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"How To Love a Bruised Sunflower"

By How To Love a Bruised Sunflower Published 4 years ago 6 min read
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Introduction:

As often happens in life, we go through peaks and valleys in our activities, and our distractions...

Our families and homes are a top priority.  We have obligations, moments to cherish and heartaches to bear...

Some of us have jobs which we may find either quite fulfilling and rewarding, or stressful and burdensome.

When the day's activities take away from me, I have failed to put in a place of priority and honor. 

Instead of rooting myself in positivity, I am unwittingly rooting myself into the activities of the day, which as days go will find me disappointed and frustrated.  When the heat of situations threaten, I wilt like the sunflower, my anxiety and bad mood evident to all - far from a testimony of contentment.

When the uprooted sunflower plant was initially transplanted into the hard ground, the hot sun caused it to become distressed with an appearance of dying...When we have been out of righteousness for a period of time, fiery trials elicit responses of dismay, anxiety and even disobedience - giving the appearance of a spiritual death...How true is that in life, when we are deeply rooted in righteousness, fiery trials may come our way, but instead of being defeated, the trials actually strengthen us, growing our faith and trust further.

In my year walking with restored faith, I have tried adapting to my circumstances, making sure that I have found time to spend studying the word and way. I'm not sure why in this season of my life, it had taken me so long to establish a new study time that works for me.  Many excuses are popping into my head as to why, but this isn't about excuses, it is about how I will move forward to ensure meaningful time in the Word.

I have found that the more water I drink, the more thirsty I become.  I have also found this true of the ord, the more time I spend studying the way and word, the more I crave it!

May we all be like the sunflower, deeply rooted, reaching for the stretched skyline.

Surrender Your Heart ❤

1.) Surrender Your Heart ❤:

Love is about surrendering your affectionate sentiments, and baring your naked mind, body and soul. It is trusting your heart in the hands of the one who has promised to take care of it. Trust is a building block we must acknowledge in any experience we commit ourselves to. It is the establishing of a standard to be upheld. A shared understanding between partners that allows room for true vulnerability. In trust we offer faith and consideration when we are presented with doubt and uncertainty. We embody respect if we are ever tempted by desire. Respect for not only our partner, but ourselves and the relationship we have committed ourselves to.

Break Down Your Barriers🚪

2.) Break Down Your Barriers🚪:

Love invites us to break down barriers that shield us from previous pain felt in the past. Barriers can also simultaneously shield us from experiencing some of life's best experiences.

Love invites us to try again. Our past does not define us, but instead facilitates the story of where we are coming from. We are not bound to living in our hurt when we can learn from it. As our experiences mold and shape us, like gold that is tested in fire, we come out refined and developed by them.

Love was never meant to be safe or measured, so love irrationally...Imagine jumping . of a cliff without considering consequence...

We cannot love in fear, nor can doubt where trust resides - so when we decide to love we must submit ourselves to it. Immersing ourselves in the complete, complex experience.

Love is uncomfortable. Like the feeling you'd get before jumping off a cliff into water, we are anxious every time. Nevertheless we jump, opting for the experience of meeting what awaits us at the bottom. We immerse ourselves into the experience as we would water after the fall, and though we are faced with varying feelings of fear, excitement, and thrill - in time we learn how to swim.

Love Unconditionally 🥰

3.) Love Unconditionally 🥰:

In life the storms will come but we weather them by building our relationships on solid foundations. Love was never meant to be easy, but that is why it is worth the effort. There will be days when we will not be ourselves, the inevitable tragedies and pain that will find us. In deciding to love someone we acknowledge this truth and face whatever life presents as a unified front.

We offer love not for what we can gain but because we have it to give. We give without incentive, showing kindness in the face of adversity and offering understanding when we want so desperately to be understood.

Love is not transactional. It is unconditional.

Existence was crafted from the fiber of it, this world is a reflection of precision and care. In acknowledging this we realize there is love all around us, all the time.

We know then that this world exists in a harmony of codependency, and man is not exempt from the responsibility of rooting his every intention in love.

Bruised but not Broken🤕🚯

4.) Bruised but not Broken🤕🚯:

You must learn how to approach chaos without fear and the wholehearted belief of knowing this life does not happen to us, but for us. We grow from every experience. In the event that love breaks you, Let it break. Do not close yourself off or shut yourself down. Your heart will be shaped and reshaped but in the end, it will still be yours. Over time we are changed, molded, reshaped, broken, rebuilt into something and someone new and these cycles will continue to repeat in order to make us who we are. It is why we are special, it is our experience and perspective that make us unique.

Love is specifically paying attention to the smaller details of the bigger picture, it also requires deliberate effort and focus. It invites us to understand someone not only for who they are to us, but who they are on their own. We all have our individual paths in this life, it is important that we set our own intentions, aspirations and dreams to better gauge whether or not our relationships assist or derail our journey to them.

Acclimating Adaption🙇🏾‍♀️🙇🏽‍♂️

5.) Acclimating Adaption🙇🏾‍♀️💕🙇🏽‍♂️:

As humans we are blessed with the skill of adaptation . It’s kept us here for eons . You will adapt if nothing else, you will definitely adapt. It is written in our genome, we will always meet change with development. And so we invite it with open arms, allowing ourselves the full experience of life while we are here. Indulging all the lessons life will offer knowing it will always be alright in the end.

In trust we offer faith and consideration when we are presented with doubt and uncertainty. In understanding this for ourselves we begin to appreciate not only the surface but the world of perspective, insight, and unexplored potential within us and the everyone we love.

"How To Love a Bruised Sunflower"

A unique way of learning how to love yourself, understand your pain and how to heal submersed in positivity, love and confidence...

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How To Love a Bruised Sunflower

Acquiescence

"How To Love a Bruised Sunflower"

A unique way of learning how to love yourself, understand your pain and how to heal submersed in positivity, love and confidence...

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