Vermont brook, rippling and tumbling over stones

 I remember reading once that if you really tune into nature, you can hear a song of joy that runs throughout creation. It's the harmony of love, really.
  As my Akashic teacher, Linda Howe, says, love is always available everywhere. It's just that we humans block the flow of love with our fear-based, negative judgments.
  Every time we say to ourselves, "My life shouldn't be this way," we are creating just that kind of blockage or wall of resistance.
  If we could just accept and allow things, including ourselves and our lives, to just be without judgment, then we could let love flow in and through us.
  Can we, in spite of our failings and the perceived failings of others and the woundedness and difficulties of our lives, still honor ourselves and deeply accept and value ourselves?
   Can we forgive ourselves and others and fulfill the purpose of our journey on Earth, which is to learn to love--both ourselves and others--unconditionally, no matter what?
  In other words, can we join in the song of creation?

Hemlocks along a mountain trail in Vermont