Slipping my morning lemon slice into the compost bin, I spy what’s grown overnight – vibrant green mold on a piece of old bread – and it brings my thoughts to what grows in the dark.
I think of how healthy plants and people need light to thrive, and how secrets hiding in the shadows of a relationship can grow moldy, mucking up a healthy marriage.
My past reveals the truth of this.
Blessings on my ex, and what happened in our marriage when honest living wasn’t brought into the light for conversation, until it was many years later, after lots of damage had been done.
When darkness burst into the light, what a splash it made!
Crushed my sense of who we were, and what our marriage had been, but at least the truth had been told, so we could move on to live into the light of healthier lives apart after the inevitable journey through pain and grief.
And have we ever.
He’s doing great, and I’m glad; his healing is important to me.
As for me, some days I can’t hide my overflowing joy; I’m thriving in relationship with a beautiful soul, I’ve healed this far into an authentic version of my given name of Joy, and I’m grateful I can scatter bits of joy across the land.
Amazing what a little mold in a compost bin can bring up.
What in your life is tucked away in the dark? Is it time to bring it into the light? Could paying attention to something unsightly be the very thing to free you to new life? To new joy?
Do you sometimes feel bogged down with life?
Could you use a reminder that your deepest longing is to heal into the soulful person you are created to be?
Would you like to evolve into a version of yourself filled with peace and joy?
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Life is short...belonging to our unique lives deeply matters.
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Thank you.