Cristina hit the floor tonight on Grey's Anatomy and Meredith came running into the OR and lay down on the floor with her and talked her out of the room. I was reminded once again the power in the love of friendship. There are those friends who you know, no matter what, are going to show up... even when you are in a panic lying under your desk... at work... curled into a ball shaking and quivering and certain you cannot work... cannot move... cannot get up... ever again.
I have been rescued just as Cristina was a couple of times. And I am grateful for those friends who lay on the floor with me, didn't leave me, and let me have the time I needed to get up. Everyone needs a friend or two just like that... for just those times.
I hope that I have been that friend who shows up and stays for someone else along the way.
The song below is beautiful. The words ask questions worth asking.
Life is not always easy, and really, life is not always full of good things for us to experience. But I will say that what makes it all worth while in good times and bad is having those who love you, who show up and don't walk away when it all gets really, really messy.
"Loving you with my whole heart." In those words lie the truth and the key to "forever". And then... following, is not such a scary notion after all.
Namaste
White Blank Page by Mummford and Sons
Can you lie next to her
And give her your heart, your heart
As well as your body
And can you lie next to her
And confess your love, your love
As well as your folly
And can you kneel before the king
And say I’m clean, I’m clean
But tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
A white blank page
and a swelling rage, rage
You did not think
when you sent me
to the brink, to the brink
You desired my attention
but denied my affections, my affections
So tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Aah, aah...
Lead me to the truth and I
will follow you with my whole life
Lead me to the truth and I
will follow you with my whole life
Aah, aah...
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thanks for the update on Grey's (I was biking the beautiful highway 44 outside of Rapid City tonight) plus the perspective on the need for us to huddle, time and again, around each other! It is true. I am so enjoying your stories, metaphors and explanations about why life is what it is...I do feel blessed by your perspective and look forward to see what your daily revelation is...
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