Getting to Know You

August 26, 2022 Sharon Jacobson

Getting to Know You

I was little when
my father took me to see
The King and I.
He told me it was a love song,
but when I woke up singing it this morning,
I realized that my life has been all about
getting to know the Ultimate.
This journey has not just been about
getting to know the Ultimate but
becoming who I was created to be.
There is a freedom that comes
along the journey
as I become increasingly comfortable
and familiar with myself
and my understanding of my own soul.
As we get to know each other,
the love and understanding
which comes over time
will happen between and within us as well.
May we spend our time
getting to know each other.

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Becoming

July 29, 2022 Sharon Jacobson

Becoming

I close my eyes and think about my love
and how we have managed
to grow and evolve these past decades.
I close my eyes and think of her
and I think about all she has done for me.
She has given me everything I need
to grow and evolve,
to bloom,
to shed, and
transform.
She has given me everything I need emotionally,
mentally,
physically, and
spiritually.
She always seems to know
who I am and what I need
and the nurtures me
in a way that surpasses understanding.
Then I wonder if I do the same for her
and I pray I do.
All I want is to help her grow and
for the world to see her beauty.
I want to help her have access to
everything she needs
to become all she was created to be.
When I look at her
I see a part of her that not everyone
gets to see and
I know that when she looks
in my eyes
she sees what I need
even when I can’t.
What if we each took the time
to gaze into our partner’s souls
and see what they truly need from us
and nurture each other’s souls.
What if we helped each other bloom
and share our beauty and gifts with the world
Let’s help each other
become the gift to the universe
we were created to be.

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My Armor

July 18, 2021 Sharon Jacobson

My Armor

Having watched too many reruns
of the insurrection on our Capitol building
I am overwhelmed with images of
the violence and the armor
and the battle of ideologies
being fought out before me.
Then I sat and realized that I too must
clothe myself in my own armor daily.
My armor, however, is compassion and understanding.
Every day I too fight.
I do not fight against people.
Rather I fight negative ideas
which try to invade my spirit.
I fight against any desire to invade the lives and destinies of others
by disrespecting them and telling them what to do.
I fight the desire to dominate
even if it is a conversation.
I fight the desire to forget, even if it is just for one moment,
that we have all been exposed to mistruths.
We have all been exposed to big lies,
even if those lies are different.
May I remember to dress myself each day,
in my armor which enables me to be
compassionate and understanding
of myself and of humanity.

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Perspective

November 14, 2020 Sharon Jacobson

Perspective

After all these years,
I remember the lessons I learned
at my Bubby’s feet.
She taught me it is all about
perspective.
I would look at the bottom of her needlework
and see a mess
and then she would have me look
at the top
and I could see the beauty,
the bigger picture.
It was all about seeing
the bigger picture
like looking out of a plane window,
and seeing the world differently.
Or hearing two different perspectives
on a situation.
The greater diversity of people
we have in our lives,
the more we understand
about how the Ultimate is working
in and through others.
Our perspective
grows and expands
as our understanding
of humanity does.
Perspective
is not about right or wrong
just perspective

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Silence

October 8, 2020 Sharon Jacobson

Silence

Sometimes my wisdom,
my deepest understandings
come in the midst of my silence.
they do not come when I am speaking,
but rather when I am silent,
like following the urge from within
to wake up out of a deep sleep
and go to the bathroom.
It comes from this deep wisdom
we see even in infants who
know to suck on a nipple
and be fed.
We see it in the ways
salmon tend to know
to swim upstream
or the things our bodies
tend to know how to do
without instruction.
Sometimes it is in the
silence, that we receive
the guidance and inspiration
of the Universe.
It comes when we give
the Universe our undivided attention
and exist in silence.

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Learning

August 28, 2020 Sharon Jacobson

my brother tells me
I am a perpetual student.
I love learning.
Every moment,
every experience,
everything I do,
and every one I meet
s an opportunity to learn something new.
Learning for me,
is like being given a ring of keys
to the Universe.
I learn more about the Universe,
the people in it,
the way things work,
the way they do not,
the gifts we all bring to the table,
the way the Ultimate works
in the lives of others.
The more I learn,
the more I am able to teach others,
because my understanding
is deeper and broader.
The more I teach,
the more I learn.
My students teach me
what they are learning,
and it becomes like a meal
a potluck of wisdom and knowledge
we share with each other.
Learning opens my eyes,
my heart,
my soul,
my senses, and
my mind.
Perhaps it is this
ever sense of
evolving and transforming
which makes me love
learning.

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Judge Not

December 22, 2018 Sharon Jacobson

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Judge not,
lest ye be judged.
I have heard that
repeatedly
judged repeatedly
and been judged
repeatedly.

Judgement is not
about what we know,
but what don’t know.
Judgment is about
how apathetic we are.
Judgement is about
us writing stories
about other people’s lives,
when we do not know
what we do not know.

I own I do not
know enough to make,
nor should I make
judgments or judge others

I choose to have a soul
which practices empathy over apathy.
I choose to have a heart that embodies
grace and mercy
I choose to set aside my
fiction and be open
to knowing that I do not know.
May others practice not judging me
as I practice not judging others.

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Honoring You

November 16, 2018 Sharon Jacobson

Today and all I days
I just have to honor you
for being the great I am

I do not understand you,
or the way you work,
never have and never will.
All I can do is honor you.

The miracles which I have
witnessed and experienced baffle me
They are beyond my understanding
and leave me speechless and baffled.
All I can do is honor you.

Sometimes I think I have a clue,
I think I have an insight,
but your ways are not my ways
and your understandings are not mine.
So all I can do is honor you
for being the great I am.

I wish I could explain, but I can’t.
I wish I had the words, but I don’t
What I can do is sit in the fullness
of the Mystery which is you
and honor you.

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How God Feels

August 24, 2018 Sharon Jacobson

The shame, the silence, the pain
God has felt this too

I was shamed for my enthusiasm
I was silenced and not given space
I have been told I was too kind
I was not given room to explain
God has felt this too.

I have been told I was not welcome
I was told I was too enthusiastic
I have been told I do not fit in
I have been told I am not relevant
God has felt this too

I have felt the pain, experienced the humiliation, felt the denial
God has felt this too.

I have felt the love, I have felt the joy, I have felt the companionship
God has felt this too.

I have been validated for my feelings
I have felt appreciated by others
I have known what it is like to be told thank you
I have felt the warmth of someone’s hand
God has felt this too

What I appreciate about my life
Is that everything I have felt
God has felt this too.

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To my birth father

October 10, 2014 Sharon Jacobson

Dear God,

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for blessing me with Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting through the Storm. I am not sure what I was expecting when I began this book, but I am so grateful for all that is helping me to release and the wounds that are being healed along the way. One of the things he pointed out was that whether we are physically connected to or want to be connected to our ancestors, we are. We need to heal the wounds we have inherited as part of our legacy. One of the things he suggested doing was writing letters as a form of meditational practice to our ancestors and parents. As I thought about this, I realized I had written letters to my parents before and after they made transition. However, never in my life have I written a letter to my foster parents or to my birth parents. Even though I will never meet them, at least not in this realm, I am still connected to them and in their own ways; we will always be connected. So today, I am going to begin with the one that might be the hardest, the letter to my biological father. I am not even sure how you write a love letter to someone you never knew and are not even sure you ever met or ever say me. However, I am going to do my best

Somewhere

September 19, 2014 Sharon Jacobson

One of my favorite songs is from the Wizard of Oz, Somewhere over the rainbow, as it reminds to dare to dream. It inspired me to write a poem of my own.

Somewhere over the rainbow
way up high
are the dreams that I dream of
As I walk in the light

Somewhere over the rainbow
where the angels fly
are the visoins I dream of
experiencing them in the light

Sometimes I dream of falling asleep and
waking up on a pillow of clouds
where the struggles are beyond me
Sitting on a cloud of peace
with the warmth of a blanket made of fleece

Can the eye see itself?

July 12, 2014 Sharon Jacobson

I read this quote recently by Janet Jiryu Abels that said, “You can’t face yourself or turn away from yourself because you’re it. What do you need to understand? Can the eye see itself?” So today, I just need to sit with that because I am it. I guess it is as I wrote about the other day; I have to be at peace with what I do understand and what I don’t. As don Miguel Ruiz say, “it is what it is.” We are not to make any more or less of it then it is. I am who I am. I am exactly who I am supposed to be at this very moment in time. I am it.

Is this my Prison or Ashram?

July 20, 2012 Sharon Jacobson

Have you ever thought about what the single worst thing which could happen in your life could be? if you had asked me a year ago, I would have told you I was fighting for my independence. It was a year ago this month that RGRTA moved from regular service to supplemental service, which means you virtually have no service. in real terms, it meant I could no longer leave my house by myself to go anywhere other then for a roll around the block. Every once in a while I have been fortunate enough to get a ride, but those are more of a rarity and not something I can ever count on.

Week 6, Day 5 – Using Day and Night Dreams

January 24, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

Well I can very clearly remember a dream that I had for several months. Actually, it was one of those dreams that you keep having and although it changed slightly, it would not go away. It lasted for about four months. Write down a dream. So here was my dream – I had this series of dreams that I was on the Next Foodnetwork Star. Don’t ask me who else was on it with me because I have no idea. What I do know was this that I miraculously seemed to make it to the final episode which was so cool because I was the first person to ever be on the show who used a wheelchair and because ultimately I won. I think in part it was because I had a clear culinary point of view the entire time – The Zenful Kitchen. The whole point of my show was to take the notion of being your own teacher, of being present, of being in a state of flow, of allowing your creative juices to flow, and of staying in a peaceful state the whole time you were cooking and using the kitchen as a space to relax and be at peace at the end of a hectic day. Choose the main feelings in the dream.

Week 1, Day 6 – Grace

December 20, 2010 Sharon Jacobson

Here I am at towards the end of this first week and loving that I am taking the time in the midst of grading papers to take care of me. as I sat down to read Janelle’s reflection on grace, I found myself giggling like this little school girl because she talked about sitting at a church that I had once visited, MCC San Francisco, and the pastor there was in charge of education for the denomination when I was considering being ordained through MCC. What a small world this truly is. It is moments like this, when I become aware of how interconnected we truly are. How, even when we do not know it or realize it, the Creator has this way of bringing us all together at just the right time. And some folk do not think the Creator has a sense of humor. Ok, so I was giggling until I got to the choices and I realized I do not have a book of poetry

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