A Net of Hope

Pen to paper

A powerful practice

Thoughts tumbling forth

Some marching forward in urgency

Others splash across space, grabbing onto pages displaying beauty and pain

All a practice centered in longing

A longing spilling the contents of heart and soul.

It takes strength to be brave. Sometimes being brave looks like failure. Failure, many times means you showed up, you gave it your all, and you learned a valuable life lesson. Failure sucks. It’s a hard pill to swallow. What if we learned to be brave in the midst of our failure? What if we made it okay to not be perfect? What if we talked about our failures with our loved ones, friends, kids, and students? I think we might just turn our “failure” into a “not yet”, or “that sucked, I can do better next time”. We may just wake up one day and realize, “I am brave”, and “I can do hard things”! Let’s show up for each other. Let’s show our world a different way. Let’s be brave today!

Longing

God with me

Take a moment…

Sit…

Presence…

Sit in the longing of desire

God with me…sits

Sits with me

Longs with me

Fulfills

He fulfills my longing

He fulfills my desires

Sit in the moment

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Healing feels like joy

Abounding heart beats rushing through me

Healing is a bandaid quickly ripped off only to find the wound gone

Healing is a hug, a gentle word of love and affirmation

Healing is showing up and moving forward

It is being able to look back and snatch the precious from sorrow and pain

Healing feels like hope and being fully alive

Healing is the ahhh

The Breath coursing through my innermost being.

Chasing down life

Feeling fully alive

Sitting in the moment and discovering the wonders of the heart

Wandering restless, dodging the nipping thoughts of discontentment

Feeling fully alive

Sucked into the beauty of the moment

Be still and know

An inward practice and resolve

Be still and know

Be still

Know

Sometimes life just sucks

We were not created to grin and bear it

But to feel it and move through

Don’t get stuck

Our bodies, minds and being were created to love

Not carry the stress of the world

So breath in

Breath out

Gaze upon beauty

A gentle touch

A quiet whisper

The scent of summer

A succulent bite

Be refreshed

Be

Crying openly for all to see

Laughing generously and contagiously

Failing miserably and getting back up

Being willing to change and grow

Asking for help

Saying yes

Saying no

Giving and receiving forgiveness

Being strong means showing up and being you

I am listening and waiting

Sometimes patiently

Sometimes not

It does not mean I do nothing

It means I tune into my very being

Wrestling with my thoughts and emotions

I am listening and waiting…

Stir the heart within

Awaken the sleepy place

The place that has been lulled asleep by the cares of this world

Awaken your senses

Dulled by pain and fear

At first a gentle rocking

An awareness trickles

Filling those spaces long left behind

It’s okay to be uncomfortable

It has been a while, if ever

Stir those sleepy places

Awaken your senses

I may look fearless from the outside

But on the inside I feel weak

Then I remember–

In my weakness, He is strong!