As you know I don't generally use quotes in my journals, but here's another one I came across which just happened to speak into where I am right now.
This is another very simply made page - a painted background to which I began to add a border of collage bits and pieces.
And here it is with the border finished ... at which point those flowers from last week showed up again ... which can only be a good thing, right?
One of my Modigliani ladies also made her way onto this page, complete with a crown from my (much too large) rubber stamp collection. I was bowled over when I came across this Jung quote - I suppose its to do with a change of attitude from victim with no power or choices, to something much more positive and powerful, even though you are basically in the same place? This is something I remember from CBT, that you can't change what has happened, but you
can choose how you react to it. Lately events have had me down in the darkness, but (with God's help) I am clawing my way back out of that dark hole ....
So here I am, broken and wonky, but with a (mostly) undefeated spirit, ready willing and able to make what difference I can in the world. I know that inevitably I'll visit that dark place again before I'm done, because I'm only human, and anyway sometimes you
have to shed the tears before you are ready to rise again. I think the word "undefeated" might have come from the Invictus Games, which were on at the time. And for now, I am!
Nearly finished this purple journal I've been working in since last December, so have been preparing the next (number 14!) and will be starting out fresh in a few days. Hope that's another metaphor for my down but undefeated state?
