Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Reader, I write to you from a particularly tough spot in life. You’ve lived through a similar chapter at some point, I am sure.

The chapter goes something like this: your trek down a new path begins on a promising note; you welcome lessons and trials because they all point toward some greater thing; just when you find your rhythm, a harsh turn appears in the path leading to a dense mass of fog. People you once counted as friends reveal themselves to be indifferent or – heartbreakingly worse – foes. You doubt yourself and your future. It’s all unnerving and renders you untethered.

There have been precise moments in these foggy chapters of my life that have reawakened core parts of myself that had become buried by busyness and striving. These moments are sharp, intensely personal, and reveal a vibrancy I’d dulled or strike a chord I’d long forgotten. The idea of these personal moments is not a novel concept, I know. Call it an affirmation, the universe speaking, or a God wink, it’s an exp…