Tag: light and shadow

  • the minute the room changed

    the minute the room changed

    entry twenty seven – scattered light, fractured grace: a quiet archive of light, loss, and what remains.

    There is a peculiar kind of relief in finally being believed.

    In having the things you’ve struggled to explain, the things you’ve telt in your body, and in your intuition and soul, and tried to put into words, become something tangible.

    Something recognizable.

    Something with a name.

    It was in this moment that everything changed.

    I wasn’t celebrating the possibility of being sick.

    I was relieved that I hadn’t imagined being unwell

    Sometimes, the most frightening answers are also the ones that finally let you exhale.

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    the minute the room changed

    The clock on the wall read the same time it had been reading. Nothing about the room looked different. Same light, same quiet, same everything. But in a single moment everything in me changed. It wasn’t a “good” moment, but I was happy about it.

    I was happy… again. 

    I hadn’t been happy in so long. I’d felt like I was the only one living in reality. I’d spent so much time trying to explain what I was experiencing. The strange symptoms, the things that didn’t feel right, the things I knew were happening even when I couldn’t quite find the words to describe them. The things I KNEW God was showing me. 

    There were obvious explanations offered, of course. Hormones. Stress. Recovery. Grief. Maybe a little of this, maybe a little of that.

    Except I knew something else was going on. I’d been saying it all along… and then came the words that changed everything.

    It wasn’t necessarily good news. In fact, there’s a lot about what comes next that I don’t know yet, and I’m not pretending otherwise. But I cannot adequately explain the relief I felt in that moment. I think someone who hasn’t experienced it might have a hard time understanding why a potentially terrible diagnosis could make someone feel so relieved.

    But I wasn’t relieved because I was sick. I was relieved because I wasn’t imagining it. Because the things I’d been trying to communicate for so long were finally being acknowledged. There was something tangible to point to, something that connected the dots, something that said, yes, this is happening. No, you are NOT crazy, or lazy, or a problem.

    I remember thinking, “I told you I was experiencing these things. I’m so glad there is definitive proof now. Thank you, science.” 😂

    I think that’s the thing that stays with me the most loudly. It’s not the diagnosis itself, not even the uncertainty of what it means for the future, but the sheer exhaustion of knowing something is wrong and not being able to make anyone else understand what you’re trying to tell them.

    There’s a peculiar kind of relief in finally being believed. Even when what you’re being believed about isn’t something you ever wanted to be true. Somehow this has become one of the most beautiful moments of my entire life. I finally proved myself. All it took was three more vials of my blood. 

    I don’t know what this next chapter looks like. I have some things to learn, some things to process, and undoubtedly some things to navigate. But that particular moment is going to stay with me.

    The clock kept ticking. The room stayed the same.

    I didn’t. 

    Thank you, God.

    🥹🙌😌

  • An Everyday Moment, or a Quiet Epiphany?

    An Everyday Moment, or a Quiet Epiphany?

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    In an unassuming corner of the yard, this yellow iris has unfurled like a quiet epiphany. What was once a tightly wound promise, rhizome buried deep through winter’s long hush, now opens fully to the light. Its ruffled petals now catch the sun with an almost reckless joy. The veins of deep gold trace a map of quiet persistence, while the orange heart glows like an inner fire that refused to go out.

    Beside it, younger buds wait in patient green, still curled in their own contemplative silence. They teach their own lesson: not everything must bloom at once. Some wisdom arrives early; some lingers in the stalk, trusting the season will call when it is ready.

    There is something profoundly philosophical in this annual resurrection. The iris does not bloom for applause or permanence. It blooms because that is its nature, with its brief, brilliant way of saying yes to existence, and it does so right here, against the ordinary creamy beige siding of daily life, proving that the sacred never waits for perfect conditions. It simply returns, year after year, not asking permission or requiring validation, reminding us that we too carry rhizomes of possibility beneath the surface of our ordinary days.

    Seasons of dormancy give way to moments of vivid becoming, if only we pause long enough to witness it. Perhaps every ordinary moment holds the potential for a quiet epiphany. The question is whether we slow down enough to notice.

    He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

    xo,

    c.

  • Presence.

    Presence.

    What you create…
    does not require an explanation of itself.
    It doesn’t need to convince, convert, or justify.
    It just needs to exist. Quietly, softly—
    like fog curling through trees
    or dust dancing across old floorboards.

    Like light through ancient glass,
    sacred, but unflinching; gentle, but resolute.
    A whisper with weight,
    in that space exists everything—
    beyond the reach of articulation.

    Silence is a presence, as much as an absence.
    Holy.
    Haunting.
    Both leave their imprint.

    You are free to feel
    without having to be felt back.
    Free to present
    instead of perform.
    Free to sit beside your own silence,
    and know that it understands.

    Because your creation…
    exists.

    entry one — scattered light, fractured grace: a quiet archive of light, loss, and what remains.