Love Is A Comfy Sweater

Imagine a sweater, big and thick. Warm, but perhaps too warm, and too tight. Turtleneck, scratchy and too tight around the throat. Not enough to choke, but certainly enough to make uncomfortable… 

Imagine a sweater. Constrictive. Sleeves too long, so tight that it constricts. So warm it makes you sweat. It feels natural, normal. You have been wearing it your whole life. Everyone has one on. Woolen and itchy. Everyone is irritable and afraid of what they would look like without them. No one takes them off.

Imagine a sweater, with a single dangly string. Idly at first you begin to pull the string. At first it feels like an accident, but slowly, and then suddenly you begin to notice a change. The sweater is begging to unravel. Less tight now, some part of you begins to feel a sort of hope. Maybe we do not have to live this way? 

Imagine a sweater, yes is the unraveling string. Finding ways in every moment to say yes to what is, not hiding, not dissociating from what we do not want, realizing when the resistance is strong the affirmation must be equally committed.

Imagine a sweater that is not your sin but your salvation. The realization that exactly what you did not want is exactly what came to be, and in finding a way to say yes the sweater we knit becomes the love of our life.