I've already decided which post I will be submitting to Mel's creme de la creme for 2011, and was going to post that here today, but while that may be my favorite post from this year, to get my All Time Favorite Post I have to go back - way back, to a post titled On Falling.
This post is my favorite because it brings me spiritually and creatively back to a place where I felt so in tune with my emotions. It highlights what a gift grief can be. Yes, you read that right - a gift - because grief provides you with a deeper, richer view of the world. It helps you to see meanings that you may have overlooked before loss. It proves that even in the pain, there is still so much beauty to be found. Beauty that encourages you to keep trying. To keep going.
Many of you have already read the post. Some of you have not. Give it a read and let me know what you think, then be sure to hop over to Four of a Kind and submit your own favorite.
oh lovely... lovely... this was just 15 short days past Josephs passing when you posted this.. I had not yet found your blog.. so this to me today was new. plain and simple.. All time favorite.. just beautiful. - Brandy
ReplyDeleteI agree that this was a hard theme. I thought it would be easier to choose too, but like you different posts mean a lot to me for different reasons, so choosing just one was a challenge. I can't wait to see what you chose for the Creme this year too!
ReplyDeleteAs for what you chose for your "All-Time Favorite," as I said in my comment over there, I thought your post was absolutely gorgeous. I really appreciate the perspective you shared and I will never witnessing leaves falling from a tree in the same way.
I also really like how you explained why this one was your favorite:
"It highlights what a gift grief can be. Yes, you read that right - a gift - because grief provides you with a deeper, richer view of the world. It helps you to see meanings that you may have overlooked before loss. It proves that even in the pain, there is still so much beauty to be found. Beauty that encourages you to keep trying. To keep going."
Just beautiful.
Thank you for "doing the Time Warp" with us this week and I hope you'll join us again next week or another Tuesday in the future! :)
What a truly beautiful post you picked. On Falling highlights the fact that even in the darkest places there is something to be valued and treasured.
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ReplyDeleteThat post was so incredible. Thank you.
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I find this as beautiful as the original post:
ReplyDelete"grief provides you with a deeper, richer view of the world. It helps you to see meanings that you may have overlooked before loss. It proves that even in the pain, there is still so much beauty to be found."
Wow. I believe this. You captured my feelings so well.
From your original post: Perhaps their worth stretches well beyond the wooden limb, to a place of deeper beauty only made possible by the fall.
ReplyDeleteJust stunning. What a gorgeous, beautiful post.
This also stuck with me: The beauty of life, too, can be found, in those moments that are out of our control.
It made me think: there's a reason it's called "free falling." In that moment of being disconnected from everything, we are truly free.
Thank you so much for sharing this for TWT!