ArticleBlog | Before the harvest: the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow
Before the harvest: the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 13.09.16
Before the harvest is here, many months before we can reap, there has to be a letting go. The ground may or may not be fully prepared, and the timing doesn’t always feel right, but there has to be, at some point, a letting go. And this process of letting go can be hard, with fingers clenched and nails biting into the palms, fists tight with sudden tension, we hold on to our seeds, symbolising what we know, what we love, all we are comfortable with and all we pride ourselves as ours.
Letting go can feel dangerous. We lose control, saying goodbye to the hold we have over our lives, our circumstances, our work, in order to set it free and trust it to the wind. We never know where it will land, this dream of ours, this idea, that painting, that opportunity, but without the letting go