Picture your at this lake and you’re sitting on this dock/porch. It’s sunny, it’s summer-ish, there is a light breeze and suddenly, you see something in the water. Where did that come from? It came from the bottom. It came from the other side of the lake. It came from above. When we were in Panama, on the Panama Canal in a makeshift flat boat of wood and a motor, there were trees sticking up out of the water. It’s because there was land there. A entire forest. Also, 25,000 lives were lost to “build” it. But that is not where we are going with this.

It’s almost summer and our bodies are made up of water. Things surface. Things surface in our bodies and in our minds. I want to talk about things that surface in our minds and in our lives seemingly out of nowhere. It could be a trigger or it could be blockage. It could have been stuck from ages ago. It could be good things or not so good things. Let’s deal with the not so good things.

This week I have had HUGE NOT GOOD AT ALL THINGS resurface in my life. Funny part is it has never really left. It’s just that I have been pushing it down to the bottom of the lake. Winter, the freezing period in your life when things happen, can only remain frozen for so long. You can only NOT DEAL, NOT TALK ABOUT IT, for so long. It SPRINGS forth in many ways in your life from time to time or it becomes a SUMMER in your life all the time. The time has come for me to deal with this thing even if I can’t fix it or resolve it to my satisfaction, the truth needs to be spoken. The truth needs to be told.

The truth, the facts, need to be presented in your life. The blockages need to be acknowledge before they can be removed, resolved, or dealt with. When they float to the top, own their own or due to a trigger, it is saying, “Hey, I am still here. Would you like to deal with me? Would you like to heal me? Would you like to talk about it?” You may say, “No thanks.” But some things that float to the top begin to stink up the entire lake. Some things at the bottom, begin to contaminate the entire like. There’s no swimming for enjoyment in that lake. There is no safe place in that lake. No one wants to come to that lake and things die in that lake.

Letting go is a process. Healing is a process. This June, know that “stuff” will surface. Your stuff and other people’s “stuff”. Are we stinking up the place or are we beginning the process of dealing with our stuff and how we respond to other people’s stuff? How much of their stuff affects our lives? Hmm. Something to think about.

~Nikki