love in the silence

Jan 11

A dedication to my love, my rock, my best friend, my husband, Bob Nicols. Thank you for standing by my side, loving, supporting, and holding me, during the most challenging time of my life. You know me like no other, you see me for who I truly am, and you give me room to fall and freedom to soar.

You celebrate my triumphs and healed wounds with me, cradle me in your arms or sit with me on the floor when the monsters come out of the closet and into our lives. You fight my demons with me, and slowly but surely, they are becoming more and more afraid to show themselves. We’re winning. ☘️💕🙏🏼🫶🏼

Together, we’ve harnessed the healing power of being still, in the silence, and it’s been one of the greatest gifts of my life.

Since Valentine’s Day 2006, this whirlwind romance and amazing life has been filled with love and laughter, grief and pain, joy and sadness, lessons, epiphanies and self discovery, adventures and stillness. This journey has and will continue to lead us back to our true selves, always back to one another, to a mountain higher than the last, with love stronger than before.

I chose this song to dedicate to you today, as I understand it’s not so easy to sit in the silence when your partner who you are so connected to is keeping to herself, quiet, processing, and healing.

You will never know what a gift you’ve given me, just witnessing my journey and being a safe place in a world I’m slowly learning not to fear.

Thank you for allowing the silence, where there is always love.

I've been seeking silver linings, feeling incomplete
Singing "oh oh I wish it didn't taste so bittersweet"
So enamoured, stutter, stammered, oh my voice was broke
Like a poor man stood before the queen
I tripped over my tongue before I spoke

And though I never said it with words
There was love in the silence
Even now after all of these years
You're the light in my darkness

And though I never said it with words
There was love in the silence
Even now after all of these years
You're the light in my darkness
Darling please, listen close and you'll hear
There's still love in the silence
Even now after all these long years
I feel love in the quiet

Today and always, I am yours. Much love, babe. Namaste, Your SNicols

Sherry Nicols

I stand in gratitude always, grateful for the valleys that allow the peaks, grateful for the storms that allow the sun to shine, grateful for the broken path that led me to the journey back to my authentic self and the ability to be in service to others.

I am beyond grateful for the opportunities to have been at my loved ones’ sides, holding their hands, honored to be given the gift of walking them home. I am thankful for meaningful spiritual relationships I now have with each of them, and for their guidance, visits, and UNDENIABLE messages that show me that they haven’t gone anywhere….they’re all just done with their meat puppets.

Never let one moment, good or bad, define you or your journey. Embrace the peaks AND the valleys. Roll around like a puppy in clover when you’re at the peak and learn to not give a fuck when you are in the valleys.

You won't be there for long and that climb back up is where the magic happens….your growth.

🍀🍀🍀Namaste🕉

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