Beautifully messy

Tonight I enjoyed seeing beautiful pictures of a friend's garden.  Greens, flowers, frogs, and one picture of the mess that happened getting there.  Empty dirt bags, pots, gloves, and other messy stuff that helped create the beauty.  Going through counseling I experienced dark, ugly, frightening, and yucky stuff.  Garbage that makes it hard for me to sleep.  I remind myself that I have to get messy before the beautiful  things come.  I need to dig out the weeds.  Add in some mulch.  Toss out the garbage.  Therapy gets messy before it gets beautiful.  A lot of things get really messy but beautiful things can come of it if we keep working at them.