Tag: healing

  • Go Gently

    Go gently

    Into the depths

    Exploring with compassionate inquiry and wondering curiousity

    Hold still

    Breath Deeply

    Deeper

    Touch the core of the wound

    Embrace the cascade of flowing energy

    Pace myself

    Allow myself to linger

    Surrounding myself with the gentle stillness

    And I shall stay as long as I like.

    Then, moving forward, ever so slowly

    Into a deeper realm

    One which is untouched

    One which hasn’t been opened in a long time, if ever

    One which is groaning under the weight of being buried

    There.

    Pause, right there.

    Feel that?

    That is the hurt which has been covered up

    By shame and guilt and anger

    That is the pain of rejection

    ……..the cruelty of separation

    ……..the loss of innocence

    ……..the agony of not feeling worthy or loved

    ……..the betrayal of abandonment

    That is the vulnerable exposition of my soul

    Where darkness has resided, where it’s made its home

    I have built and impenetrable fortress

    Where light has been snuffed out time and time again

    Leaving only cold darkness and shivering memories.

    I touch that forlorn space with my inner voice.

    I try to speak of hope

    I try to coat it with courage

    I try to coax it with love to come forth into the light.

    Gentleness

    Meets the resistance

    It slowly begins to melt the fear

    And, it ever so subtly shifts the firm foundation

    Imperceptibly

    Just enough to allow a sliver of light shine inward

    Touching and embracing the essence

    Of my parched soul.

    This time, the light is welcomed rather than shunned

    It promises warmth rather than the coldness of isolation

    It gently beckons.

    Safety is felt

    Sacred space opens

    Healing enters

    And I am met by God’s loving embrace.

    Here I am, Lord.

    And He replies, “You are mine. Welcome home”.

    Written on 12/21/2021