I’m one that believes that there is meaning in just about everything …
Maybe not always, and necessarily, profound meaning …
But…
if you’re one to remain open to it or to concocting a meaningful interpretation of what presents itself – then it (meaning) will often come…
Let’s take these sweet and spicy little gingerbread heart cookies as an example…
My son and I thought it would be fun and comforting to make gingerbread cookies on this rainy December afternoon while confined to our home for the foreseeable future due to contracting Covid… (le sigh) …
Yes, they all started out and were “cookie-cuttered” to be perfect hearts … however, after they encountered the 360° heat in the oven, they became more like “blobbish” shapes – some of them maybe resembling hearts?
While subjected to the heat of the oven they expanded in size, distorted in shape, and became connected to the other “heart-ish” shaped ginger-spiced dough pieces…
And how nice is that, that a tray of freshly baked cookies can be received and interpreted as a potentially profound message/meaning/symbol on this day before the last day of 2022? …
As we humans move forward into a new year of limitless potential, with countless possibilities, miracles, loves and lessons… all waiting to be met, and experienced, and life-changing in some way perhaps …
Perhaps some of us are intrepid and eager for a fresh start …
maybe others of us are hesitant and stepping into 2023 with cautious optimism, one eye closed and the other eye peeking through the fingers covering it …
and then others may not care in the least – it’s just another day of another year in the spinning wheel of life!
No matter how we move forward with all of our beautiful, crazy, flawed, imperfect humanness… if we can take a small, sweet & spicy message from these gingerbread “hearts” maybe that message could be to let the warmth of love, friendship, compassion, hope, understanding – and all the positive and life-affirming attributes that humans are capable of – expand our hearts, allowing us to touch and connect with other sweet (and spicy) hearts in 2023!
Abundant love & blessings in 2023 my friends!
“It is indeed wise to believe that something WONDERFUL is about to happen!” –unknown author
XO, Denise