Hello Friday the 13th!
While today may bode ill for some and well for others, we shall celebrate this new day by participating in 5 Minute Friday!
The world turned cold last night. Howling winds assaulted the power lines, the trees, everything in their path. Lights flickered on and off sending all of us scurrying to reset clocks, oven timers, whatever needed to be turned on again. A long sleep, night disquieted by the cacophony.
I awake too early. My alarm won’t sound for several long minutes. I lie in bed listening to the quiet. Darkness surround the room, but I am awake. During these early mornings, I allow my mind to wander. So often, it wanders to the place where worry and doubt live. Lying in a dark room doesn’t help chase away those thoughts. They fester and grow more alive and awake than I am. I listen to their lies of “what if”s” or “you can’t.” They try to choke out my words, my thoughts, my voice with their poison. Darkness allows them to work.
But then the sun creeps up above the horizon–awake. As the first rays of light shine through the bottoms of the tree line, prancing up the branches, I pry myself away from these harbingers of self-loathing. In the morning, I awaken not only physically, but I reawaken my will to overcome fear, to speak against my worries, to use my voice.
Stop.
