Sunday, 27 July 2014

To the Light

Once lush and bountiful
My roots did adorn
Powerful pretty leaves
Some you have torn
But my strength remains true
No matter the games
My boldness and grace are real
Minus your scorn or shame
You cannot project on me
Your guilt nor your pain
I choose to let loose your lies
Again and again
Cultivating purity, my desire unshakable
Dropping what has wilted
Willingly I reach, stretching beyond
Everything inside myself, my eyes I lift
To the Light-beyond your shadow.


Friday, 20 June 2014

After Image

As I quest back from what I've seen and who I've been, I see outlines of someone I sometimes don't recognize today. It becomes clearer that I'm am not the same person.
Portions of me remain in times past and portions of me are cultivated forward. Sifted, milled, refined and chiseled like wheat from chafe. It hurts sometimes, this process of life.
I desire to leave my thorns behind as I attempt to bloom. Learning self acceptance and resilience as I go. I pray I can forgive myself where I fail and dare resume a desire to keep my heart open to trust.
It is in the shadows an after image remains, of a girl I know I'm not anymore, whom is invited to grow along side the woman I am becoming. I accept her and forgive her as I change, learn, feel, and love. Facing what is before me, I leave the past behind.


Sunday, 16 February 2014

The Rose of Sharon

Often when walking the desert of the soul, we find the treasures that signify life, as we are brave enough to 'see'. The point is we are reminded that even in the darkest places within us there is life. Even if just a glimpse. As we dare trek within our inner rooms of self we discover things that we do not readily expect to find. The world and mind try to convince us that some caverns within are a 'lost cause' or 'too far gone', but the fact is there is no place within us, no part left untouched by Love. 
As we grasp this and believe that every facet of our being is worth restoring, worth the effort to save, we embrace the truth that we are worth much more than we could ever imagine. More than the world teaches us we are. More than we have told ourselves we are or have been. An intrinsic beauty, a rare find. We are the rose in the desert, the lily of the valley, a bright star even in the darkest of night. 
When we truly get this, it is only then, we can love others more than we love ourselves. We see the gem buried deep underneath the labels of 'not good enough' or 'unlovable'. Learning the tools to unearth life in the midst of rejection, cultivating a heart restored. Offering implicit acceptance and the desire to keep loving those who on the outside scream "I am not worth love", by their building of walls and unflattering behaviors, while on the inside are craving Love. Inclining to Loves call.
See the true nature of Love keeps giving beyond the notion of deserving and breaks the fight of resistance within those needing it most. Stripping the hurting of pride, pruning the wounds of the soul, offering water to the parched wastelands of their mind, and breathing life. Singing over the lost until they can not help but believe they are worth becoming found. A life process we are designed for. Embraced in the heart of Love Himself. More than able to reciprocate unending Love even in the driest dirtiest desert. Transforming the untouchable hearts into unconditional truths that Love always wins.