Oh for the courage to look within
“This is harder than I thought it would be Not having hair I think it makes me feel vulnerable somehow I’ll lean into that today and see where it takes…
“This is harder than I thought it would be Not having hair I think it makes me feel vulnerable somehow I’ll lean into that today and see where it takes…
Oh Great Spirit
hold me close on this night
for the sorrows and pains and problems of the world
are intimate with my heart in this darkness.
In this terrible crisis of the Deepwater oil gusher is the telling of a story of war against our very selves that is collapsing in upon itself. This story mirrors to us the many ways our lives, life styles and very identities are currently configured for self-destruction.
Mirrored to us as well is yet an older story: Life’s invitation to itself once again to experience a transformation of identity. This is the path of the upward spiral of resilience. And it is ours personally to claim as birthright—as we each hear the awakening within.
So say, “Yes!” to Life. Within this affirmation is the awakening power of our transformation.
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