Keep holding on…

To those who have loved and lost keep holding on……

Sometimes I underestimate love
and it’s cost..
and streams of sorrow enter me…
Have I not been faithful to love and it’s biding?
Have I not immersed myself in its flow?
When the wonders of this Earth stand still
and I’m shattered again by loss,
I will look into the dark waters of my soul,
where grief erupts and my belief falters,
I will see in the mirror that is me
the truest meaning of my existence!
That to love is to risk everything,
to throw caution to the winds.
Sometimes even to sail on seas
of unrelenting sorrow,
and yet to hold tightly to the bow of belonging.
As tempests rock me back and forth,
through the veil of my beloved
I touch transcendent beings.
They bid me travel with love as my rudder
knowing full well
that love will transfigure me
and I will be kept afloat
by forces greater than myself.
And my Lord, my light will stand on the waters of my despair,
when the storm is too cruel for me to bear.
For he fashioned my soul for longing,
He fashioned my heart to be shaped by love,
so that I cannot exist without it.
For if I guard my heart against
the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune,
the beat of my heart will grow
weary and I will shrink and diminish
and become unrecognisable.
For to love is to let go of everything,
to be sent by gale force winds to truer places
than I’ve ever known.
To risk the brutal pain of seperation.
My fleshy heart will find a way to still beat.
For it remains formed by eternal love,
and to that place it will always return.
For love never dies….

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Silent Sunday

if you should find yourself complaining
and discontent
go out into fields of happy flowers
and see how they follow the sun
see how their faces glow at midday
like sun worshipers
dancing in the gentle breeze
and let blessings fall
like blossoms all around you  #Rumi
in gratitude
kneel on the soft ground and be thankful
for you are wonderfully made
He who has placed His favor on you
and gives you new mercies everyday…..

Six word Saturday

revolving in harmony with all things

Heaven touched Earth

“May all the Angels be your sheltering and joyful guardians.”― John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

Heaven touched Earth with mystical light,
standing in the gap,
I beheld ethereal sights.

Between here and eternity,
God is glorified,
by transcendent beings
whose love is amplified!

Celestial
messengers,
encompassed by light,
golden orbs of worship
praising
day and night!

Within mindfulness their comfort and their form,
return equilibrium,
and hold me through each storm.

In joy and sorrow,
they succor me when I weep
guardians of miracles,
guide me in my sleep…..

 

Calling all Earthlings

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
-Dalai Lama”

Let’s shout it on the mountain top,
tell it to the wind,
call the flowers to dance with us,
e’er our light be dimmed…

We’ll be the peacemakers,
with mercy as our guide,
speaking in streams of kindness,
going against the tide..

Calling all Earthlings,
let’s restore broken lives,
in loving one another,
Earth may survive!

image courtesy of Pixabay

Wordless Wednesday

Lost in my own reflection…

“Knock, And He’ll open the door
Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rum

I got lost in my own reflection,
and fell behind in my admiration of You.

You who endured my delirium,
read between my lines,
felt my heartache,
breathed for me when I could not,
suffered my silence,
understood my ranting,
brought calm to my chaos,
dressed my wounds,
comforted me in affliction,
sensed my introspection,
and brought me back from the brink of suffocation.

You who were an anchor when I could hold on no more,
found me when I was lost.
You considered me worthy,
clothed me with loving kindness,
illuminated my darkness,
and transformed my pain into radiance.

It is in Your light that I live and move and have my being….