Lotus Girl
Beautiful things can grow from muddy places.
What this friend is telling you
Lotus Girl's flowers open pink and perfect on top of the dawn pond — but do you know where a lotus starts? Down in the mud. The thick, dark, yucky bottom-of-the-pond mud. It grows up through all that water and opens clean and glowing. Hard stuff in your life is mud. Parents arguing. Moving away. A rough, sad year. Mud is real and it is no fun. But things grow out of mud. Courage grows there. Kindness grows there. Some of the strongest kids you will ever meet grew there.
Watch out for…
feeling embarrassed about your mud. Everybody's pond has some. Nobody blooms without it.
Try this
Name one hard thing that already made you stronger or kinder. Look at that. That is your lotus.