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When The Universe Goes Quiet: Sometimes Rejection Is Really Just Redirection
How learning to pause during your darkest days can lead to a new season of growth
Sometimes we go through periods where life just sucks. We go through dark times where the light is hard to see. The Universe seems to have gone quiet and we wonder if we’re all alone.
To everything (Turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (Turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep. The Byrds singing a modified version of Ecclesiastes 3.
About two weeks before my mother died, I lost my job. Neither of those events were a surprise.
My mother had been battling cancer for a year, but we knew the end was near.
My office was closing down, so the staff knew the end was near.
When my mother died, the guy I was dating disappeared. Today they would say he “ghosted” me.
Everything had gone dark. Life seemed to be kicking me when I was down. I felt…
