When the Bough Breaks:
It just transforms into something else in the blink of an eye.
They say everything happens for a reason, but honestly, I am
still
pondering some of the moves and working to just trust that
they are and have, happened for reasons that just have not become clear to me
yet.How does something that feels so completely right in a moment, turn into something that you feel you need to escape in the next? How do friendships that have been built on trust and honesty dissolve into nothingness because of that same trust and honesty?
Why do children die? Why do horrible things happen to good
people? Why do heartless people get to keep existing and inflicting pain on the
world?
Do you have the answers, because I sure don’t.What I do know is that no matter what happens and how badly we want to stop moving, breathing, and managing; we cannot stop, we have to keep moving, even if it’s just one small step, one short breath or one simple heartbeat. The universe continues to flow around us, birds still sing even on the mornings that we wake up with broken hearts and puffy eyes from all the crying we did the night before. The boss still expects you to be on time for work, and dinner still needs to be cooked. Life goes on; whether you’re participating or not.
As we journey through Life, we lose lovers, friends, and
pets and so much more; so much more like pride and arrogance, selfishness and
greed; or at least that is the hope. Time is supposed to bring with it wisdom
and humility. Maybe we lose things and people we are attached to so that we can
learn that nothing is permanent here, nothing and no one is forever, but merely
experiences that we navigate through to learn the things we need to learn?
What doesn’t kill us
makes us stronger, right? What if it
just makes us colder? What if it makes us hateful for what someone else has
that we don’t? What separates that person, from a person who just accepts each
life altering moment and pushes forward?
My thought? FAITH.
Faith is not strengthened in moments that we already know
what’s coming, Faith is conceived in those moments when the staircase is dark
and we can only see the step we are on. We move slowly up the stairs, not
knowing what awaits us on the next one, but we step anyway.
When we stop expecting that Life will always play fair, we begin
to get somewhere; we accept, through tears and heavy hearts that friends grow apart,
lovers fall out of love, and people die. We don’t accept it because it makes a damn
bit of sense, we accept it because we have come far enough to understand that now
and then things just don’t make sense at first glance, and they do not always feel
good, but we inhale, we exhale, and we have FAITH that the Universe has a plan and
that in each challenge we face there is a gift to uncover to elevate us to the next
level of our journey here.
STAY FAITHFUL- We are all in this together.
~Peace
