This is my faith, I'm never alone, This is my life, as I turn every stone...
© 2012 kathleensabo/voiceandverse
I just had an opportunity to comment upon a beautiful blog entry a friend had written. I want to share what I wrote, because even though the circumstances you find yourself in may be different, my message to you is the same:
"...you describe these days so beautifully for so many of us, I think... so, so rich...yet with fracturing all around, inside and out...and we see how we are richer for the fracturing...a time to choose how and who we are to be in the world, in these moments...we take responsibility...our choices - or, the choices we didn't make! :-) - brought us to this point.
What causes the fracture? I'll choose expansion, for that is where I wish to land, the story I wish to tell of my life: remember that time when we were expanding so much that everything in our lives fractured, and we remembered to breathe, and to let so much love in - the love that is always here! (or THERE, if "there" you must go) - and we were gifted in discovering what is most important to us...the seven authentic, laughter/tear/story/truth (NOT "truthiness")-filled hours spent reconnecting around a kitchen table with a dear friend...the hours spent with a child, climbing toward, jumping into and floating down a river...the moments of gratitude for the awareness of nature that is so poignant that it brings tears...finding the word, the color, the chord that is so right that our hearts swell.
Naive? I don't know yet. What I do know is that more than a few in my circle, whom I hold dear, have been, are in, or are about to be in the exact same position you are in - foreclosure. What I've observed, no matter the result, is that the framing is everything...the story of our life - OUR story, OUR life, no one else's! - the TRUTH of our life, the richness, amidst the fracturing expansion, is a beautiful foundation for whatever is next. Your life is incredible... here comes the next chapter!"