Unexpected Healing
I received a text on Saturday. My Sisterhood’s trip to Hawaii had begun, the one I was not going to join…until they sent me a ticket for Sunday…
Moana’s chicken, Heihei, was the first to greet me in Maui as he randomly, unpredictably jutted down the runway to my left. The fresh, ocean breeze washed the airplane sleep from my eyes as I took deep cleansing breaths. This was not where I expected to be this weekend.
This week/summer has been an emotional one with the recent anguish of Zegan’s brush with death; a shake up with our baseball family; the injustice of another; and the irretrievable loss of Marcia…
I was conflicted about dropping everything and joining my Sisterhood in Maui. I sound like a brat, I know, but I am not so pliable anymore. The journey from impending loss to promise of sudden joy, left me tangled.
A visit with Oswald Chambers’ book, focusing me back on my Savior, began my unwinding.
And then, He gave me that silly erratic chicken. It was as if the chicken embodied the tangle of my summer, and as it ran away, it took my conflicted self with it, making room for the healing to come.
What better place to sort out life, surrounded by my Sisterhood, than this sudden gift of joy: a ticket and promise of paradise.
Hello, Maui.
July, 2018
AMRB
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