Friday Flow 1/22/21

We must somehow learn to fall in love with the parts of us we keep hidden inside; otherwise, they will never leave us.

It’s 4:43 am, and I find myself writing to connect the current in my body from another dream that woke me up.

Hafez said, “There is a beautiful creature living in a hole you have dug.”

His powerful words remind me that we must somehow learn to fall in love with the parts of us we keep hidden inside; otherwise, they will never leave us.

To become one with the parts of ourselves we do not like is to encourage our demons. But because we were not taught to tend to these parts that we do not like, we often lose sight of who we are. And in the process, we whiter away like a flower consumed by dark clouds on days with no rain.

I have realized that what we are most often in need of is a touch of sunlight here, some water there, and our ability to trust ourselves in these times of change. We all have these parts of darkness inside of us, but they need to be cared for too.

So I have been learning how to tend to these majestic creatures inside of me, and it’s not easy because I must befriend what I am most afraid of-love.

Somedays, it looks like surrender and feels like letting go. Other days it feels like resistance as I discover how to simply be…