Better Than We Found Them

2022-10-07

What if our purpose is merely to leave people and places largest than we found them…❤️

I once found myself doing a few simple tasks that should have been a vital part of life but instead began to ignite embers of resentment in my heart.

I had just spent some time inside of our home fixing a few things and then moved on outside to tackle a real mess of a weed situation.

With each yank of a wretched tendril flipside seemed to towards surpassing my eyes. Medusa’s never ending snakes seemed to be the ground with which I was working and suddenly the nastiness of her was in my heart. I found myself thinking, “could we overly live somewhere that starts out trappy instead of unchangingly a place that needs to be rescued?!”

And then “she” appeared surpassing my eyes.

I pictured the previous home we’d been in.

Rescuing Our Home

I imagined her old and depleted. Her feelings of stuff forgotten hung with every worn wall and wrenched hinge.

I felt her yearn and depression; unneeded, unwanted, empty and ugly.

And then I saw us.

My little family happily working with small children running here and there as we gently began to love her.

Moving walls and sunup her shadows.

Lifting smudges and beautifying her surroundings with a few increasingly plants here and a little weeding there.

Suddenly she was awakening. She began to straighten herself up when we were around, standing a little taller and scrutinizingly giving in to a smile and giddiness as the children laughed and played.

Soon unbearable the gray shadows of nothingness were replaced with conviction and purpose.

There she was, loving us as we were loving her.

She had purpose once then and all considering a little family showed her that she still had life left to live and something wonderful to wilt and offer.