Begin this day in whispers…
of goodness and
grace
move through the morning
in silence and ever so pleasingly
solaced
a year of unknowns, untruths and fears
a strange time, when certainly one of the best decisions made
was
to turn off the news
no more sound bites and snippets, no shocking and over dramatized cut-outs
spit out to entice
allowing the winds of distrust and disgrace
to blow past my doorstep
in lofty swirls
of
bother
a time instead to falling deeply in love again and again
with
gratitude
to manifesting a practice of loving kindness
that aims to heal and
comfort
no agendas to be hidden
no recognition to be gained
to simply open one’s heart to hold all suffering
as an ease to your burden
to yet again surrounding a dear one in love
and kindness
one who always gives of her heart and so to
receives from many
the same
by way of strength and beauty
to sending what I can in an effort to fill
that one small crack that appears in a moment despairing
to know without doubt
one is loved and held
in
gentle
kindness
to wondering if we are essentially being
scaled back
from
excess
in our suffering (and not conspiratorially controlled as some suggest)
to saying thank you and thank you and thank you again
for learnings and leanings and for
love that remains
to a walk in the garden
with the birds
to gazing up at the sky and feeling goodness
expand
far beyond all horizons
to enter, to move through
and then (even) to
exit
in loving kindness
is the path of grace
for me
thus, the new year begins,
as Rumi ~
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you
do not
go back to sleep ♥