“A few days before, with each labored breath, she was losing her faith until it found her. And then she remembered that the highest level of faith is trust: in hope, in revival, in a power higher than herself. And finally, with an exhale and a smile – and salty tears, she closed her eyes and felt the earth’s harmonious vibrations – from the Nambé Pueblo Native Americans she worshipped with just a month earlier to the echo of her children’s laughter from years ago…”
Read moreMay you allow your broken heart to burst open into a thousand shattered pieces,
Pick them up one by one along that dark weary path of uncertainty, love, life and loss
And trust – that the illuminating moonlight who relies on the sun for reflection
Will help you reinvent yourself into a mural of healing and peace
May that ache in your bones and quiver on your lips be still in time
Allow it all …
Read moreThe truth is, there is always hope. Allowing room for awareness, self-discovery and personal growth helps foster hope as it bridges that which was, is and will be. Allow difficulties in. Let them swirl in your mind, body and energy like an angry tide eroding the earth’s sculpted shores. Notice how difficulties change and affect you. Can you feel the moon’s gravitational pull as it aligns with the earth and sun, reinforcing each other with great tidal forces? It’s within your body – you are one with nature, so don’t fight it. Allow the difficulty. Bow to your loss. Dance with your uncertainty. Let memory find pain and become your teacher.
Read moreMay love and peace nurture every fiber and soothe every loss, whether death or change: a child’s first day of kindergarten or exit to college, an older adult saying farewell to one too many friends, the lingering touch of a lost lover, a career, a disease, a flag at half mast, a move across county, a loved one’s passing, a sad childhood, daddy’s hands across mama’s empty belly. So much loss, yet somewhere the valley meets the mountaintop and seeds of hope grow, birthing flowers with smiles wide open like dimpled hydrangeas cheering, “Yes, there you are!”
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