This is incredible!!! I just shared this story online yesterday, and my 6 year old daughter found this heart on our walk today!!!
“I have a new heart! A new driftwood heart! This morning while walking at Ocean Beach I found this beauty. I have another wooden heart that we found in Carmel many many years ago. I used to do a lot of art with driftwood and that piece had been used for a number of projects. My photograph of it was used for listener “Wooden Heart” album cover, I used it in my driftwood portrait series, and other pieces.
My heart is in a better place now that it has been since Chastidy died 3 years ago, really since the cancer showed up 7 years ago. I have been feeling like I have a new heart. It has regained sensitivity and I have been feeling more and feeling deeper. Kind of like someone who has gone through physical therapy and has regained nerve sensitivity. I’ve been experiencing more joy, freedom, and healing in my heart than I have in a long time.
This heart has a thumb size divot in it but I am at peace with that. Sometimes shame and fear of rejection can cause us to hide our scars. But we don’t have to. I have been thinking about how even perfection has scars, pondering why Jesus in His glorified body still had scars? One thing about scars is that they tell a story, and His scars tell the greatest story of all time, the greatest healing of all time. For what is a scar but evidence of a healing? And it’s an opportunity to tell the story of it.
After we finished our walk I saw on Facebook where it had been exactly 3 years to the day, that I had put my 1st wooden heart on a ceramic holder under a glass dome and shared pictures online. It has been 3 years later today where that heart has now come out to take pictures with the new one! I feel like both my physical and my wooden heart had been behind a dome. Now taken out to display the new one. The healing that has been happening while working on The Girl With 5 Hearts! A children’s book about healing of the heart. http://kck.st/3Vl3P2U 😄
When we were 4.5 miles in I realized Catica’s heart shaped sunglasses were no longer hanging on her collar. We turn around and back tracked and what would have been about a 5 mile walk ended up being 7.72 miles, her longest walk ever. We didn’t find her heart shaped lenses, they were lost, but we did take home a new heart. If your journey to find healing in your heart is taking longer than you expected, take heart, the process of shaping our rough derelict driftwood hearts smooth takes time. It takes the trial of wind, wave, and sand. This process doesn’t happen overnight.”
