I don't know about you beautiful women, but I am more than ready for Spring to come.
If you're in a cold climate right now you know that that reality seems far off. Looking out my dorm window, I'm seeing snow drift across the faces of cold students walking from class to class, and not a spot of sunshine through the clouds.
So it doesn't look like Spring yet. We're going to have to accept that.
And yet...in some ways, it feels like it it's coming in a big way.
I know I sound like a crazy person, but bear with me.
These past few weeks, days, even, I have started to believe in a newness that is sweeping into my life. I don't know if any of you feel like this, but it's like God is opening up a new book for me, and showing me new pages, day by day. Sometimes I have hard days, and moments where I feel like the sun will never show her face, but then I live a moment or say a prayer and think, it's coming. It's coming, and I know it. I don't know fully what is ahead, but I feel excited.
It's like a single daffodil coming from the white white snow.
If you feel this newness, this sense of something coming, this HOPE that you can't shut out, let's talk about it. I know it's still cold outside. I know the wind howls and sometimes you feel like it gets so dark you have no light to walk by, but the light is there. Look closely, you'll see it.
I want us to talk about brand-spanking-newness. About new life. About delight and beauty and the beauty of ourselves. It's what I'm calling "The New New." The not quite, but coming soon. The in-between place and what we can do to accept the good things that are coming our way while not having them yet.
This might all sound like a lot of mumbo-jumbo, but I hope you get it. Please let your voice be heard- leave a comment and discuss this with me. I want to join in the conversation too.
SO, Beautiful women, what's new?
(Now you know that's a loaded question, but you must answer it for me. I have missed you and I want to rejoice with you...in what is and what is yet to come).
To the New New,
Claire
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2 comments:
hey claire, i think it was just this morning we were talking about the ridiculous anthro exam, but somehow i stumbled across your blog. thanks so much for this. i don't know what to add about the 'new new' cause it's just something i'm barely even able to hope for in all the discouraging things that have been going on, but yeah. keep writing, it's lovely :]
I feel like I'm ready to risk things. To be outgoing without being afraid of my own strength, of my power to overshadow people. I've spent my whole life bottling up my thoughts and my personality. And I'm not going to anymore. I'm going to be brave. I'm going to risk saying too much and being a little overpowering. I'm going to stop coping out by just not trying, and I'm going to find the balance between hiding and shining too much that I dull out other people.
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