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The depth of the deepest heart.
The heart that feels so deeply, believe me, has enough strength to go on!
With about as many questions as the layers of the earth
A deep feeling heart sinking deeper and deeper into the rocks and soil of the soul
Waiting with eager expectation
What will surface,
Before I reach the core of the earth?
The core of my being?
Oh how beautiful is it is;
Redemption,
The reviving of the soul.
If anything gives me hope,
Gives me comfort,
It is that I will not be abandoned
To that deep, dark place.
I know that help is on The Way,
I know that I will be drawn up.
Risen anew.
Pushed up by a Water,
A Life Force,
That is so much greater than I.
So much greater than I,
Can understand.
With about as many questions as the layers of the earth,
A deep feeling heart sinking deeper and deeper into the rocks and soil of the soul.
Waiting with eager expectation.
What will surface,
Before I reach the core of the earth?
The core of my being.
Original Acrylic Painting on 18 x 24 in Level 3 professional grade gallery wrapped canvas.
Sides painted a solid & sleek black.
Easily removable hanging wire on back, ready to hang or can be framed.
Sealed with Winsor & Newton Professional grade UV Protectant.
Painted with Winsor & Newton Professional grade Acrylic Paint.
Canvas sealed with Winsor & Newton Professional Grade Modeling Paste.
Digging into our feelings as they dig back into us; its challenging-to-sift-through rocks. A sinking heart struck a spring of water buried down so deep. The water returned the heart with its current, back up into the body, then its healing rose like a fountain.
When you hit rock bottom, it seems like you’ll stay there forever, like it’s never going to end. Unfortunately, it couldn’t feel further from hitting a reviving spring of water. But often there’s a lesson and we have no idea what could be about to bloom in our lives!
Before we have the wisdom to see through to the next layer of our lessons, we realize we aren’t at the bottom after all, as things get worse. My mental health at times was not so healthy and the thoughts would keep me on a continual sinking journey, a spiral of all the things I never wanted to experience, going down, reeling and spinning in stuck-like feelings. It takes a LOT of courage to honor that place! A lot of strength to believe in your own resilience before there’s any proof! A lot of practice to see the beauty in that kind of pain.
Now that my mind has found healing and practiced long enough with its tools, I find it’s easier to see the bigger picture when life throws me a curveball. Stepping back from our limited perspective in time, we know in the end everything turns out exactly how is best.
Without pain, the strength gained from rising out of it would not be integrated into our lives. Without feeling those intense and overwhelming emotions the girl would not have had the healing breakthrough that she did. Although I am a firm believer in growth without pain and wisdom with its lessons of change being taught in joyous ways, I understand the place pain has in healing. Oftentimes what has hurt us in the past cannot be completely healed without examining those scarred places and exposing the truth of what happened in the light of current life experience and a wiser perspective that comes with time and age.
I have come to appreciate and even be thankful for the pain I have faced and I feel courageous to meet whatever comes my way. The freedom on the other side is enough to give you hope for the next trial you face and enough to inspire gratitude for what you went through.
But it’s never an instant healing, even though it looks so quick the way the water shoots up with force and momentum! To some extent, it does feel quick, there’s a great sense of relief when you first strike the water, it feels like everything is finally falling into place; everything you've been learning along the way has been building upon itself and it’s just a bit clearer now!
It is a circle, you're not just healed all of a sudden, it's a constant digging deep. What if we could see the healing before it happened? Maybe that would be enough to jump-start it. What if we believed the water was there before we actually found it? Would that be enough hope to push through?
All it takes is the eyes to see! The eyes to see how brave and strong you are, how resilient and bold you have been in the past, to really see yourself for who you really are and who you have been in the big picture of things; who you are being called to become.
The heart that feels so deeply, believe me, has enough strength to go on!
Giving ourselves the time and patience to heal is so important. Ultimately to a place of acceptance, gratitude and worship! And then the cycle begins again, except this time you’re moving on to learn new lessons, and you have all the tools from the lessons of the past, to face the new ones with more strength!