Yeah, it was a hard day but...

Well, I mean yeah I feel them pounding on the gate, trying anything they can to shake me. I actually mean it this time, this concept of resolve is the real deal, a genuine super power. It may seem simple and mundane, albeit difficult, but where does the line between mundane and super actually lie? I'll tell you we all have superpowers already, those exceptional things about each and every one of us are tiny shoots springing from deep roots. I just chose love as my deepest root, and apparently have the power, on some level, to choose things and have them be unshakable, just like I think we all have. Love is no simple task though, not if one's goal is to plant it to the depths it must be rooted to for my aims. Love is as strong as death. Soulmate love, to understand it and find it, requires all manner of things under the sun to become reconciled, which means the strongest most targeted attacks and the most honeyed and perfumed temptations must all be resisted.  But in the search for love everything else comes as well. Each thwarted enemy blossoms, a number of them becoming friends truer than can be gained any other way. All the superpowers one could ask for are gained as side quests, means to that singular end. Wisdom, resolve, intelligence, charisma all amplifying to a degree that can only be described as supernatural, these powers are simply Gifts of The Holy Spirit as indicated. Then inexplicable things follow suit like strength, healing, toughness, dexterity and all manner of the miscellaneous. We have barely begun, the first seedling sprouts just poking above the dust. Once the storm relents though, and it certainly will, the growth will be so rapid that clinging to any pain in the germination process will be the last thing on our minds. The bloom comes, early spring cometh, they tried their best today and I walked home barefoot and calm, staring bright eyed at the moon in sunset. This storm is passing, I can feel it in every fiber, but unlike before I am unconcerned for the next obstacle, or even the next X obstacles. It is as though a center in my mind finally switched on, and I am no longer who I was. What seemed impossible yesterday is simply done, finished. Temptations are met with a simple word "resolve." A word that means I will not be turning back, I am simply walking your way, with a smile on my face, as the worst of storms finishes raging around me. 

1/28/22 note: There was more trouble to come, but this notion of resolve still geminates in my mind, and I feel it ever strengthening. It is a beautiful image that helps keep my sights focused even at trial's darkest.