I connect with your words so much and even more so with the picture that accompanies it. I have loved photographing the bare trees with the blue sky behind. It has felt like even in the transition of change there is always something on the other side beautiful and we can see it in the darkness of this season.
Hi Cory, thank you so much for your profound thoughts. There is something ethereal about sky and trees, isn't there? Regardless of seasons or of change. The beauty is in the stark contrast, the emptiness sometimes. I am grateful you are here sharing this space with me.
Jeannie your heartfelt message and frustration, confusion and clarity come through in such a powerful way in this post with the hard-hitting (in the BEST possible way) reminder that both things can co-exist. Thank you for this. Also, I love the reminder that grace lives between our hope and our fear!
I semi-joke that I love to reside in the land of the fairies and unicorns because I don't like to look at the hard stuff. A few years ago I made a conscious vow to no longer turn away from those things that are happening in the world that shatter my heart in pieces. I will face them head on as I go inward at the same time.
Donna, that's such a beautiful insight and courageous commitment you made! I do know how painful it can be to sit with the struggles and sufferings - ours and others' - but it really is true that when we learn to do that, everything in our life awakens. We feel the joy more fully. We enter into the love more present.
I have often said, since Sarah's birth, that all of life is bittersweet.
Such a beautiful and hopeful message "there's always light peeking through the dismal nights of our souls". It's been a rough two weeks but that line helps put it in perspective.
I connect with your words so much and even more so with the picture that accompanies it. I have loved photographing the bare trees with the blue sky behind. It has felt like even in the transition of change there is always something on the other side beautiful and we can see it in the darkness of this season.
Hi Cory, thank you so much for your profound thoughts. There is something ethereal about sky and trees, isn't there? Regardless of seasons or of change. The beauty is in the stark contrast, the emptiness sometimes. I am grateful you are here sharing this space with me.
Jeannie your heartfelt message and frustration, confusion and clarity come through in such a powerful way in this post with the hard-hitting (in the BEST possible way) reminder that both things can co-exist. Thank you for this. Also, I love the reminder that grace lives between our hope and our fear!
I semi-joke that I love to reside in the land of the fairies and unicorns because I don't like to look at the hard stuff. A few years ago I made a conscious vow to no longer turn away from those things that are happening in the world that shatter my heart in pieces. I will face them head on as I go inward at the same time.
Donna, that's such a beautiful insight and courageous commitment you made! I do know how painful it can be to sit with the struggles and sufferings - ours and others' - but it really is true that when we learn to do that, everything in our life awakens. We feel the joy more fully. We enter into the love more present.
I have often said, since Sarah's birth, that all of life is bittersweet.
Such a beautiful and hopeful message "there's always light peeking through the dismal nights of our souls". It's been a rough two weeks but that line helps put it in perspective.
I'm grateful you felt encouraged by this, Doreen, and I'm sorry to hear you've had a tough couple of weeks. I'm sending you my love today. 💓
Thank you so much Jeannie!