on scattering our hearts like seeds

On Scattering our Hearts like Seeds

Today on Facebook, my friend Marcy posted photos of a recent trip with her extended family.  Upon returning, she said, “I’m currently experiencing the strange sensation when your body travels faster than your heart.” I can relate to that sensation—loving people or places so much that it aches when you are apart.  

And that’s how life is. We leave pieces of our hearts scattered all over this world.  But they don’t diminish us.  They don’t fracture us beyond repair.  In fact, they are like little heart-seeds we plant in other people’s hearts.  I like to imagine that when we plant pieces of our hearts in others, or when other people plant pieces of their hearts in ours, those bits of our hearts grow up strong like a banyan tree and send down roots and grow out wider and wider and send down more roots, until they become gigantic banyan tree forests that offer shade and rest in the hearts of each other for years, and maybe even for generations to come.  

This is how we are all connected and how we all grow and flourish, how we  become more beautiful and strong and wise.