Letter to...

What if you could write a letter to anyone who had ever had an impact on your life?

Some of those letters might be filled with passion, with thankfulness, with caring and a sense of indebtedness.

Some might be filled with anger, frustration, fear...

I've written one of these letters recently.  An exercise I was taught would allow me to move through both the grief and the hurts that were caused so many years ago.  It took me two weeks to put the words down.  It took a near emotional breakdown to get to the point of finishing it.

And once I was done, well I went to bed and slept through the night.  The emotional toll was lifted, at least temporarily, and I slept and woke feeling better.

I've allowed two very dear people to read the letter.  No one else needs to.  I don't know if those hurts are gone, but I know that I've voiced them and labeled them as done.  They may return, but I feel with less affect on my life.

So now I'm going to write a different type of letter.  One that I believe will be full of caring and compassion.  This letter will be for someone special - that has impacted me beyond what they could ever know.

Maybe it's you?!