The Weaver's Thread · The Temporary Guardian

 

Along the long weaving journey, you’ll often hold threads
that don’t belong to you.

They might come from someone you love—
a child’s wound, a partner’s guilt, a friend’s secret,
or even a sliver of pain you picked up
from a stranger’s eyes in passing.

These threads vibrate inside you,
like a subtle but real current,
whispering: “Is this mine to heal?”

But the truth is:
You are the thread’s guardian, not its owner.

It stays in your hands for a time
because it trusts you—your safety, your softness, your clarity.
But you are not its final resting place.

True guardianship isn’t absorbing the thread into yourself.
It is learning to hold it gently in your palms,
until it’s ready to return to the sky.

This too is an art—
To hold a thread’s pain without being consumed by it.
To witness without projecting your own story.
To create space without forcing a solution.

Remember:
Some threads are only visiting you for a while.
You do not have to become their healer,
their rewrite, or their sacrifice.
You are simply their temporary home.

And when the thread is ready,
it will leave you
with gratitude and lightness,
to continue on its path.

And in the moment you let go,
you will feel a profound kind of freedom.