M. Bridget Cook's Blog: Transformation: Light in the Darkest of Spaces

Because I CAN

Fascinating, isn't it? How one season can be filled with so much connection, joy and love, and have tremendous loss, too? For whatever reason, I've experienced the loss of several loved ones just recently, and so the holidays have been bitter-sweet in remembrance of their vibrant lives and unique personalities.

I have learned to celebrate death, however, as much as I celebrate life. In my early 20s, I nearly died. That profound experience changed my life, and caused me to see truth like never before. People often ask me why I am the (nutso, crazy) way I am, how I can love as deeply and passionately as I do, and why the hell I'm so tenacious at spending my time bringing LIGHT into very DARK places.

That near death experience is precisely why. We each have only 86,400 seconds every day. I always know it might be my last day. So whenever I get down for even an hour or two, I'm reminded each breath is really a gift! So I LOVE fully the way I love to love, and WRITE the things I love to write, and EMBRACE the light that other people bring into my life! These recent "losses" of loved ones remind me to hug my beautiful children and cry and laugh with them; enjoy my amazing husband for every beautiful moment I have with him, and especially to keep on loving the hard, human stuff and the good stuff all the same, because I AM BLESSED TO BE ALIVE TODAY! And I'm going to make a DIFFERENCE, BECAUSE LIKE YOU, I CAN.