I was finishing up a book this evening and I was struck by some of the imagery and truths in it. It talked of how our thoughts can take form. They can become “misshapen through the error and ignorance, and perhaps even the darkness, of the person who had thought it into life.”
I don’t think that I’ve ever thought about what our thoughts can become. I mean, yes, I try to use my words, my thoughts for manifestation but I don’t think I’ve given enough thought to what our negative, ugly, mean, or cruel thoughts can become, what they manifest as well.
I should! I watched “The Secret” and read the book! But the way it was described in this book struck me.
“…the knowledge (came to her) that many thoughts in (the) world grew these misshapen forms, that this was the way people made them, because they did not know that their thoughts could have form, that things were birthed and grew from that which was dwelt upon long and hard enough.”
That was one lesson to learn. The next was that, “whatever was torn apart could be woven back together. – Whatever was broken could be mended. – Whatever died lived again.”
It’s a choice we make. We choose whether or not to let our thoughts turn dark, turn negative, we choose what our thoughts become. We choose whether or not to put things back together – will we mend it? Will we knit it back together?
Then the last lesson, “We must not be afraid of the work we want to do. We must deal with our fear and then turn and do our work.”
I just saw in my mind’s eye a broken bowl that’s be repaired with gold, in the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi, and made even more beautiful, even more precious. It’s a choice we make… do we throw it out? Or do we do the work to repair it and make it even better, ever stronger than before?
I can see this in so many places in my life, in my family, in my community, the country and the world.
We, each one of us, has to decide if we are willing to do the hard work of knitting what is broken back together again, are we willing to change our thoughts? To love ourselves and each other enough to take those dark thoughts and shine some light on them and shower them with love. Are we willing to take what’s broken weld it back together with love and light so that it’s more beautiful than it ever was before?
Too often we tend to take the easy way out, to throw out what’s broken and replace it when what we really need to do, is to tenderly hold on to it, love it, shine light on it so we can see into the dark spaces and then do the hard work of healing it, of mending it so that when we are done, it’s more beautiful than it ever was.
It’s possible, I’ve seen it. I’ve done it and I’m sure there are places in my life I need to continue to do it. Some things may take a lifetime to repair but the beauty at the end will be worth it.
Until next time… ♥️
NOTES: Excerpts taken from the last chapter of “The Singing” by Katherine Genet
Simply Sherri 
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