Planting Flowers in the Cracks

Hello, and welcome to the blog! I’m so excited you’re here, and I can’t wait for you to read all the great posts that will be going up in the coming weeks.

By now you may have noticed the flowers at the top of the screen, and my message – Planting Flowers in the Cracks.

This is a message that’s come to mean a lot to me recently, and I believe in the positivity it can bring to your life as well!  

It’s no secret that the past few years have been incredibly difficult. It seems that everywhere we look there is something dark or broken around us. There is cruelty that we can’t make sense of, and burdens that weigh heavily on our minds and hearts.

I have always been a joyful person, but in the past year I hit a breaking point. I found myself in a job that I expected to love, but was actually miserable in. This job put me in a position to see the most broken parts of our world, and it broke my faith in people.

I saw how people treated each other, and how it impacted those around us. It weighed so heavily on my heart, and it got to the point I just couldn’t do it anymore. I left that job, and knew that I would have to undo the pain that had taken hold of my heart.

Then I spent the summer trying to heal what was broken in me – and it has been harder than I expected. I look at the world around me, and want so desperately to believe in people. To see the good without hesitation. To put my whole heart into the things that I love without fear of being knocked down again.

My rose colored glasses were cracked, and it’s been rough trying to make myself see the positive again.

Then my Mom sent me a story that led to a realization. A woman, who had been through similar experiences to my own, spent her time planting flowers in sidewalk cracks. She literally took flower seeds and planted them in the cracked cement. She took care of these seeds, and eventually – they bloomed. She took something ugly, and found the beauty in it.

This story turned my whole perspective around!

I don’t have to try to make myself see things as perfect all the time. I can recognize that there are so many ugly, broken things in the world – but there is also so much beauty! In every sidewalk crack, there can be a flower!

I used to believe that all things could be good.

After this year, I struggled to see anything but the bad.

I now know, that both things can be true. There will be cracks in our sidewalks, and that sucks! But we can plant flowers in them.  

On this blog, I’ll be writing about a lot of things – books, movies, fun things to do, and more! But the overall goal of the blog is to look for the good, and when we can’t see it – to make some ourselves.  

I can’t make the world perfect. I can’t fix every broken thing.

But I can find the beauty in it. I can look for the joy. I can plant a flower.

And so can you.