Rain Always Brings Growth

 Rain Always Brings Growth.....

11-28-2022 & 11-28-2016

 2022

 

As I opened up this place called Facebook.....a place of Memories and History.....of Joy and Grief....I see this staring back at me from 2016.

"There is no FEAR in letting tears come. Sadness is a GIFT to avoid the nothingness of numbness, and all hard places need water.

Grief is a GIFT, and after a rain of tears, there is always more of you than there was before the tears.…

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 2016

I woke to the wind howling... the rain pouring out of the sky like a hard sobbing cry this morning.....Today marks the 1-year anniversary of the beginning of a month-of-floods for this little family of ours....

 

"There is no fear in letting tears come. Sadness is a GIFT to avoid the nothingness of numbness, and all hard places need water. Grief is a GIFT, and after a rain of tears, there is always more of you than before. What seems to be undoing you can ultimately remake you." 

 

(Ann VosKamp, "The Broken Way")

 

Rain always brings growth.......