I am

I am

I remember a time
when I thought
it was all about me
and how everything was
there for me.
I am not sure what changed that
what made me go
I am part of the world
and I need the world
as much as it needs me.
I went from seeing myself
as being in the world
to being part of the world.
I am part of the joy and the sorrow.
I am part of the trust and the distrust.
I am part of the majority and the minority.
I am part of why something succeeds
and why it does not.
I am part of the problem and the solution.
I am part of those who hear and those who do not.
I am part of it all, the good, the bad and the ugly.

I am
and each day I own
that I am more than a human being.
I am about radiating
love, l
light,
and positive energy
to all of humanity
and doing so
with no intent to
devour,
destroy, or
disempower.
I am responsible
for the vibrational energy
I radiate and
for the energy
I allow in.
Today and all days,
I focus on being the best
me I can be
as an individual
and as part of the world.
This is who I am.

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Enough

Enough

So many of the problems
I have in my life came about
because I didn’t pay attention to
what was enough.
So often we want more
because we fear
we won’t have enough.
When we have faith in
the source that provides
there will always be enough.
To maintain balance in life,
I look for the excesses in my life.
I release the possessions,
behaviors, and
ideas
which I can live without.
I stive to live my life
in a way focused on
just having
enough.

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Change

We all go through challenging times.
It is not about the challenge,
but how we go through it.
Some situations are easier to transform
then others, but together we can work
to change the world.
It may not be as easy as it seems,
but we can begin by changing
our own situation.
We can work on changing our own lives,
our own relationships,
our homes,
our work,
our personal situation.
As we work to change our own lives
we begin the ripple effect
on the world.
Like HGTV would say
change the world,
start at home.
Let’s work on being the change
we want to see in the world.

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Have I Done Any Good in the World Today

What if we checked in
with ourselves and
asked if we had done any good
 in the world today.
What if we were focused on
making a difference
in the world
and in people’s lives.
Who have I helped today?
Have I cheered anyone up?
Have I made someone laugh?
Have I done something to lighten their load?
Have I shared with others?
Have I done anything to help others?
At the end of each day,
can I say yes.
If I want to be of service,
and do what I can to
help make this
heaven on earth

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Imagine

How often do we miss
the messages the Universe
is sending us
because we cannot
see how things can
possibly be coming together
in a way that would change
the way we understand things.
When we dare to imagine,
we dare to discover a way of learning,
a way of understanding,
a way of seeing the Divine
and the ways of communicating
with us that were
invisible to us.
When we dare to imagine,
we can sense presence
of the one who is answering
our prayers
in ways that defy our own
understanding.
Dare to imagine
how the Divine is
speaking to and
through you.
You were given the power
to imagine;
use it.

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Balance

How do you do it?
Everyone seems to think
my life is in balance,
but like everyone else
it is a dance
that I constantly work at
so I can balance my 3 jobs,
time for family and friends,
time for me
and time to spend with the Ultimate.
It is not about one or the other,
rather, how I intentionally work
to stay in balance,
or come back to it
when I allow life
to throw me out of balance.
Thinking about balance reminds
me of being on a seesaw with my best friend.
She always worked with me to ensure
neither of us was the one who was always
up or down.
Although it is not always comfortable,
or easy,
I try to make time for the relationships
which are so important,
even if it means I do not
get all my work done.
At the end of my life,
it is those I love
who will remember
I made time for them
as I strove to balance my life.

How Did You Know

Did you ever just feel
like you are supposed
to reach out an send someone some love,
some light,
some positive and healing energy?
Then you do
and they say how did you know?
How did you know
I needed some love?
How did you know
I needed someone
to reach out?
How did you know
I needed to know
God heard me.
I always say I didn’t,
but God did.
God just tapped me on the shoulder
and whispered
your name in my ear
and so I sent
a basket of love, light and positive energy.
How did I know?
Easy.
The same way you know
when I needed to hear from you
and you reached out
and sent me
the answer to my prayers.

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My Heart

I have to see a cardiologist
she said and
I could feel the concern in her words
They saw a thickening 
in one of her chambers
and she kept talking
about her visit
and what they said
but the words which stuck out to me were
open
clear
strong
and full.
I know she was talking about
the physical
but I was thinking about
the spiritual
and to what extent my heart
was open,
clear,
strong,
and full.
I was reminded of a meditation
where I massaged my heart
and slowly removed
all that was hard
leaving behind
one that was soft
and so now
I am examining my heart
to ensure it is not only soft
but open,
clear,
strong, and
full.
Is yours?

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Grace

Grace

It is in the journey
to the core of our being
that we experience who we are, 
become aware of where we are
and discover parts of our being
we had forgotten or
no longer saw.
Grace is the balm
which heals the cracks
and gives us peace
Grace is what gives meaning
to that which we have forgotten,
which we consider  mundane,
and in which beauty ha emerged.
Grace is like the flowers
which grow in the cracks of the sidewalk.
We do not expect to find
beauty in the midst
of the cracks.
WE may not see those moments of grace
on a daily basis,
but when we travel inward
we see them
with a clarity
and brilliance
and stop
and give thanks
for the reminders of grace.

Looking for Good

My Bubby would remind me to
look for the good;
the blessings in a situation
and then know I am going to be ok.
it is easier to do this
when it is a personal issue,
then when it is a social justice issue.
I can see the good when
it means I avoided being hurt
or killed in an accident,
or in a hostile situation.
It is harder for me to see the good
when people are killed because
of their race,
their ethnicity,
their sexuality,
their religion,
or something which
triggers hate in others.
I hate when hate kills.
it saddens me beyond description.
Then I look at how people
are standing up,
speaking out,
coming together as allies
and I begin to see the good.
I see the good
when we talk openly about
systemic inequality,
about abuses of power,
about injustices.
I see the good
when people use their privilege and power
to bring about change,
to learn about how
we are part of the problem
and how we can also be
part of the solution.
It is in the midst of this ugliness,
that I see the good
and know that the Ultimate
sees a goodness that
surpasses my ability.
I remember how my Bubby
taught me to see the beauty
and the good
in what to me looked
like a hot mess.
So I grieve for the pain
and the suffering
but I also say
I see the good
even when it is hard
for me to see it.

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Discoveries

There is nothing I love more
than discovering something
when I am diving for deeper wisdom.
I am not a scuba diver,
but I am a wisdom diver.
I love digging through writings
ancient and modern
looking for that buried treasure
which may have gone
undiscovered.
Usually, when I curl up with a writing
I find things,
which I will use
but don’t necessarily make
me go wow.
Every once in a while,
I will discover a word,
a sentence,
a thought
a gem
someone has buried
in the treasures
spilled out before me
which are invaluable,
and change my life.
While I appreciate all
I have discovered,
it is those moments
which transform me
and stop me,
and make me just sit in
amazement of
my discovery.
I am grateful for all I discover,
but those moments,
the ones that stop me,
those are the discoveries
I remember
forever.

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Free Yourself

When you forgive,
you free others
and you free yourself.
it is a lesson bought
to me by so many teachers.
Forgiveness is not about forgetting.
it is about
setting yourself free
it is about no longer
punishing yourself,
keeping yourself in pain,
judging yourself,
or condemning yourself.
Forgiveness is about
setting yourself free.
It is about stopping
the self prosecution,
the self condemnation,
the self judging,
and all the ways
we harm ourselves and
keep ourselves in a spiritual jail.
Forgiveness
is about growth,
healing,
liberation,
transformation,
and evolution.
Forgiveness
is not about weakness,
but strength, and
setting yourself free
so you can soar.

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The Journey

it’s all about the journey.
Gosh, I hate when you say that, she said
How do you find it to begin with?
That was her question back to me.
I stopped, thought, reflected and
talked about the journey.
it’s not that there is A journey or
a right way to embark on it.
We each have our own journey,
own own path to the inner sacred self,
that inner sanctum
waiting to have the breath of the Ultimate
washed over it.
it is about learning to listen
to see,
to hear,
to sense,
to find and recognize
what is speaking to us.
There is not a right guide
or an everlasting one.
It’s about listening to
the wisdom which comes to us from
symbols,
images,
rituals,
stories,
myths,
labyrinths,
and any other form
the invisible may take
to walk with us
on our journey
to the sacred space within
where we open ourselves up
to the movement of
the One

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Spiritual Detective

I used to love mystery novels,
but now I am playing the detective
in my own life.
I follow the clues
the things I see,
the things which fall between the cracks
and are visible but not.
I follow the scents,
the sounds,
the tastes,
the textures
and all that life offers
as I work my way through
that which I do not know,
do not understand,
and wonder about in my life.
I follow the clues,
I peel back the layers,
I look at things with a magnifying glass,
to make sure I get even the tiniest of clues.
I keep on the case,
until I solve the mystery,
and know I have come
to a deeper understanding,
to a deeper relationship
with the one who sent me
the clues
in the first place.

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Becoming Beautiful

I used to think I was ugly.
that was the message I got from society
because I am fat,
because I am old
because I am not a gurly girl.
because I was looking at society’s mirror,
and not God’s.
It was my skinny friends
who began teaching  me I was beautiful.
It was when a dear friend was moving
and she wanted a picture of the gang.
four skinny girls and me.
I wanted to hide
and they wanted me smack dab in the middle.
What they said was my beauty
would last long past theirs
because mine was internal.
A friend of mine and I were talking
and her words struck me.
“Your poetry makes you beautiful.”
it’s not my poems themselves,
but what happens within me
as I write them.
Then I began to realize
that it is not what I create
whether it is a meal,
or a blanket,
or a poem
that makes me beautiful,
but the process of creating,
that helps me become beautiful
It is the time with the master of creating
which gives me time to learn and grow,
to evolve and transform.
to become more beautiful
and to let that beauty shine
through me into the world.
What do you do to become beautiful

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I’m Liking It

I always giggle
when I see a McDonald’s ad
that says
I’m loving it.
it reminds me of how powerful
my words and attitude are.
I am not where I can say
I’m loving it
about everything,
but I can say
I’m liking it.
Whatever the weather
I’m liking it.
Whatever the diagnosis
I’m liking it.
Whether I have a job or not
I’m liking it.
Whether others are loving me or not
I’m liking it.
what I have come to know is   that
it is not about others attitudes
it is about mine
and I’m liking it.
I like that I am positive.
I like it that I look for the light in others.
I like that I never give up.
I like that I am a believer.
I like that I am an achiever.
I like that when I look at myself
in the mirror, I can say
I’m liking it.
I hope you can as well.

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Embracing the Situation

Recently someone told me
If I were in your situation
I would want to die.
I remember saying
I guess it’s a good thing
I am not you.
You see I have embraced my situation.
I give thanks for it.
I give thanks for
the ways it has helped me grown.
I came to realize that
I can either embrace something and grow
or stay hurting, angry, and frustrated.
So I embrace life and grow.
I work to embrace
what I cannot change.
I embrace the crabgrass in my life
because it is easier to change my attitude
then to spend energy
hating what I cannot change.
So I embrace that which challenges me
and give thanks for the gifts

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It's not a Luxury

It’s not a luxury,
Audre Lorde once wrote.
It’s not.
I truly get it.
I know what it’s like to have
words which are fighting to come out
and speak their truth,
tell their story,
and ask to be heard,
and honored
respected,
and understood.
Being heard is not a luxury.
It is something we all want,
even if others do not understand,
we want to be heard,
to be recognized,
even if others recognize our truths
as different.
Poetry is a way of singing.
It is a way of sharing our heart,
our deepest thoughts,
and the truth we know
from our relationship
with the one who loves us
and knows us in a way
only poetry can communicate.

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Generosity

It wasn’t anything big,
the gift I was given,
but I know it came from her heart.
There is something
about generosity
which
can open you up
regardless of whether you are
the giver or the one giving.
She shared something I know she treasured
with me.
It was one of those pastries
only her mom knew how to make.
I remember how much she loved them
and yet she shared one with me
and that made me feel so loved.
It was more than a pastry,
it was a gift from her heart.

When I share with others
I think of how I felt
and how it opened me up
and pray it will do the same for others.
Generosity
is not only about what we give to others,
but the gift that comes back to us
in the process.

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Rituals

As I called a friend
to sing her Happy Birthday
I remembered why rituals are so important.
Rituals are like a thread.
They connect us to our past,
enrich our present,
and tie us to the future.
Rituals bring us together,
they help us celebrate
who we are,
what we believe,
where we come from,
and where we are heading
Rituals
remind us to gather with those we love,
those who are important,
those we have things in common with.
Rituals
tear down the walls that separate us
build bridges to unite us
and bring us peace.
Rituals
bring to the center
of our thinking
reminders of what is important
in our lives.
This is why we are intentional
about celebrating
rituals

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