Flowering Fridays: On Blooming Fully
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 12:01AM 
Mums from grocery store, kitchen table, new house
One of the things I love about flowers is there is such a sense of exuberant abandon when they open.
It's like they are saying a hearty "YES!" to life and to what is being called forth from them.
We are settling into our new place, and I feel like after months of shedding petals and pruning, I'm opening to bloom again.
Unlike this flower, my petals are not yet fully open, but I feel that instinctual pull to surrending to the bloom that is forming.
I'm not sure about the size or shape of the bloom that's opening, but I know it will be uniquely mine and, I hope, it will be exuberant in its allowing the fullness to emerge.
I'm excited to see what unfolds.
Tell me, what's blooming within you this week?
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Flowering Fridays is a weekly look at flowers through the lens of what they might teach us about flowering fully in our life. Past editions are here.
Reader Comments (1)
Shannon, my heart goes out to you. I know something of what you're going through right now as I said goodbye to my own mother 5 years ago. It was truly the hardest thing I've ever done. Like you, there was loss upon loss as my sweet little dog died just the day before my mom, but I liked to think of him waiting to welcome her over and the two of them being together.
Take it one day at a time...one moment at a time...when it becomes overwhelming. You will grieve the loss and you will celebrate the love and it's all jumbled up together in one painful, joyful package that will leave you gasping, yet thankful.
Peaceful hugs to you, Kate