Living in Full Bloom
Do not let those moments when you cannot find the light hold you back. For you have something within that will always seek to bloom - you just need to help it, believe in it. That little tug to open your heart and connect - please listen to it. Give yourself permission to be seen - not for the pleasure of another’s gaze or words but for you. Allow yourself to see and marvel at how fully you can grow your ideas and flourish in this world. Trust that magic can always bloom, even in darkness.
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I think that it can be easy - well, not exactly easy because it hurts - to give up when things aren’t going your way. Recently, I sat and listened as a loved one shared that he was going to quit a sport he loved. Who am I to judge? I do not live his life. I do not walk in his shoes but when he said those words, something felt off. So I asked what the thinking was behind that choice.
“I’m just not good. I have nothing to offer,” he said.
I could not help but to think of flowers. A lovely friend left a vase of the sweetest flowers for my daughter on our porch the other day. They were these tiny, delicate buds and I wondered - would they bloom? I’m sure that sounds like a silly question. We give flowers to one another all the time but usually they seem like big, bright, beautiful blossoms, or at least that’s what I choose for people. These were stunning and yet so tender. Over the course of the following week, we gave them love, light, water - all the things needed to bloom which they did as you can see in the photo above.
Sometimes we forget how to properly care for ourselves. The world screams at us, it demands our attention. It can be overwhelming; we can lose ourselves in it all. We compare and suddenly find ourselves lacking in some way. We get stuck and forget that we need to feed our heart and soul first before we can help to feed and care for the world. It happens to all of us at some point in our lifetime.
Yet, every day we have the chance to continue to bloom; it’s something we do over the course of our entire lives. And if we share with another when we are stuck, a trusted friend or loved one, perhaps together, we can create those conditions - love, light, soul nourishment - that will allow us to remember, we not only have magic within, we have an endless ability to bloom. A reminder of this idea sent my loved one back out to play the sport he loves and already I see new, tiny buds getting ready to blossom.
Today, I invite you to think about flowers. If there are no flowers around you, artists throughout history have celebrated flowers so look them up for some inspiration. There’s something about wildflowers that simply stirs my soul. Perhaps that’s why I’ve always been partial to Gustav Klimt’s Flower Garden.
What flower(s) have you always favored? If you were one, what would you be? What kind of nourishment do you need to grow?
Love,
Natasha