Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Because it's a messy business

Inspiration for my Blog title came from an old Northern Exposure episode. Chris of course. He was always one of my favorite characters because his ruminations would so often spark my own. Ruminations, that is.

"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad." — Chris Stevens, Northern Exposure

Getting to that halfway point on the journey has gotten me thinking quite a bit about this business called life...  and all of the love and pain and beauty it brings.

So I'm going to use this blog as a way to explore all those confusing aspects and hope to maybe make some sense of it for myself. Maybe it will make some sense to some others as well and we can share a little encouragement along the way.

Here's to the messiness of life...