Points of Light, I suppose I can do this blog because I used to be broken. I once lived in a place where nothing about me felt fixable. You get it or you'd probably not be reading this.
I've made a post here where I've shared with you how in my brokenness, I've experienced all my emotional pain this way- "I found a way to continue my pain, to let it move when I moved, to let it smile when I smiled, to let it pat someone on the back when I patted someone on the back." Maybe that's you and if it is, could you do something for me? Right now, right where you sit, just pause, pause and know that I love you, pause and know everyone reading this loves you too. Please pause to feel love and allow some much-deserved tenderness to gently caress you with the warmth you need. Thank you.
Points Of Light, consider being honest in your brokenness. You've either read or will read in this blog that I'm a proponent of being brutally honest about a fearless inventory of the real you. I don't suggest anyone do this like I did, out in the open by posting all the dark self-stuff on Facebook, but to your therapist for sure. Be fearless against everything that's in you. You can do this. Why? Because you know everything about it! You know it's in's and out's, it's up's and down's, what gets it angry and upset and every nuance and subtlety it uses. Let the truth of all of it be known to someone besides yourself. Points of light, I love you so much, I love you in your brokenness, and I love you through all your pain, and about all that pain, truth be told, you can always share it with me, I'll listen.
When I first heard this song on the 24th of November 2019, I had it playing in the background. At first, I felt like it wasn't providing me with the mood I wanted to feel to advance my working on your blog. But then I noticed how its tempo, beat, and expression was telling me a story I needed and even wanted to hear. So, I stopped typing so I could just listen to its story. The more I listened, the more precious it became to me as it was telling me about my life with colors so close to the very ones I'd choose if I painted the picture the song is showing people. It put me at a loss for words and I found this was okay and beautiful. Everything in this song is showing light and color and beauty for life. A song full of lights colors, painting our story Points of Light! When we look for light, sometimes we find it piercing through our darkness and we have to be receptive to this kind of love to find a smile crossing our face in these moments of happiness.
Truth Be Told Matthew West
Lie number one: You're supposed to have it all together And when they ask how you're doing, just smile and tell them, "Never better"
Lie number two: Everybody's life is perfect except yours So, keep your messes and your wounds and your secrets safe with you behind closed doors
But truth be told The truth is rarely told, no...
I say, "I'm fine, yeah, I'm fine, oh, I'm fine, hey, I'm fine" But I'm not, I'm broken And when it's out of control I say it's under control But it's not and You know it I don't know why it's so hard to admit it When being honest is the only way to fix it There's no failure, no fall There's no sin You don't already know So let the truth be told
There's a sign on the door, says, "Come as you are" but I doubt it 'Cause if we lived like that was true, every Sunday morning pew would be crowded
But didn't You say church should look more like a hospital? A safe place for the sick, the sinner and the scarred, and the prodigals, like me
But truth be told, the truth is rarely told Oh, am I the only one who says...
"I'm fine, yeah, I'm fine, oh, I'm fine, hey, I'm fine" But I'm not, I'm broken
And when it's out of control I say it's under control But it's not and You know it
I don't know why it's so hard to admit it When being honest is the only way to fix it
There's no failure, no fall There's no sin You don't already know So let the truth be told
Can I really stand here unashamed Knowing that Your love for me won't change? Oh God, if that's really true Then let the truth be told
I say, "I'm fine, yeah, I'm fine, oh, I'm fine, hey, I'm fine" But I'm not, I'm broken And when it's out of control I say it's under control But it's not and You know it I don't know why it's so hard to admit it When being honest is the only way to fix it There's no failure, no fall There's no sin You don't already know Yeah, I know There's no failure, no fall There's no sin You don't already know So let the truth be told
Love and Peace,
Tod w/only one d
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