The good things. The bad things too, I suppose. But the good things, the good people, the good tidings, the blessings, the people who you love with a ferocity of joy. The light bringers. The people who lift you up. Cats and kittens, puppies and dogs. Horses. They will all come.
The cooler air and the fall weather will come.
Everything good will come.
So it is ok to wait for the love you want instead of taking whatever paltry engagements are offered. If you are tired of low hanging fruit, stop swinging for it.
You have time to heal what hurts...so you don’t continue to hurt yourself or anyone else. There is time to do the work, to change yourself for the better. To heal that which, at times, feels unhealable.
It is ok to forgive yourself for all the times you failed to live up to the you you wanted to be, the you you needed to be. For all the times you failed to realize that the other person you were leaning on, the other person you needed them to be, was just not possible. And the vacuous disappointment you feel about that is ok. There is room inside you for this kind of disappointment. I know it doesn’t feel like it but there is. And yes, there is still room for other things.
Intimacy is still possible. Even though it makes you uncomfortable. Even though it feels really hard. Even though it hurts and terrifies you. Intimacy is really a way of being alive. And you can choose to go ever deeper when you are ready.
The world will surprise you with its timing, if you let it. And even if you don’t the world will still surprise you with its timing.
Connection is always available and you can allow your desire for connection to be greater than your fear. The past hurts do not have to hold center stage on your life. They can be eased, ameliorated, diffused.
Let go of all the very many things that are not asking to be held. You know the ones. You do. Release. It is ok, good things will come. Perhaps better things than the things you decide to hold down in a panic.
Live a life that you want to wake up in every day. Pay attention to those things that bring you back to you. The things that make you feel more like you and less like everyone else. Pay attention to the things that bring you tenderness, awe, inspiration and joy. These are your vehicles for becoming.
Slow down. This is the hardest one for me. To just do one thing at a time and endeavor to do it well. Be present in the slow down. There is no place you must get to, it will come too. Whatever you are waiting for is also waiting for you and will arrive in time. It may not look like what you thought you wanted, but all things will come to you, and sometimes all those things you wished to have are things that you come to wish you didn’t. Remember that.
Live softly. Love softly but do both with a ferocity of intention. Do not half ass it. Go all the way in and sit all the way down. Be here, living this life, wake up every day excited about how you don’t know how it will unfold and trust, trust that life holds you as gently as you hold it.
Beautiful people, places and things will come and they will go. Always. And in those dark moments where you are sure there will never be light again, believe that there will be anyway. In the face of doubt and insecurity be brave, be bold, be amazing.
Everything will come in its own time. The good things, they will come, always, if we create opportunities and space for their arrival. Be the vessel that is full with space for more. Walk that delicate line between living and dying as lightly as you can.
Trust, trust, with all that you are that the good ones, the good things, they will come.
Again...still...always.
Sunsets like this will come...
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