Mend.....

We mend a lot of things in our lives......farmers mend fences; seamstresses mend tears in fabric; mending is sometimes tedious and sometimes not. Life often times is ripped and torn and needs to be mended. Let's look at our lives as a piece of very fragile yet precious fabric. At times it is so easily torn and not so easily mended. And more times than not, the mending leaves scars.....mental and emotional. But here's the thing, you can't live life as it's meant to be lived if you don't have tears from time to time. Relationships end, words are hurled, actions are taken and someone is the recipient of these things. And when it's you, then your job is to very precisely mend. It may takes years, there will be gaping holes that need to be filled, jagged edges that must be somehow pieced back together. You may or may not need help to get the job done and you may or may not have ugly scars to show or hide. Possibly each emotion you have is a different fabric......some are sturdy cotton, some are very fragile silk. Some hold steady in a storm and some split easily. And the mending needs to be such that it renders the fabric stronger. We are all damaged from time to time. We all suffer. We all lose loved ones. We all are humans living the human experience. I don't think it's the tragedies we suffer that define us; I think it's the strength in our mending that does this. If right now, you are mending, if you are repairing and redoing, then my wish for you is that your stitches be strong and straight. And that when the process is done, you are stronger than you ever thought you could be. Have a Blessed Sunday my friends.