Yesterday my husband and I took a trip down memory lane. We went back to the place where we came 15 years ago when we fell in love with Sedona - The Enchantment. Enchanting us once again.
This time we did not go as a couple but as a family.
Taking our two children with us so they could share in our nostalgia. Showing them the place where we decided there was more to life than the life we were living at the time. The place where we were awakened to the all. Allowing us to make major decisions in our lives setting the stage for them to come into our lives. Neither one of us could have anticipated the magnitude of the feelings we experienced going back to where we made those major decisions all those years before.
The drive to The Enchantment was very different to the drive we took 15 years ago. Landmarks had changed. The town had expanded and there were more people and cars than when we were originally here. There were certain landmarks that had remained the same - The Heartline Cafe to be specific but was now surrounded by so much more stuff.
As we turned into Boynton Canyon, the mesas coming into full view, the memories of where we had been before came flooding back to the forefront. The scenery seemingly calling our names. Welcoming us back home to our first major awakening. I knew we were close to the entrance because I felt that familiar feeling of being on sacred ground - the golf course was built on a native American burial ground and I could feel the presence as I did 15 years ago of the wise ones who had been buried there. Sending out peace and blessings to the ancestors who helped pave the way for the rest of us as we crossed the line.
We parked in the parking lot and decided to walk around the resort. Going through the romantic arch of vines and fairy lights almost as if we were walking into fairy tale. Stepping out of reality and into that make believe world of yesteryear. Crossing over into Enchanted land where dreams come true. Fairies roam. A place where possibility abounds. Enrapturing us. Enlightening us. Our children marvelling at the way their parents used to travel.
We then decided to have a look at the restaurant where we spent our first night all those years before looking romantically into each other's eyes. The restaurant's name had changed but the location was still the same. The memories still remained the same. Of where we sat. Talking about the future. Deciding to become parents. As we stood on the threshold of the restaurant, time felt like it stood still. Like we were here the day before. But as I looked at our 14 year old son, as tall as I am, voice cracking and our 9 year old,blossoming before our eyes, I saw through them just how much time had really passed by.
Blinking I could see my husband and I as that couple with stars in our eyes about where we were going and what was coming next. Only to blink again, seeing us expanded as a family. The four of us. The dynamics completely changed but better. Some 15 years later.
Seeing just how much we can't take time for granted. That even if we decide to stand still and wait for life, it will not wait for us. It just keeps moving. Seeing through our children's growth that time waits for no one and we have to take advantage of every single second we have. Just like that 15 years gone by. There is nothing like seeing time than through the growth of children.
We felt so comfortable at the Enchantment that we decided to stay. It was like coming home. We decided on lunch at the more casual Tii Gavo Restaurant with panoramic views of the Boynton Canyon. Birds of prey flying between the rocks. Our children finding a chess table. Settling down to a game of chess while my husband and I stood outside talking about life, looking at the Canyon. Hugging each other. Still with stars in our eyes. Still talking about our future. Against the staggeringly breathtaking Boynton Canyon.
And then we were shown to our table with views that were astounding beyond belief. A perfect setting to watch the natural light show on the Canyon. Every second the light on the rocks changing showing us different images. Different shadows. Different meanings.
A large Native American image coming out of the rocks facing us, looking like he was seated guarding his Native home. To his extreme left, an image of a totem pole at the end of the Canyon. And in between them, faces of more ancestors looking out over the Canyon. Casting a spell over the Canyon. Mystical, mysterious and magical.
Even better than this beautiful experience was the fact that the day had been dull. The sun light seemingly obscured by the clouds. Yet the rocks were lit up constantly. Every time we looked at the rocks, they had light on them. And the light seemed to dance from one mesa to the next. Giving each section the spotlight for a time. Allowing each one it's time to shine. Giving each one the glow it needed to stand out in its time.
The whole experience so mesmerising, we didn't even attempt to photograph it. We knew there is nothing that could recreate the images we were seeing. Each image personal to each one of us. Revealing only what we were capable of seeing and believing. Only what resonated with our souls.
Making me realise, we are shown whatever we are capable of seeing. What we are meant to see. The light is constantly there even on our darkest days. Sometimes it's just not for us to see. It's for those that need it most. Those whose turn it is to shine as the light shone on different parts of the rocks. Lighting each one at a time as it does for each one of us. When the time is right. Only when the time is right.
And then to top of our magical day, last night my husband and I toasted each other for all that we have been through. My husband telling me he thoroughly enjoyed our vow renewal in Kauai because it was actually pleasurable to do. Both of us marvelling at the water that has travelled under the bridge for us since we were last here 15 years before. Marvelling at the love we share, the family we have created, the journey we are sharing. Embraced by the light always as long as we believe as the lights in Boynton Canyon at The Enchantment showed us in a very big way.
In gratitude to the Universe for us, for our abundance, for the choices we make every day. For the Enchantment in Sedona enchanting us once again some 15 years later, a couple now a family of four. Growing. Journeying. And ever grateful. Namaste.
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