Softness Amidst the Hard
Our lives may have challenges that enter them.
Sometimes the challenges seem so big. Sometimes the challenges seem to stay for so long.
May we always remember to find the softness in every moment, that is hard.
May we also remember that we can react with a hardened heart, or the soft touch of love.
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5 Comments to “Softness Amidst the Hard”
Like the Ice Plant shown above, it is soft and delicate, but is planted often to control and stabilize erosion along sandy and crumbling cliff shores. Therefore, something soft has the power to create a happy medium where it becomes a product of harmony, working effortlessly to keep that which is already fragile momentarily glued together. Through its softness, it still allows for erosion and change to move through the environment, but it keeps things together long enough for many stories to come together, where seemingly infinite heard and unheard voices can sing their songs in momentary relationship to each other.
Hi b
I had no idea it was the Ice Plant and did what it did! How even more appropriate! I just liked the idea of the soft delicate flowers growing amidst the sharp, hard rocks.
Thank you so much for your addition!
Another name for this plant and flower is Hottentot Fig. The purple one’s that you may be seeing along the coast are sea figs. I like how that there is always something blooming along the coastline in California at any time of year.
What a great find!! Love the metaphors here!!!
Thank you Marcie!