resilience – Page 2 – face to face with the sky

choice

January 17, 2019 face2facewiththeskyLeave a comment

I no longer tolerate poison inside myself.

I no longer tolerate hatred

anxiety

shame

self pity.

This doesn’t mean they won’t overwhelm or attack me.

It means in the middle of the storm, I will hold fast to the Eye that says:

you can do better.

I no longer have patience

for soul-poison.

I am human; it may fool me for a moment.

But it will not claim me.

I will be tested. Again & again.

I don’t know how I will make it.

That’s okay. I’ll start there.

I’ll start with “I don’t know”

& give the rest up to Spirit

so that when something comes along that is not of my Divine nature,

I will recognize it.

People may not understand.

That’s the hardest part.

Keeping my Spirit under lock & key

helps me feel safe around others.

I seek to release the fear

of what they will think–

of my refusal

to settle for less

than the glory we were made for.

Now, instead of approval

I will seek soul-fire.

a trick of the light

January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 face2facewiththeskyLeave a comment

when I was a child
I played Loki the norse trickster god
in the class play
& one of my lines was:

where there’s a wall
 there’s a way.

too often
we fear the trickster.

we forget she is essential
for she teaches us how
to scale walls.

ruby slippers

January 15, 2019 face2facewiththeskyLeave a comment

when is your world

in black & white

& when

is it in technicolor?

caution:

don't ignore the technicolor.

make it your lifeline.

your rainbow iv.

who knows?

maybe there'll be a perfect convergence

of the roads between kansas and oz.

sculpture

January 15, 2019January 18, 2019 face2facewiththeskyLeave a comment

what if
you are
a ragged block
of stone
throughout which
are woven
thousands
of nerve endings

and life
chips away
with her
iron chisel
& each time
hurts
a little more

but
in the end
you are
a masterpiece

sticks & stones

January 7, 2019January 15, 2019 face2facewiththeskyLeave a comment

there is 

nothing

they can say

that will

obliterate you

medicine

January 4, 2019January 15, 2019 face2facewiththeskyLeave a comment

you may find one day you have a bruise or a sore or a rough patch somewhere. & you touch it with feather fingertips & oh, does it sting! but you breathe & you keep fingers against aching skin & you ask your body is this medicine to you? & you hear your body say yes & so you breathe into your fingertips until moments later the stinging is only a faint whisper.