A Safe Place to Cry

The past couple of weeks have been rough.  Not just for me, but for many.  For the most part, I've kept everything inside, unable to let it all out, and it built and built and built.  Saturday night I had the opportunity to attend an event that changed all of that.  I was in a place where I was surrounded by people with the same focus and goal.  As we sang and praised God, I looked around and saw people with whom I felt spiritually and emotionally safe.  In this place of love and joy, I felt everything inside me begin to come out - all the stress, grief, anger, fear, worry, and sadness burst out of me with a vengeance.  It was an ugly cry, but it was a healthy one.  For those of you that were there...thank you!  You might not have even known - in fact, I'm sure most of you didn't - but you are one of my safe havens.  You are people with whom I can let go and find my center once more.  The happy in my day was that place where God was in the midst of us and where our lives are intertwined.  #findthehappyinyourday