A few weeks back the minister at the Unity Center challenged us to "release our inner spider." She talked about how they just jump, always knowing that the result will be that everything will be okay, and that the end result will be a web.
The past few mornings as I practice walking around my backyard with unsure, slow, careful, baby steps, I have noticed so many spider's web strings that reach horizontally for an impossible distance. How can such a small thing make it two feet away, and reach the desired height to begin their webs? While drinking my morning coffee I watched a video about how spiders spin their webs. It isn't just blind faith that they count on. They must also, for that first strand, which is to become the footing of the web, ride the breeze. This gift of nature carts their weightlessness across the expanse of the space which is to become their canvas.
Now this riding made me think of the Wu Wei which is the effortless force of living, which allows us to do without doing. Life cannot be manipulated or directed, we must ride the winds that are set before us. Of course once we are moved, it is up to us to spin the web, put in the work, and be driven with determination. The end result is something wonderful for the whole wide world to see.
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