If we just miss the place we once called home, we will never build one here.
If we only wish for dear, old friends, we will never make new ones.
If we spend all our time searching for the familiar, nothing will ever become familiar.
These are a few things we have learned by leaving everything we know and love. I believe the concepts are finally sinking in. It makes sense. But it is not easy. When you fill your life to the brim with love and beauty and warmth and comfort, it is not easy to start over. It's only natural to miss that place and those people. We begin to believe that all we have is the missing. We fill our hearts with it. And we close ourselves off to anything new because we are afraid and we know that the new will not feel like the old familiar fit.
And that is how we keep ourselves from being happy and from doing good. With closed hearts.
I've heard a lot of people express the importance of keeping an open mind. But I don't think that's nearly as important as keeping an open heart. It is not my mind that allows me to be moved by compassion, to be understanding, to love others. It is my heart.
Today as I walked home through the city, after breakfast with dear new friends who will become old familiar ones, I realized my heart was opening up a little more to this new life. I didn't see it happening and its sort of scary. An open heart is a risky thing to carry with you. But it is so, so worth it.
xo,
jess
3 comments:
Thank you for this sweet reminder. It was much needed during this season in my life.
I hope all is well with you.
much love, friend.
-colie
xoxo
This made my heart smile {and ache a little}. Love you.
this post is exactly what i needed to hear! after moving from one city to the next every few months, my heart ached with being transplanted so much and i literally have given up setting down roots b/c of the pain and fear of being uprooted again :/
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