P- Pray about everything. The joys, the sorrows. For the people you love, know, and those you don’t recognize. Pray for areas of growth and the times you shrivel.

L-Listen with expectation that the answer, the clarity over confusion, the comfort, the confirmation is on the way.

A- Act. Move your body, your mind, the needle forward in your life. Even if silence was the answer, do the next right thing. The thing that makes the flickering inside your wild heart grow brighter.

N- Nourish others and yourself through acts of kindness, words of encouragement and show grace in someone’s struggle including your own.

T- Teach. When you find that leaning toward the Light made your roots stronger, made you stand a little taller, gave you a strength to withstand more than you ever thought you could. Reach back to another plant standing in the shadow of doubts that minds cast and tell them about The Lean.

S- Surrender to the journey your life takes. There are cloudy days, rainy days, oversaturation, and drought. There are and will be weeds that try to smother you, to change you. There will be times, you feel burned by all the light you have received and retreat to the shadows. You’ll find yourself searching again for relief, for answers, for nourishment, and one day possibly even in the crisp air of winter you’ll feel a warmth you can’t explain reminding you that PLANTS need light and you will surrender to grace as you lean towards THE LIGHT.