This happened this morning…
At first I was upset, but then I gathered the plants and put
them in a larger flower pot. I “saved” them from dying. I saw the beauty in the desperation, the strength in the weakness and the opportunity in the accident.
I could not help but stop and ruminate on the power of this
metaphor. Many people have heard that broken things are sometimes more
beautiful than the original thing, whatever that “thing” is. It could be a
difficult situation or a time when you felt broken and so "beaten up" that you want to give up. A person dies that you were
close to, you received a diagnosis for something that you did not want to deal
with, someone treated you badly with no remorse, having a period of time when
you were frustrated at the world, etc.
Whatever that situation is, there is always hope. When the
flower pot slipped out of my hands, I was frustrated. But I saved the plants
and I also saved the broken pieces of the flower pot for an art project I want to make.
Even in our roughest moments or moments in which we want to
give up, there are even more beautiful moments in store for us as we keep
moving forward and fighting through our worst fears. It is in moving forward that we
allow good to come into our lives at the times when we most need it.
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