April 2, 2013

• Heart: When Things Are Gray

  This is one of my favorite collection of words ever. I found it on a little corner of the internet called Dear Baby. Whenever things are painful or dark for me, and I feel lost and without purpose or reason, and I just. can’t. shake it. off.  I re-read these words. I haven’t needed them in a while, but I’ve felt the urge to pass them on a couple of times lately, so I figured I’d share them here. Maybe they’ll help someone as they’ve continually helped me. 

  “The Ceaseless Enlightenment of a Once Gray Girl

  take one small thing that you love.
  anything.
  the color of your room.
  eggs for breakfast.
  his shirts in your laundry.
  or the dalai lama billboard on the way to work.

  take that one thing.
  and squeeze it like a sponge.
  every ounce of that sweet hum inside you.
  let it change everything.
  find it’s way into thoughts of people who’ve hurt you
  wash over all those times you failed
  and your bruised knee.

  and on it’s own,
  it will began to grow.
  like a speck of sand in an oyster
  that one little joy will turn into two and three and four hundred reasons to open your eyes every morning.

  that’s really how it goes.
  it’s just being willing to let the light in.
  however slight or dim.
  just allow it to be in you.
  sometimes it’s your only defense against
  everything in this world that’s ready to take you down.

  In life, sometimes the only things you’ve got 
  are yellow walls and roadside messages for peace.
  Let them in.”

  -Written by Melissa of Dear Baby

  

  • 12:42 am
  • 2 Comments