"Joy that sits beside our sorrow and doesn't walk away."
This is the line that touched my heart and drew me in.
". . .not to erase grief, or answer every question,
but to hold us season after season."
When grief and sorrow take hold of me,
my strongest inclination is to put as much distance
between us as possible. To shout NO, NO, NO!
Now I'm asking myself what if I turned toward them?
What if instead of running away, I entered into their space and
spent some time in their painful presence?
I can hear the inner voices chiding me for "being negative".
I think I'll ignore them the next time they show up
and see what happens. It's not negative to be human...fully human.
I realize there are many who are intimately familiar
with their painful, excruciating presence and have no choice
but to show up and live what is happening.
I bend my knee to you and what you're going through.
Thank you for being here.
May joy find you, always.
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