SOFTNESS

Yesterday, when I was preparing the house for a visitor, I tripped over the vacuum cleaner's long metal tube  As I was falling, like a snap shot taken mid-air, a short moment happened , and  after I landed my hands knew to rub my knee over and over again, and that knee was no longer an issue after that, even though it was what had hurt the most at first. Later, in the middle of the night it was the pain in the big toe on my left foot that woke me, and without hesitating I applied aloe vera gel to it, massaging it in  until it was absorbed., and there was no more pain there.

In the morning as I rose from my bed I could only limp in jerks; stories arose, diagnoses arose. the possibility of turning back the visitor arose as there was still much to do to prepare the house  arose.  Right then, from an audio playing on the computer, I heard one phrase that stood out , "Rest with whatever arises."  Seeing the wisdom, I just rested with the situation as it was.  relaxing past victim-hood, walking to the stove my limp softened to almost no limp at all, it became so soft. Without pressure, I had come upon softness.  Having no idea what could be gotten done I softly moved to do the next thing.

Softness cradles so much, much  more than just body sensations.  As softness ,I walked down the street to welcome my visitor on the way up.