Honouring Past and Present

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

The time has come to honour, then let go of, a significant portion of my past. I feel sad.

I am as grateful to the Universe for my past as I am grateful for my present network of friends and loved ones who are there to support me in my journey of letting it go. You know who you are. Thank you, from the deepest of my being.