Wreckage

Day 77. Wreckage.

There is never a time in our lives that we aren't on the lookout for things that damage us. Things that we let hurt us. People that betray us. People that leave us behind. Battles are fought daily to rise above the madness, to make sense of what has happened and how to move past it.

Richard Bach: Illusions II: Rebuilding us. Isn’t that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury. 

I've been kicked by life. More than once. So? That certainly doesn't make me special. Maybe the number of kicks, but not that it happened. It happens to all of us. If we're lucky, we get it out of the way early in life, rather than waiting and worrying for it to happen. Then we have the rest of our lifetime to recover from it, to rise above that wreckage and make something good happen from it. If not, we wait. Or we get kicked a second time. Maybe even a third. Just means we have learn to be really good at climbing.


I think I learned a secret to climbing out. Don't mistake the handholds you used last time as a way out the second time.The people that were there for you the first time? They might not even be part of your life the next time you need them. You can only truly rely on yourself to get yourself out of anything. Which make sense. You're the one who got you into this mess, you should be the one to get yourself out of it.

Lesson Seventy Seven: Do you have battles you fight to heal yourself of past wounds? Are they debilitating, or do you work your way through the pain? Think about the road ahead, the light at the end of it, and realize that what others see as wreckage, you see as redemption.

653 to go...