The Rising

Has this year - or month - been a difficult one & you’re struggling to feel hope in a day like today?

THE DYING

Sometimes the worst can happen. And it doesn’t seem fair or make sense.

But it happens.

All you dreamed of, the life you imagined, is gone. There is death. Darkness. And you feel alone.

THE WAITING

Then comes the waiting.

In the waiting, the dark is everywhere, and you fear it will never be light again.

It’s sad. Agonizing. Groundless.

All you can do is sit, and feel and be. If you’re lucky, you might sense that one day there will be light.

But for now, you are surrounded by dark, and no one can take that away.

This middle - this dark - is essential, though. It’s a time to grieve. To mourn. To face it all, to feel it all. To be alone with the dark. To even become intimate with it. It cannot be rushed or skipped or ignored.

There may be people outside waiting for you to rise, calling for you, hoping you’ll come out of the dark. But in here, alone, only you can face it. No one can do this work for you.

—> Here you will also find you’re not alone, that there is Strength inside that you have not yet known.

—> Here you will find you need no human outside of you to pull you from the dark.

—> Here you will find your true self. Your true Strength.

Something profound happens in the waiting.

Our sitting with the darkness begins to transform us. Prepare us for new life.

There is magic in this waiting, because if you allow yourself to sit with it, it leads to beauty.

THE RISING

In the rising, the dark dissipates, the stone is rolled away, and you come forth. Your wounds are visible, yes, but you have a new radiance.

Those who loved you, who witnessed your death, who mourned in the waiting, they will be there, too, in the rising.

Yes, eventually you WILL rise, and you WILL be different, more radiant.

The idea that you don’t need to experience dark because there’s resurrection — it’s false.

The truth is - you need to experience the dark IN ORDER for there to be resurrection.

None of us gets a pass. The worst can happen.
And yet ....
And yet there will be life again.

✨❤️