Whilst digging a new landscaping bed, the dig was delayed multiple times with shovel tip slamming into hard, heavy, unwelcome, out-of-place objects. I simply wanted to dig a landscaping bed for pollinator flowers, shrubs, and vegetables. Life-giving goodness from the dirt.

In order for that new life to grow well, these hard, heavy, unwelcome, out-of-place objects that someone else put there had to be removed. Some were minor; some were rather large and heavy.

Together, they provide a powerful metaphor of healing.

Trauma isn't what happens TO you; trauma is what happens IN you. Trauma creates hard, heavy, unwelcome, out-of-place objects that someone else put there.

Healing awaits, often involving dirt, sweat, and support to lift a rock or three.

Here’s that bed a few months later – full of life.