I’m taking a course in professional development and self care. We were left with some of Leonard Cohen’s song lyrics

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

We were asked by the facilitator to think about our own cracks and reflect on how we allow or resist light coming in.

I admit i’ve been disconnected from the assignment. Not sure what the “crack” is referencing. then I found this on the internet:

Cohen in providing a rare explanation of the song said:

“The future is no excuse for an abdication of your own personal responsibilities towards yourself and your job and your love. “Ring the bells that still can ring”: they’re few and far between but you can find them.

This situation does not admit of solution of perfection. This is not the place where you make things perfect, neither in your marriage, nor in your work, nor anything, nor your love of God, nor your love of family or country. The thing is imperfect.

And worse, there is a crack in everything that you can put together: Physical objects, mental objects, constructions of any kind. But that’s where the light gets in, and that’s where the resurrection is and that’s where the return, that’s where the repentance is. It is with the confrontation, with the brokenness of things.”

So the crack is where the imperfections lie. Where the weak spots dwell, the areas of ourselves we neglect, the places where we are stressed. cracks are areas that either pulled away or never sealed. Perhaps cracks are The breaking of an encasement, belief, behavior that no longer serves you and so it begins to break open or crack to allow light, healing to come inside and transform you. Interesting.

Where does light shine for you ? What are you breaking out of or allowing in? What needs to transform about you?

*I think this is a rabbit hole assignment.