Congratulations on your anniversary with substack. And I too feel tired and plan to cut back on the holiday expectations. Be simple instead. Sounds wonderful!
I really love your poem! Breaking and re-breaking, yes this feels so true. Tomorrow my post is on brokenness. It is like this breaking and re-breaking. Very touched by your post today. I feel you!
That line, heart breaking and rebreaking, shivers. I felt that so deeply. There's a song by a Christian band I love called Heretic, with a line that says "Offend my mind so that I can know you more, and break my heart for what breaks yours," and it gets me every time.
I think it's the bittersweet work of noticing and expanding your own boundaries of capacity. But you can't get there until you go through the breaking first.
Congratulations on your anniversary with substack. And I too feel tired and plan to cut back on the holiday expectations. Be simple instead. Sounds wonderful!
I really love your poem! Breaking and re-breaking, yes this feels so true. Tomorrow my post is on brokenness. It is like this breaking and re-breaking. Very touched by your post today. I feel you!
Thank you, Julie! I'll look forward to reading your post!
That line, heart breaking and rebreaking, shivers. I felt that so deeply. There's a song by a Christian band I love called Heretic, with a line that says "Offend my mind so that I can know you more, and break my heart for what breaks yours," and it gets me every time.
I think it's the bittersweet work of noticing and expanding your own boundaries of capacity. But you can't get there until you go through the breaking first.
Bittersweet, indeed.
Thank you for this poem and your words. I too am feeling the tiredness of the end of the year and wondering how we will all navigate through it.
I'm grateful for your advent to help me through!