Extremes.

Extremes exist within, and without. This seems to be the way of the human condition. If we’re lucky, if we’re awake, we learn to make space for all of it.

If we can do this… Make space for the extremes… We might be fortunate enough to live in the middle.

I want to be in the in between…

I know this because I know what I don’t want. I don’t want to live in the extreme of self loathing or in the extreme of arrogance. I want to live in the middle where I can remember that everything I think is not necessarily real… Where my beliefs are, just that… Beliefs.

And when I stand in that middle ground, I want to leave space for others to join me there.  I want to see other people’s extremes as temporary parking places… Not necessarily where they’ll live forever.

I believe that the middle ground is where grace is born. The middle ground helps us to remember that we too, I, too… Can fall into the extremes  at any time. And my hope is that if I ever get lost in one of those extremes, someone else will give me patience and grace, and help me find my way back to the middle.

I’m glad you’re here 💜

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