This Little Light

This Little Light

It may not have been the first song I learned,
but it is the one I remember learning
at my earliest church memory.
I have temple ones, too,
but singing this little light of mine
stays with me
because in it I made a promise to myself
that I was going to let the light within me shine.
This little light of mine,
I’m going to let it shine.
It never asked me to hide my light,
or conceal my gifts,
or deny the talents and abilities
the Ultimate gave me.
Rather it had me promise myself
to let that little light shine.
When I listen to my intuition,
I am letting it shine.
When I am honoring my ideas,
I am letting it shine.
When I write my poems and my prose,
I am letting it shine.
I know there have been times
I did not let it shine,
but then I took the covers off
I had let others put on me
and now I let my little light shine
I not only let it shine,
but I encourage it to shine as brightly as it can.
I may have had moments where I betrayed myself
in the past,
but now,
I just let it shine.
I let it shine,
let it shine,
and let it shine.

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loving my adversaries

Loving my Enemies

My mother and my Bubby
taught me I should love my enemies.
Have you ever tried to do that?
Have you ever tried to love someone
you really do not like?
You know that person who hurt you so deeply
and so consistently that you didn’t even want to be
in the same room as them.
Then you are told to love them unconditionally.
I still remember the moment it hit me that
I am someone’s enemy
I am someone’s adversary.
Yet despite this,
I am the one the Ultimate has forgiven and transformed.
I am the one the Ultimate showered with grace
and helped heal.
I am the one.
If this was done for me as someone else’s adversary,
then shouldn’t I want this
for my enemies.
They too are the creations of the Ultimate.
If I can be transformed,
so can they.

The power of the Ultimate
is not just about loving me
but about showering that same
transformative and healing power
on my adversaries
because they too
are worthy of that loving grace.

 
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Four Rooms

Four Rooms

There are 7 rooms in our house,
but we spend most of or time in 3 or 4;
our bedroom, bathroom and office
and I spend time in our kitchen.
We were talking about this the other day and
how we need to air out all the rooms,
whether we use them or not
and so we are.
This conversation reminded me of an Indian proverb.
It taught that we are each a house of four rooms
a physical room,
a mental room,
an emotional room
and a spiritual room.
How many of these rooms do you spend time in.
Do you spend time in one of these rooms
or all four?
What if we were to spend time in all four each day,
even if it is just to air things out,
like a physical room?
This week I am spending more time in my physical room
as this has been the room I have spent the least time in.
I am still spending time in the other 3
but to help myself grow and evolve
I am remembering to value
all four rooms
and not just one.

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In the Stillness

In the Stillness

So often we look for that space,
thar privileged location,
that special space,
that holy center,
as if there is a place
where we can be with the Ultimate
like we cannot be elsewhere.
The reality is that there is not one.
You are the space.
Where you are is the space.
Anything you need to know,
anything you need to see,
anything you need to experience,
can be done right where you are.
What makes a space that holy ground
is not the space,
but you and
your ability to sit
where you are
in the stillness
and be with the Ultimate.
when we learn to listen,
look,
and feel in the space
then where we are
becomes holy and
in the stillness
the holy comes to us.

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Do Unto Others

Do Unto Others

I can hear my mother’s voice now
as she continues to remind me
to do unto others,
as I would have them do unto me.
What does that look like and feel like in my life?
Do I cause harm to do others
when I do something that benefits myself?
If I had an opportunity for a better paying job,
do I not take it because someone else may need it more?
Do I accept the invite to host a party for someone,
because I would want them to do that for me? 
What if they don’t?
I come back to that teaching
and remember it is how I would want them to treat me,
now how they will.
I have to do what I know to be right,
whether others do or not.
I do not have control over the choices of others,
only myself,
This new year, as I write my last poem of this year,
may I remember to live and practice
the golden rule,
regardless of whether or not others do.

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i Celebrate Myself

I Celebrate Myself

I celebrate myself.
There is nothing wrong
with being able to stand in a mirror
and look at myself.
and say in myself I am well pleased.
I celebrate myself.
I celebrate who I am,
what I have come through,
how I have come through things.
I celebrate my faith,
my tenacity,
my compassion,
my patience,
my endurance,
and my love.
I celebrate all of who I am
and all of who I am becoming.
I celebrate my achievements,
my experiences, and
my existence.
In doing so,
I celebrate the one who
created me,
sustains me, and
maintains me.
I celebrate the love
through which I was created,
the love that flows to me
and through me.
For so many reasons,
I celebrate myself.

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Smiling

Do you always smile?
my student asked.
No, but what makes me
smile is when I find that
what I am looking for
is already in me.

It is like Dorothy wanting to go home.
She already had the power.
She already had what she needed
to go home
I have to laugh
at myself
when I realize that
I already knew
what I was searching to learn.

What if I started by looking inside
instead of outside
listening to the wisdom in me
instead of looking for the wisdom
externally?
What if I journeyed within
connected to my internal Spirit
and never had to leave home
to find what I already had?

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Forgiving Myself

Dear Sharon,

I know you strive to be loving in all you say and do. However, knowing you as well as I do, I also know that there are times that you have not done so and that you often times remember those moments. Today, I begin by forgiving myself for all the times I have harmed others or myself in any way either intentionally or unintentionally, knowing or unknowing. I forgive myself for anytime I have hurt others or myself during times of confusion. I forgive others who have harmed me intentionally or unintentionally, either knowingly or unknowingly. I forgive others for anytime they have hurt me during times of confusion. I forgive myself for allowing others to hurt me. I forgive myself for any situation that I am not yet ready to forgive in my life. I forgive myself for all the ways I have ever harmed myself. I forgive myself for all the ways I have ever negated myself. I forgive myself for all the ways I have ever doubted myself. I forgive myself for all the ways I have ever belittled myself. I forgive myself for all the ways I have ever judged or been unkind to myself. I forgive me.

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