Over twenty years we have known one another, and yet at times I feel I don't know him at all. He will say something, or do something that I have never heard or seen him do before. As if he turned over a stone and a sprout shoots up.
I see a moist fertile ground underneath,
aching for a seed and
one is planted with a whisper,
"I never knew that before…"
Have you ever felt the air change, though there isn't a breeze.
Something new takes root.
Relationships are like a garden. We hold seeds waiting for the right season to plant them. Waiting can be hard, but if we plant them too soon they might not take root… When the sun warms and the rain softens the ground, a seed drops, we gently cover it wondering if can take the entirety of our soul and grow…
Waiting carefully not to pull at it, or stomp out the little green things that might appear, believing in it we water it, shelter it, give it room to grow without weeding it to death.
…With a gentle hand.
Tender and true through the seasons it becomes, changes colors, grows anew, endures pruning and stagnation, blooms…
She sees for the first time.
Love exchange.
As he went on with his day I thought to myself isn't life incredible, challenging, fearless… It is easy to become caught up in the day forgetting to see the tender new growth, the underline hope, the smell of rain, the sun warming our back, more so it is easy not to notice the person right in front of us… the inner song of their soul, their spirit, the beating of their heart, the source that passes between us.
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