The Unexpected Truth
Not all truths arrive with clarity. Some arrive with feeling. You don’t have to recognize it to know it’s yours.
What if the next truth doesn’t sound like you—but feels like home?
Would you follow it? Would you trust the tug of something unfamiliar?
Something that doesn’t quite fit the picture you’ve painted of yourself,
but feels like a soft knocking on the door of your soul?
Sometimes we expect truth to come in familiar tones - to echo our voice, reflect our history, match our plans. But what if it shows up in a form you never expected?
What if it sounds like silence - not structured meditation, not a practice you can measure - just… stillness. The kind that slips in while you sit in your car without turning the key. No music. No rush. Just a presence that feels strangely full.
What if it looks like dough under your hands, or a garden hose in your grip, or a sewing needle in the quiet rhythm of a slow afternoon? Not sacred in the way you’ve defined it, but steady. Healing. Alive.
What if it arrives through someone you hadn’t let in before? A neighbor, a sister, a moment of eye contact that lingers longer than expected. You speak. You listen. Something shifts. And you walk away feeling lighter, like something settled where it used to ache.
Or maybe it’s joy, so unapologetic and small. Boxed brownies. A song you secretly love. A cheesy old movie that makes you cry even though you swore you wouldn’t.
And you wonder: What if joy is sacred too?
We ask big questions. We long for clear truths. But sometimes, the answers we seek don’t come as declarations. They come as invitations. As resonance. As a gentle pull toward something new.
So, if you find yourself drawn to something that doesn’t match who you’ve been, but feels like a home you’ve never been to… Don’t rush past it. Don’t dismiss it. You don’t need to define it just yet. You only need to notice it. To follow the thread. Because sometimes the next truth is not a sound you recognize, but a feeling you can’t ignore.
If something unexpected has been tugging at you lately, I’d love to hear about it. Drop a comment below or share this with someone who might need to trust their own quiet pull.
Excellent write up. Again, you strum chords in the depths. I especially loved the beautifully poetic last sentence. Amazing exploration through various examples and you finish off with amazing insightful power. Awesome!
in a way, this article desribes how my present course in life has taken shape. At first a change arrived, and after being a bit unsure, we couldnt ignore, "the feeling", with it...and turns out to be even better than expected. So following the feeling is sometimes scary, yet, better than imagined.
thank you for your great pieces.