Heart Strings

This life is a challenge, isn't it?

From early on until the day we leave, we will carry whatever it is that this world decides is our burden, our personal backpack whether nearly empty, half-full or completely overflowing. There are people who seem like their burden is far heavier than most but it is impossible to compare. We each have our own experience, our own truths, and our feelings within that truth which are completely valid and important and ours alone.

Realizing all that, is important for me to remember that there is also tremendous beauty. My goal is to see the glorious within the challenges that are mine to carry. Most of the time I am able to achieve that. On occasion my head gets turned. My sight becomes blurry. The burden gets too heavy. I lose sight.

Today, I hold those times closely to my heart. I wait, staying still and quiet (or get angry and cussing) until I can better express what it is I really feel. Sometimes I need to share it with someone else, someone who can hear me but also know what the end goal is. Other times it is just me, and the loving parent that lives inside my heart, who hears my fears or disappointments. That parent comforts me through and tells me it is ok to feel.

I’ve been away from my blog for a while. I’ve been unable to be authentically me because my vision has been a bit blurred.

I’m back. The views are clearer than ever, the beauty all around.

I think I want a cat.