Life is like a Patchwork Quilt

It still amazes me when you least expect it - how words in a book you have browsed through before, catches you in a different time. This happened when a read a coffee table book at my counsellor's office. After reading it, then sharing it with my counselling - we realized that it like a theme we can use in my healing - finding closure to my "traumas".

This poem was written by Elizabeth Ryan Decoursey:

Life is like a patchwork quilt
And each little path is a day,
Some patches are rosy, happy and bright,
And some are dark and gray.

But each little patch as it's fitted in
And sewn to keep it together
Makes a finished block in this life of ours
Filled with sun, and with rainy weather.

So let me work on Life's patchwork quilt
Through the rainy day and the sun --
Trusting that when i have finished my block
The Master may say "Well done."
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Though I wished I didn't have to go through all those different traumas/challenges - but if you stop and think about - I would not be the person I am today if I HADN'T gone through those different traumas/challenges. It will be interesting to see how my Life's patchwork quilt unfolds.