Acorn Pondering

How does an acorn that lands in the middle of peonies know it is to become an oak tree instead of a peony?

I wish I could hear your answer to that question. I dream of a day when all 2,400 of you could sit with me in a coffee shop and have these conversations for hours! 

Until then….

I found myself walking around my yard on Sunday pondering this very concept. I was checking on my peonies (flowers, if the word peony isn’t familiar), which are blooming early this year. They are my favorite because they start as tight balls and expand every day - metaphor for what I’m trying to do in my own life…expand out of a tight ball of stress into something beautiful. 

I noticed that there was an acorn on the ground between the plants. I picked it up and it was the most perfect creation. It looked unreal - a perfect shape, with a dapper hat on top. 

I moved it back into the woods and gave it a wish to become a great oak (I know that sounds weird, but it felt like the right thing to do - I should have known this weird nudge would lead me to an existential crisis!) 

As I left the woods, I thought about my own potential, but also my tendency to want to be what I see on social media - to look like, have, and be what someone else is. 

That acorn knows exactly what it is supposed to become.

It has a blueprint inside with all of the inner guides needed to become an oak tree. So why can’t I trust that I have that inside me too?

Do you know what you are meant to become? (Not in terms of a vocation, more a sense of being.)

What do you think is hard-wired in you?

What blueprint do you have inside?

What do your inner guides have to say about your potential?

In a sea of peonies, do you know you are an amazing oak tree?

Give it some thought this week. Being human is hard, but you already have great wisdom within. 

Let’s trust it,