In 1988 hundreds of thousands of acres of Yellowstone National Park were burned in massive wildfires. The devastation was immense, but the lodgepole pines that make up most of the park’s forest depend on fire to release their seeds. When the rains returned, up to a million seeds per acre began to grow.
What has been the rain that allowed new life to return for you after a time of loss?
Interestingly. I don’t think of many times when I have felt that I had a loss in my life. I guess I don’t look at it that way. I suppose “losing” some friends and family to death is one instance but although it is sad, I think of it as inevitable. Yes, life is different after this kind of change but life is on a continuum and living it progresses on by itself. Because of this, there is a newness to what comes next and usually I have experienced something that shows up “around the corner” that gets me on a jump-start again.