment to go inward yourself. To soften. To breathe. To give gratitude—for your babies, for your parents, for the life flowing through you right now.

I’d like to share this beautiful song with you. Let it be a soundtrack for your reflection, if you’d like.

We Are – Sweet Honey in the Rock

We are our grandmothers’ prayers

And we are our grandfathers’ dreamings

We are the breath of the ancestors

We are the spirit of God

We are mothers of courage

Fathers of time

Daughters of dust

And the sons of great visions

We are sisters of mercy

Brothers of love

Lovers of life

And the builders of nations

We are seekers of truth, keepers of faith,

Makers of peace, and the wisdom of ages.

Listen here: We Are – Sweet Honey in the Rock

https://open.spotify.com/track/5HAROBJ3m7yyRajMUrAMnh?si=npKwpUSuSJa5ps7B99jECg

This song speaks to the deep, unbroken lineage of life—the way we are all connected through birth and death, through the wisdom of those who came before us. As we reflect on these cycles—the beginnings, the endings, the quiet moments, and the storms—this song guides us to remembrance and presence—a moment to honor those who walked before us, and embrace the life moving through us now.

With love,

Geneva