Musings

Every Day Is A New Day Forward Together

I like the concept of planting seeds... Seeds of hope, strength, endurance and perseverance during the trying times that come along the Highways and Byways of Life. "Lean on me, as I need to lean on you during the difficult times..."

My dear, ever-growing Husband reiterated to me yesterday evening his personal determination, as we continue to paddle our way together through a tough situation we are joined in overcoming together. I am especially proud of his courage and his determination to paddle alongside me the hardest I have ever seen him paddle here lately- figuratively speaking. I am always reminded of the concept of planting seeds of [faith] in life's most difficult of challenges- situations that are directly connected to the human, emotional heart.  When we plants seeds, it is on the faith that something good will sprout forward from the planting and watering.  Naturally the sprouts will not happen overnight.

But if you are patient and keep tending to the watering of your planting, the potential for growth is indeed there.  And of course there's the [weeding] process. Weeding out the fruitless weeds-weeding out what is not beneficial to the harvesting of good roots.  To each gardener, his own choice- Are you planting for the purpose of producing a beautiful, colorful garden or crop? Or are you planting pointlessly, a field of weeds? I personally prefer flowering shrubs and a plentiful harvest that endures the changing seasons.  

There isn't a life that has not known hardship,loss, rivers of tears, setbacks; or even the slightest feeling of having failed at something at one point or another in ones personal lifetime.  However, these seemingly dark chapters in ones personal existence are a temporal state of being.

The sun will shine again, you will smile again, you will laugh again and you will love again! For every hardship, every moment of despair, and every tear that you cry, there is a doorway through to a better and brighter tomorrow. Embrace the hope and promise of another moment, another day, another year forward.

As for how this personal philosophy applies to my dear husband Curt and I, we WILL, only God willing, see many more sunrises and sunsets together in spite of the storms that we have endured together. We share the kind of marriage that withstands the winds of change.