It’s funny how time changes things. Our understanding of life. Our appreciation of things. I’m always surprised at how life humbles me and elevates my spirit and how the passage of time impacts that. As I’m sitting in a hotel in Arizona, marveling at the gifts that the Creator has conferred upon me, I’m constantly hoping I’ve earned it and that I make a difference. I’d like to think I have and still do, but there are days when I wonder if I’ve done the best I can.
Over the past few days, several points in the dot to dots that have connected to make the picture of my life appeared and showed me how the path of my life was perfectly designed. An old friend who gave me the strength to be my authentic self. My sisters-in-laws from another life. If only we could recognize the perfection and the timing of all that defines and forges our being as we journey through our lives. Even now as I navigate through the missteps and detours, I try to push the river upstream instead of trusting that it is all as it should and must be.
So here’s to an old friend whose craziness brought me sanity and clarity. Here’s to sister in laws that had every reason to sever ties and leave me in the past yet chose to hold me in a space without judgement. Here’s to a kind and a generous man whose heart may have stopped but his light and kindness will continue to live on.
Here’s to those rare moments of spiritual awakening that allow for connecting some of the dots with peace and serenity. Here’s hoping that, if the Me that I’ve become ever meets the Me I was born to be, we find we are the same. Or at least I come close.
Peace, Love and Dot to Dots.
Kim Hunt/Stroke Struck, Getting Unstuck 