Dying To Bloom

Every year I can count on the trees losing their leaves and essentially dying for a few months. Also, every year I look forward to those same trees blooming leaves and birthing new life. Those trees endure so much month after month withstanding the elements. They survive freezing cold temperatures and winter snow storms only to stand tall smiling under the sunshine and heat waves during the summer.

I have gotten use to this cycle! I have come to understand the process and how much it is connected to my own life. The older I get the more I appreciate the cycle of change. Ill say thinking of the trees alone has granted me a deeper level of understanding on life. Every year I have dealt with something “falling off” and sure enough a new something was re-birthed shortly after. Whether I was expecting it to or not this cycle still took place during many phases of my lifetime.

Unlike me knowing the trees bloom each year there were times in my life I didn’t know when I would bloom again. But I always did. There were times I could not foresee my leaves falling off. But they always did. I can’t say I was ever prepared in advance for either or, all i knew was when the time came I lived through it just fine. These days I see meaning in every single thing around me. I take weeks sometimes to process it all.

I am currently processing…….

Bloom where you are planted.

- Unknown