Dear Friend,

"Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows."

~Helen Keller~

Dear Friend,

Letting go is never easy.  It's turning away from once was and accepting what is now.  There's often grieving. And clinging.  Fear.  It's a painful process of shedding our old skins, so to speak.

There's beauty and wonder in it as well.  We can't always see them through the tangled mass of emotions.  Until we venture close enough to peer through them. It's like approaching burning flames; we know it's going to hurt.

Sometimes the heart's not ready.  It pins you down.  Or paralyzes you in fear.  Or begs for Novocain.  And we relent; because which direction should we really go?  Which way is forward?  And how are we to know when everything feels so backwards?

We don't know.  And we can't know. And there's half the beauty right there.  For around the corner we may walk into more strife.  Or we may walk into joyful surprises and unexpected delights.

It's such a risk, this life we live.  The constant opportunity to make choices.  Will we stand?  Or will we fall?  We'll do both.  And we'll persevere......because it's what we do.

Peace,
Betty