Sometimes it Hurts

I called my blog emerging from the dark night because I believe that we grow by passing through the darkness and emerging out of the other side. In this blog I find a lot of what I feel being articulated more clearly than I am at times able to in my more personal blogs. Hopefully it will resonate with you. ❤ (And thanks to Mark Lanesbury for commenting on a recent post of mine, I found this blog of Cristen’s as a reblog on his site Healing Your Heart.)

The thing about spiritual awakening is that sometimes it hurts.

We talk a lot about the way that everything gets a little brighter and how the world transforms before your eyes.  We relish describing how there’s this bottomless well of love hidden right inside your own chest and the way that your relationships – with yourself, with others, with the earth, with god – suddenly and drastically change for the better once you learn how to tap into it.  We take joy in sharing the beauty of the journey; but what we often fail to mention is all of the pain that must be endured along the way.

We neglect to talk about how much your feet start to grow tired and eventually bleed as you learn how to walk through rather than around the thorns and barbs in your path.  And we forget to mention that courage doesn’t just…

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