So often pain is an iceberg inside
Solid, cold, unmoving, life-freezing
Let it be water instead
It’s the same but the water moves
Once thawed by the warm spotlight of focused attention it is released and made to flow
Then let it go and watch it wander where it will
It will go where it needs to go
To water the dried up places
In purposeful meandering it may gush and move through you like a river
Overflowing and spilling in to all the hidden cracks and crevices
Soaking them in the healing redemptive waters that were so long frozen
Sometimes it can seem like a drowning
Sweeping you away on its torrent
But stay afloat and trust the waters own deliberate motion
Nourishing and cultivating that ground again so that fresh life can be planted
And restored, once again