tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76573750768854410702024-03-23T03:16:49.797-07:00The Eternal DanceOur stories intertwine . . . overlap . . . run into each other, as we chase the dreams in our hearts; the longings of our souls.
As we share our stories, we find ourselves singing along to the same song; melodies of life and love; pain and suffering.
Words of truth reveal our shine and sparkle, and reflect that of others. I share my bits and pieces here, in hopes that others will recognize the shine within themselves, as the light reflects.Lynellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08410125760752454381noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657375076885441070.post-31305162863081701102020-03-03T19:40:00.002-07:002021-05-12T11:55:46.996-07:00We are innocent. We are holy. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I received a vision</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">about the day I was born</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Many loving Beings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">greeted me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One by one they held my feet, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">bowed their head, and said,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"Welcome. I love you. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I honor your life journey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You are innocent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You are holy."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The room was filled with</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Love, joy and celebration</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And I knew</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That we have all received this greeting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That we are all honored </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for our journeys on this planet. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We are known</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We are seen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We are loved </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We are innocent. We are holy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This is your calling</div>
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This is your calling</div>
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to love yourself</div>
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to love yourself</div>
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you are perfectly you</div>
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you are perfectly you</div>
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no matter how you feel</div>
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no matter how many times you think you've failed.</div>
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you have not</div>
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you are perfectly you</div>
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you are perfectly, brilliantly you</div>
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Love is forgiveness<br />
Love is non-judgment</div>
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Love is compassion</div>
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Love is kindness<br />
Love is grace</div>
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This is your calling</div>
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This is your calling</div>
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To love yourself</div>
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To love yourself</div>
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You are beautiful</div>
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You are seen</div>
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You are precious</div>
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You are loved</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Fractal image: https://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fracthumbs.htm</span></div>
<br />Lynellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08410125760752454381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657375076885441070.post-64630326941080161992020-02-21T12:51:00.001-07:002020-11-13T13:19:54.136-07:00Deep Roots<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">One Love. One Light. One Goodness <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">From which we all come<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">To which we long to return <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Hunger and desire<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">send out tendrils </span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: large;">like roots </span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: large;">burrowing into soil</span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Seeking comfort and sustenance <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Shallow roots find ready pleasures<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Temporary relief<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Easy and sweet<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="center" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet the ache grows<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">The soul knows the difference<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">As shallow roots are released<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Deeper roots can begin to grow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Finding connection to true heart<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">True love<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">True healing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">True Source<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Clinging to the immediate<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Muffles deeper needs and desires.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">In the letting go<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">We receive<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Can we release that which no longer serves us?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Can we love ourselves enough?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Can we love and hold each other <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">through the losing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">the grieving<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;"> the finding<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">the knowing? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><span style="font-size: large;">more </span></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif" style="font-size: large;">than this?</span></div>
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Lynellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08410125760752454381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657375076885441070.post-29890432767176909082020-02-03T20:46:00.001-07:002020-02-24T16:11:15.199-07:00Opening Heart<div style="text-align: center;">
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Lynellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08410125760752454381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657375076885441070.post-62859911776052681302019-09-22T10:43:00.002-07:002020-11-13T13:26:03.900-07:00Garden of the Heart<br />
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My heart is filled with seeds<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seeds of love, joy and peace<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seeds of anger, fear and despair<o:p></o:p></div>
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Which do I water?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Which do I feed? <o:p></o:p></div>
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My heart flows with energy<o:p></o:p></div>
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The light of attention brings growth and strength <o:p></o:p></div>
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The darkness of inattention weakens and kills<o:p></o:p></div>
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What do I water? <o:p></o:p></div>
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What do I feed? <o:p></o:p></div>
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I open my heart to all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I see the longing <o:p></o:p></div>
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The longing for goodness<o:p></o:p></div>
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For justice<o:p></o:p></div>
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For peace<o:p></o:p></div>
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I speak hope<o:p></o:p></div>
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I speak joy <o:p></o:p></div>
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I speak life<o:p></o:p><br />
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All of our hearts are filled with seeds<o:p></o:p></div>
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Which do we water?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Which do we feed? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our neighbors' hearts are filled with seeds<o:p></o:p></div>
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(and everyone is our neighbor)<o:p></o:p></div>
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What do we feed?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Can you notice? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Meet anger with kindness<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hatred with love?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Knowing the seeds of peace reside in every heart <o:p></o:p></div>
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Waiting to be seen, watered and fed?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No simple task<o:p></o:p></div>
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No simple task, this gardening of the heart</div>
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Understand.<o:p></o:p><br />
This is real</div>
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This is very real<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your kindness<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your love<o:p></o:p><br />
Your compassion<br />
Your smiles</div>
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Change the world<o:p></o:p></div>
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One seed at a time<o:p></o:p></div>
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One heart at a time<o:p></o:p><br />
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If you're smiling right now<br />
You are watering some good seeds<br />
If you're smiling through heartache and pain<br />
Even more so<br />
Bless you, bless you, bless you</div>
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May all beings be filled with loving kindness<o:p></o:p></div>
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May all beings be free from suffering<o:p></o:p></div>
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May all beings be well<o:p></o:p></div>
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May all beings be at peace<o:p></o:p></div>
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May all beings be joyful<span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her beautiful smile shines</span></div>
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From photo after photo</div>
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She remembers</div>
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That she knew</div>
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Always knew</div>
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She didn't belong</div>
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An expert chameleon shaping herself to fit</div>
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Blend</div>
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Belong</div>
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The internal outsider</div>
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Sure that her otherness was sensed</div>
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Hiding behind the laughter and smiles</div>
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Imposter</div>
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Lie</div>
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Brittle</div>
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Separate </div>
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She looks through those photos </div>
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And knows</div><div style="text-align: center;">Understands </div><div style="text-align: center;">. . .</div>
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She always belonged</div>
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Always</div>
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Sweet, sweet child</div>
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There are no lines</div>
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But those we imagine</div>
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Those we were given and believed</div>
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The lines and divisions </div>
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Are the lie</div>
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Never you</div>
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Never you</div>
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Calm</div>
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Calm<br />
Belong</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Those barricades can only hold for so long . . .</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>She began to breathe</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>To breathe at the thought of such freedom</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>She stood and whispered to her child. "Belong"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>She held the child and whispered</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>With calm, calm; "Belong"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">R.E.M</span>. <span style="font-size: x-small;">"Belong</span>"</i></span></div>
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Every morning</div>
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Every morning</div>
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She woke to the ache in her chest</div>
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Day after day</div>
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Week after week </div>
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Year after year</div>
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Like an old friend</div>
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Waiting to greet her</div>
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A perennial knife in the heart</div>
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What am I afraid of?</div>
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She protected herself</div>
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Encasing what she feared</div>
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Within a thick, hard shell</div>
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Never to be seen<br />
Only felt</div>
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What am I afraid of? </div>
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Then, one day</div>
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Her eyes were opened</div>
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And she laughed<br />
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There is nothing big and scary</div>
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I've only feared myself! </div>
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Afraid my heart</div>
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Might lead once more to suffering and ruin</div>
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Not to be trusted.<br />
Not smart enough</div>
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Not strong enough</div>
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Not good enough<br />
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Oh, dear heart<br />
Oh, precious one<br />
The heart is the wellspring of life<br />
You can trust your true voice<br />
Listen!<br />
It is goodness and love<br />
Be not afraid<br />
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And her heart melted open<br />
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My heart melted open<br />
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I am falling in love with myself<br />
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You were an orphan on this planet</div>
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Abandoned by your father</div>
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Abandoned by your mother</div>
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Alone</div>
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You fought</div>
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Oh, how you fought</div>
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Building internal strength</div>
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Pushing, stretching, reaching</div>
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Creating a life for yourself</div>
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Embracing color and light</div>
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Speaking your truths</div>
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Feisty</div>
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Playful</div>
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Vibrant<br />
Exuberant </div>
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Alive</div>
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Through the years</div>
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You fought the monster in your head</div>
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As it worked to break you</div>
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The disease given you by your mother</div>
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Another demon</div>
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Promised to destroy you</div>
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Bit by bit</div>
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Day by day</div>
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One day</div>
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Unexpected love showed up</div>
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Seeing past the darkness</div>
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To spectacular, amazing you</div>
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A dream you'd not dreamed.</div>
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You stepped in</div>
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Into goodness and love</div>
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Into sweetness</div>
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And magic<br />
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Cocreating new life<br />
Together you loved and welcomed<br />
Your many fur babies<br />
Into Catlandia<br />
A place of refuge and safety</div>
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But</div>
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The monster and demon</div>
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Were too much</div>
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We didn't see</div>
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We didn't know</div>
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You have slain your monsters</div>
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And we are left</div>
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With an empty space </div>
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Where once there was sparkle and light</div>
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All we can do now<br />
Is cherish what was.<br />
Carry your essence with us<br />
And look for the sparkle in others<br />As they grapple with their own<br />
Monsters and demons<br />
Your love and light<br />
Your true essence<br />
Will remain<br />
Part of us<br />
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Our hearts are one</div>
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As we play our drums</div>
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Guitars, voices, shakers and flute</div>
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Cowbells, tambourines and dancers, to boot</div>
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Many voices become the one</div>
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Joining. Flowing</div>
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Shining. Glowing. </div>
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Taking us places</div>
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We cannot go alone</div>
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Some songs may seem sweeter than others</div>
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Some beats might seem a bit . . . off<br />
But</div>
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All are part of the one song<br />
in which we live</div>
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I am new here</div>
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You welcome me</div>
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With kindness and love</div>
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You tell me my voice belongs</div>
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That I have a part in this song</div>
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Thank you</div>
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Our hearts are as one </div>
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As we sing our songs</div>
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Dance our dances</div>
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And beat our drums</div>
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We are One Heart Beat<br />
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Constructs, walls, paradigms<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jumbled and twisted<o:p></o:p></div>
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Push to the surface<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fractured<o:p></o:p></div>
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Forming a protective, brittle shell<o:p></o:p></div>
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Darkening the eyes of Soul<o:p></o:p></div>
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Forms<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once solid, unbending and unforgiving <o:p></o:p></div>
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Are now </div>
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Lifeless<o:p></o:p></div>
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Powerless</div>
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Vestiges of old thought patterns<o:p></o:p><br />
Old ties</div>
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Obsolete and impotent<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Lynellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08410125760752454381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657375076885441070.post-8783745522854742252016-11-14T10:26:00.001-07:002023-11-11T12:39:59.337-07:00Dancing With Mom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I danced with my mom tonight</div>
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Music played</div>
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People sang and clapped</div>
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Behind it all</div>
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Me, Mom and her wheelchair</div>
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Moved to the beat</div>
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I skipped, hopped and strolled</div>
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Spinning my mother around</div>
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Humming and singing along</div>
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Mom's voice sometimes joining mine</div>
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<i>"I'm the happiest girl in the whole USA!"</i></div>
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"Mom, isn't this Dolly Parton?"</div>
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"Yes"</div>
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(turns out it was actually Donna Fargo)</div>
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<i>"Swing low sweet chariot, stop and let me ride."</i></div>
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"The bass part in this song reminds me of Uncle Loren."</div>
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"Yes, it does."</div>
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<i>"Que sera, sera"</i></div>
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<i>Elvis</i></div>
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<i>An actual Dolly Parton song</i></div>
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<i>YMCA</i></div>
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<i>Cotton Eyed Joe</i></div>
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On and on the music played. </div>
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On and on I moved my mom </div>
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In our own little dance</div>
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Every word she is able to utter</div>
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Is precious</div>
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Every time she smiles</div>
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A gift</div>
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I press the side of my head to hers</div>
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As we roll along</div>
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"I love you, Mom. I love you."<br />
"I love <i>you!</i>", she replies.</div>
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Lynellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08410125760752454381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657375076885441070.post-89420484521176035702014-11-04T11:52:00.001-07:002020-11-08T13:23:32.892-07:00River's Edge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I sit at the river's edge</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Deep currents and eddies</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">of hope</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">of love</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">of promise</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">To draw you </span><span face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">to me</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">It is not yet time</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I am not the one</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I stand at the river's edge</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Dark, churning waters</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Carry you away</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I release the rope</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Relinquishing you to the care</span></div>
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<span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">of true Love</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">A glowing heat that can be blocked </span></b></span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b>but not contained</b></span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b>Emanates through all beings</b></span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b>as love, <span style="font-family: inherit;">thought, longing</span> and peace.</b></span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b>All human longing . . . </b></span></i><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Mark Nepo</b></i></span><br />
<i style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>The Book of Awakening</b></i><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">All I want</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Is the One</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">The one thing</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I see you</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I fight past the veils</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Struggle through illusions</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">of separation</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I see you</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Your brilliance shines</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Reflects, resonates</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Pierces my soul</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">One soul seeing another</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I am you</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">You are me</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">There is only One</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">One hunger</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">One Source</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">One Voice</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Speaking each and all</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Singing through a million throats</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Splashing myriad canvasses</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">With color and light</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"> Beauty</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I see you!</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">You see me</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Speak me</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Sing me</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">For what do I yearn?</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">What is this longing?</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Where are you, my Love?</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">My Life?</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">See me</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">See me</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Expressions of love vibrate with the One Love</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Representations of life resonate with True Life</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">We fixate on what feels good, looks good, tastes good</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">These are</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Through which light shines</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Gateways</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Through which to pass</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Reflections. Expressions. Guides. Avenues.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Focus on satiation</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Feeds the hunger</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Focus on Light</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Draws you through and in </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">There is no shame in the longing</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">The grasping </span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">The wandering</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">All is rooted in the one desire</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">the one hunger</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Common to all</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Strung out</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Lost in our addictions</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Temporary cures fail</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">We fall</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">and open our eyes</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I delight in the spark</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I see in you</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">For it is also mine</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I see you</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I see myself</span><br />
<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I was never lost.</span></div>
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<i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b>The thing that has been - it is what will be again,</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b>and there is nothing new under the sun.</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b>both of which we are afraid of.</b></span></i></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>They are always there in some form, </b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>waiting to be tamed and needing to be forgiven.</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i>Radical Grace: Daily Meditations, Richard Rohr</i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">We close our eyes</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Visiting the dream</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Tentatively touching remembered magic</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Impotently grasping for the life that was; </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">That was to be</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Please, no more.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Please no more poorly given love</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Love poorly received.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Hurts unintentionally caused</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I am the leper. I am the wolf.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #351c75;">Fear bars the giving. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #351c75;">The receiving.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">There is nothing outside of myself which completes.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">No sweet words.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">No right touch.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">No one's "faith" in me.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">No perfect understanding of "truth"</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">No perfect life.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">No place where children do not suffer.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">No place where horrific maladies do not strike.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Where the right relationship, the right drug,</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">the right anything,</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">fixes all.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Always, always, always</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">The Source of all I need and desire</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Dwells within.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Nowhere else</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">There are no new answers</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">No matter how badly I want a quick fix</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">(and sane explanations for the insanity)</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Just discovery/rediscovery</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Of what's always been.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Sink down</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Sink<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"> </span>into the solid embrace</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Release the death grip</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Preventing your fall</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">It's okay</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Okay to fall away from self made protections</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">(illusions - delusions)</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Structures of identity and value</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Which inevitably crumble and collapse</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Sing me asleep</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Hit me awake</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">This perfect life</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Carries me down and in</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Friction r</span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">emoves the lies</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Bit by bit</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I remember again</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"> to s</span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">mile </span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">through my aching heart.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Yes!</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">This is life.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Perfect life.</span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">For there is no other.</span></div>
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<a href="http://energyartistjulia.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">Butterfly Transformation by Julia Watkins</a></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>The path of descent is the path of transformation. </i></b></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>Darkness, failure, relapse, death, </i></b></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>and woundedness are our primary teachers, </i></b></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>rather than ideas or doctrines.</i></b></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i>Richard Rohr</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; text-align: left;">Listen to </span><a href="spotify:track:3sJyR3wLBJAmORBFh9wJgR" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>The Perfect Life</i></b></span></a><a href="spotify:track:3sJyR3wLBJAmORBFh9wJgR" style="color: #741b47; text-align: left;" target="_blank"> </a><span style="color: #741b47; text-align: left;">by Moby</span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Oh, we close our eyes</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>The perfect life</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Is all we need</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>You opened up when you had me in your hands</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Slipping far away with the world at your command </b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>You sing me to sleep and then you hit me awake</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>It's a perfect life, a perfect life</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>I only want to be here when you're by my side</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Oh I believe now, I'll love you 'til I die</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>You will sing me to sleep, you will hit me awake</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>In the perfect life</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Perfect life </b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Oh </b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>We close our eyes</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>The perfect life </b></i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Life is all we need</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>Little Mikey steps everywhere</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>Knives in his pockets and bullets in his hair</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>He has nothing to live for</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>Nothing left to say</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>He's locking all the doors</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>to keep the older wolves at bay</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>Spoons and foil are all he needs</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>A bed and some china, a lighter and some speed</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>He will sing you to sleep and then will hit you awake.</i></b></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>In the perfect life, a perfect life. </b></i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><b>Oh </b></i></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>We close our eyes</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>The perfect life</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Life i</b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>s all we need</b></i></div></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Oh </b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>We close our eyes</b></i></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>The perfect life</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Life i</b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>s all we need</b></i></div></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Oh </b></i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>We close our eyes</b></i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>The perfect life</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Life i</b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>s all we need</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Oh </b></i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>We close our eyes</b></i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>The perfect life</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Life i</b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>s all we need</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117);"><b><i>The perfect life</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117);"><b><i>The perfect life</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117);"><b><i>The perfect life</i></b></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>All we need</b></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>(Powerful words written by a friend who is grappling with the effects of Alzheimers)</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ripping, shredding<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">tearing from the inside out<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">fraying at the edges ~<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The brilliant mind slowly parts<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">from the glorious, yet fleeting tent<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Magnificent vessel of Your creation<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of the Potter’s wheel<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">from that which was.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vibrant colors blended and edged<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with gold, to serve at your eternal table.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I recently returned from a visit with family which included my mother, who has Huntington's Disease.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The first week back I was engulfed by a deep, heavy darkness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Having a history of depression, my first thoughts are,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">"Here I go again. What's wrong with me? How can I fix it (me)?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">A friend said, "I think you are grieving."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Oh. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Right. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Maybe I'm 'normal'? Not needing to be fixed at all?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">My mom isn't who she was. She won't be (in this life). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">It's a special sort of sadness. This loss of what was; of who was.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The mind and body altered. Diminished. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">A brilliant and beautiful mind fighting through a fog.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Striving to locate and hold onto thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Working to get the brain and voice to cooperate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Oh, sweet, sweet mother of mine</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I weep because you were beautiful</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I weep because you seem even more beautiful now</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Strength fighting through weakness</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Tender expressions of love</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Pure. Simple. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Pure and simple.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">No pretense (because there can be none) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Why does it hurt so much? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">This is the gift.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">This is the evidence of great blessing and deep beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">If there was nothing much to lose</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The heart would not bleed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">How deeply blessed am I? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">To have been loved so greatly </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">To love so greatly</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I carry all of it;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">All the grand adventures. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">All the little day to day events that formed who I am.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Nothing is lost.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">So, I smile into my tears. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">This pain is the fruit of love and goodness</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Seeds planted in me -</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">A million little bits of life</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Sent roots deep</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Sprouted and blossomed</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">(and blossom, still)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I hold you in my heart</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">With love and tenderness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I cherish a love which cuts so deeply.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Spread from heart to heart</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Generation to generation</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I allow myself to grieve the loss</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I hug to myself the pain which is also the love</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">and nurture the seeds of life and color and music and compassion </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">and silliness and wit and exploits extraordinaire . . .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">and so much more</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Thank you, thank you, thank you!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">How trite is it, to end with the following quote? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Yet, it's true. Love <i>is </i>worth the pain. </span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;">Is actually deepened and intensified by it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: #351c75;">For pain reveals and is evidence of love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i>'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For more information on Huntington's Disease.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.hdsa.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Huntington's Disease Society of America</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For information regarding my family and HD.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.makelifehd.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Make Life HD</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To hear my brother's composition, HD Blues.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.hdblues.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">HD Blues</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To help with research into treatments and a cure.<br /><a href="http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/yellobird/thw_tucson" target="_blank">My donation page</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><i>When I argue with reality, I lose - but only 100 percent of the time. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><i> How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing! </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><i>I am a lover of what is, </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><i>not because I'm a spiritual person, </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><i>but
because it hurts when I argue with reality. </i></span></span><br />
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<span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><i> We can know that reality is
good just as it is, </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><i>because when we argue with it, we experience
tension and frustration. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><i>We don't feel natural or balanced. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><i>When we
stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><i>Byron Katie *</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">How do I find peace?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">When 'what is' can feel so dark </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">When the story seems set</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">When hopes held dear</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Fade</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Disappear </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;">?<br /></span>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Byron Katie stresses that acceptance, and actually <i>LOVE </i>of what is,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">does not preclude taking action to bring about change. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Simply, that it is pointless to argue with the reality that presently exists.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Since, it, in fact, IS.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">She also believes that the essence of the Universe is good. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">If we trust that God is Love</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">That the creational direction of this universe is that of love and goodness</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">We can know that all is ultimately well</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">The
'is' that is, is much more than we see. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Larger, grander</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Deep, intense, wild</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Wonderful. Beautiful. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">It is the caterpillar in the cocoon, the chick in the
egg . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"> The is that is, holds the promise, the potential, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">the energy of
creation which flows beneath the surface always. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">'What is' can feel dark, sterile, motionless, a finished work . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">but it is not.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">'What is' can appear to lead only to decay and loss.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">but, it does not.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">That which carries death, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">atrophies and passes.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">True life lives on</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Shines through</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Prevails</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">We are carried. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">We are Jonah in the dark belly of a fish. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Moving, though we see not where. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">We are the chick, crushed within the suffocating darkness of the egg.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">The caterpillar dissolving, disintegrating</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Losing all form, to be reformed into</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">A beautiful, winged creature</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">(oh, how I fight this feeling of formlesslness - painful, liquid unknowing)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><br />I may feel that my life is static. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">That I've taken too many 'wrong' turns.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">I smell the stench of death . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Fight the darkness that threatens to consume . . . </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">yet</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Life is an organic thing </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Only artificial things never spoil</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">As I ask all that is not love to die and be gone from me</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Can I accept and love</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">the byproducts of death?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Can I embrace the pressure and pain . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">the darkness and the discomfort . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">as the gifts they are?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif">(Or, evidence of the gift.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">LOVE looks on, and smiles.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Sees beauty shining through the darkness. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Renewal emerging from dissolution.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Sees the end of the story.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">And loves what is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">*<a href="http://www.gratefulness.org/readings/bk_noticing.htm" target="_blank">http://www.gratefulness.org/readings/bk_noticing.htm </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Check out Byron Katie's Work. Life changing stuff.</span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><a href="http://www.thework.com/index.php">http://www.thework.com/index.php</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif">Portions inspired by Dark Nights of the Soul, by Thomas Moore</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif"><a href="http://careofthesoul.net/books/">http://careofthesoul.net/books/</a></span></span></div>
Lynellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08410125760752454381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657375076885441070.post-12167546957023263032013-08-25T10:19:00.001-07:002019-06-05T17:49:34.077-07:00Smile into Suffering<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">It is natural--</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Thich Nhat Hanh</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">When I find myself overcome by despair or fear</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Remembrance of truth helps me walk through</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Without succumbing to the darkness</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">During times of extreme trial</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">I've covered my walls with </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Words of strength, hope and encouragement</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Reminders of the bigger picture</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Of the temporary nature of events and experiences in this life</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">I read them aloud to myself </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Until the truths they contain</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Seep in and settle my soul</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">'Til I'm able to release the fear</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">and rest in the solid goodness of Love</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Smiling at oneself is so very important</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Grace and tenderness</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Loving kindness</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Thich Nhat Hanh talks of smiling at your fears </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">in recognition, acceptance and love</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">When I remember</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">When I lovingly smile at my internal woundedness</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">. . . my human frailties</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">And extend compassion and love to all aspects of self</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">(and others) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Peace returns</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">A simple smile can change everything</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Truths remembered can save us from depths which threaten to overwhelm</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">So, I remember.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">I smile. I speak truth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Until the words are part of me</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">Whenever we can smile within ourselves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">and remember the precious beloveds that we are</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">We will more quickly return to the sunshine</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do I honor myself today, as sacred, special, precious?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What some call “liminal space” or threshold space (<em>limen </em>in Latin means a threshold, a starting line in a race, or a beginning place) is a very good phrase for those special times, events, and places that open us up to the sacred. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>It seems we need special (“sacred”) days to open us up to all days being special and sacred; we need special and sacred times to universalize to all time.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What became All Saints’ Day and All Souls Day (<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1296337044" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">November 1-2</span></span>) were already called “thin times” by the ancient Celts, as also were <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1296337045" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">February 1-2</span></span> (St. Bridget’s Day and Candlemas Day when the candles were blessed and lit). The veil between this world and the next world was considered most “thin” and most easily traversed during these times. On these days, we were invited to be aware of deep time—that is, past, present, and future time gathered into one especially holy moment. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What lines do I draw?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Release.</span></div>
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Lynellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08410125760752454381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657375076885441070.post-28030651332544604762013-05-04T12:12:00.000-07:002014-12-14T19:06:21.912-07:00Love's Song<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">(and my son said, "Mom you belong in Africa!")</span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">"Chronic laryngitis was described as a form of self-repression experienced by those with a vital message to tell, who sadly suffered from low self-esteem. </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Now I understood: God had called me to speak His words to the hurting and lonely but I’d shied away from the task due to my false sense of humility. My health had suffered as a result. </span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Clearly I was to speak out all that I sensed and felt."</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">From within</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">In the midst of darkness</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">(mustn't deny what is . . . not judge it)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">I feel the call to sing my song</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Whatever that may be</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">(and I fear, still, that my physical voice will not be up to the task)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">We each have a song . . . a dance . . . a poem</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Which is only ours****</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">This is our life journey, is it not?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">To recognize . . . </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">The dance steps that are ours,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Our life song's melody, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Our poetic pentameter?!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">The source for all of these </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Which is Love</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">I listen for my song.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">One only I can recognize</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">and only my voice can express</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Will sing more as it is received</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Recognized </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">I might not always understand</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Surely, I will not</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">I pray that Love will be received</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">I walk . . . I dance . . . I smile</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Within</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Joyful expectations</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Fill me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Oh, throat of mine;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Be free!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Adventure awaits!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">A life without love is a waste. “Should I look for spiritual love, or
material, or physical love?”, don’t ask yourself this question.
Discrimination leads to di<span class="text_exposed_show">scrimination.
Love doesn’t need any name, category or definition. Love is a world
itself. Either you are in, at the center…either you are out, yearning.<br /> <br /> ~ Shams Tabrizi</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Judgment is a symptom of perceived disconnect.<br /><br />People want to bash the one who had the abortion until its their cherished sister<br /><br />Or rally against the gay until its their beloved brother<br /><br />Or demonize the Republican until it's their kind neighbor.<br /><br />Or marginalize the homeless addict until its their treasured grown child.<br /><br />It's tempting for all of us to judge and we all do.<br /><br />Our freedom isn't in never judging...<br /><br />It's in noticing that we do and recognizing that it comes from the illusion of separation from each other.<br /><br />We are all connected.<br />Created.<br />Designed.<br />And threaded together by this common strand of the human and divine experience.<br /><br />Created by Love<br />For Love</span></span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><br />To receive and give love. Mother Theresa's words call to me often, </span></span>"We have no peace because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."</span></h5>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><br />We belong<br />To each other.<br /><br />♥</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Stacey Robbins</span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and this shows that we have not fully experienced </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">his perfect love.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Step with me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Into a magic place</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Which exists</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Right here</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Right now </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Where I've always been</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">In this place</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">All is well</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">In this place</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I know </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Peace</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">deep</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">deep</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Love</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Tears of delight</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Hover</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Ready to flow</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">At the sight of yet</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Another miracle</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Another evidence</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Of Love's touch</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">*</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I see the miracle of our sons</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Such precious and beautiful souls</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Their words and thoughts are music</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">They speak love and kindness</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Treasures </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Precious gems, they are</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Love's grace has carried and nurtured them</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">"In spite of " our many failings as parents</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Glory, glory</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">Shift Happened </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">In them</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">and in us</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">*</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">How many years have I spent</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">"needing" to be thin?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">At the first sign of weight gain</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Or loss of muscle</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Self loathing has been my companion</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I have starved myself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Or punished myself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">By overeating</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I've taken pride in the ability</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">To starve my Self</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Disease comes in many forms</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I was a beautiful, pitiful picture</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Of suffering</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Loved ones expressed concern</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Tried to save me from wasting away</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Yes, yes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Notice and suffer with this tragic figure</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Which is me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">But, now!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Now!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I look in the mirror</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I see <i>me!</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Aspects that I would have considered ugly before;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Shameful and needing to be hidden</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Are simply</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">It's not my mind that is different</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">It is my very essence</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">There's less judgment</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">No standard of "perfection"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Against which to measure</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Do you understand the miracle of this?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Since puberty</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">My body has represented</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">A major component - indicator</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Of value</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">(I wonder if there are many women in our culture who cannot relate)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">*</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">*</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I don't feel like I'm even in the same universe anymore</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I know something now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">My soul understands something now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Truth that resided in the intellect</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Has become life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Seeds planted</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Have become fragrant blossoms</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I could not hurry the rose</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Could not force the process</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">This is much more than a lesson regarding body image</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">It cuts deep to the core of who I've been</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Dependent on external factors</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Looking outside myself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">For life and love</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Intellectual understanding has been translated</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Into the wordless language</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Of the soul</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">From where does this magic come?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I spoke words to Love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I prayed to know that "God is enough"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Love is enough</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I ask to be purified of all </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">That is not love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">These are the seeds</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">They are choices to receive</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Whatever is needed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">To bring about these realities</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Alone, I am powerless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">To accomplish any of this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">When my spirit agrees with Spirit</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Transformation is welcomed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Suffering embraced</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">As the pathway to my desires</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">This is what seems true to me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">True transformation does not happen </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">In my conscious mind</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I give words to my desires</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">And know that Love hears:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Know that miracles are happening</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">In a place beyond words</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I listened to Mad World, by Gary Jules</span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">today</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Tears of deep gratitude and bliss</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Flow as I listen</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMHTjkCJews">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMHTjkCJews</a> *</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">I lived in this place</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">For many years</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">(and expect I'll regularly revisit, in the years to come)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Here is the darkness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Which reveals the light</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Here is the suffering</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">That pierces and cracks the soul **</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Oh, precious friend</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Read the words</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Listen to the songs</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">"There is a crack in everything</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">That's how the light gets in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Forget your perfect offering</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Every heart, every heart<br style="clear: left;" />To love will come" </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">(Leonard Cohen - Anthem**)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vTSU1lIeJU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vTSU1lIeJU</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Bliss is here</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Joy so sweet</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">It hurts</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Plant your seeds</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Speak your dreams</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Remember that life starts in darkness </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">The protective darkness of the womb</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">The hidden seed within rich soil</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Pressure and pain</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Give birth to life</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Smile </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Smile</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Hope, trust, know</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Your darkness is not wasted</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">You do not see what happens in the dark</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">It happens, just the same</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Your fractured heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Your pierced soul</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Are birth pangs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Opening the way</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">For life and love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">To shine</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">Illuminate</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">And transform</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">Shift Happens!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="color: #351c75;">All around me are familiar faces<br />Worn out places, worn out faces<br />Bright and early for their daily races<br />Going nowhere, going nowhere<br />Their tears are filling up their glasses<br />No expression, no expression<br />Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow<br />No tomorrow, no tomorrow<br /><br />And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad<br />The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had<br />I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take<br />When people run in circles it's a very very<br />mad world mad world<br /><br />Children waiting for the day they feel good<br />Happy birthday, happy birthday<br />Made to feel the way that every child should<br />Sit and listen, sit and listen<br />Went to school and I was very nervous<br />No one knew me, no one knew me<br />Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson<br />Look right through me, look right through me<br /><br />And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad<br />The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had<br />I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take<br />When people run in circles it's a very very<br />Mad world, world<br />Enlarge your world<br />Mad world</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">The birds they sang<br style="clear: left;" />At the break of day<br style="clear: left;" />Start again<br style="clear: left;" />I heard them say<br style="clear: left;" />Don't dwell on what<br style="clear: left;" />Has passed away<br style="clear: left;" />Or what is yet to be.<br style="clear: left;" />Ah the wars they will<br style="clear: left;" />Be fought again<br style="clear: left;" />The holy dove<br style="clear: left;" />She will be caught again<br style="clear: left;" />Bought and sold<br style="clear: left;" />And bought again<br style="clear: left;" />The dove is never free.<br style="clear: left;" /><br style="clear: left;" />Ring the bells that still can ring<br style="clear: left;" />Forget your perfect offering<br style="clear: left;" />There is a crack in everything<br style="clear: left;" />That's how the light gets in.<br style="clear: left;" /><br style="clear: left;" />We asked for signs<br style="clear: left;" />The signs were sent<br style="clear: left;" />The birth betrayed<br style="clear: left;" />The marriage spent<br style="clear: left;" />Yeah the widowhood<br style="clear: left;" />Of every government<br style="clear: left;" />Signs for all to see.<br style="clear: left;" /><br style="clear: left;" />I can't run no more<br style="clear: left;" />With that lawless crowd<br style="clear: left;" />While the killers in high places<br style="clear: left;" />Say their prayers out loud.<br style="clear: left;" />But they've summoned, they've summoned up<br style="clear: left;" />A thundercloud<br style="clear: left;" />And they're going to hear from me.<br style="clear: left;" /><br style="clear: left;" />Ring the bells that still can ring<br style="clear: left;" /><br style="clear: left;" />You can add up the parts<br style="clear: left;" />But you won't have the sum<br style="clear: left;" />You can strike up the march,<br style="clear: left;" />There is no drum<br style="clear: left;" />Every heart, every heart<br style="clear: left;" />To love will come<br style="clear: left;" />But like a refugee.<br style="clear: left;" /><br style="clear: left;" />Ring the bells that still can ring<br style="clear: left;" />Forget your perfect offering<br style="clear: left;" />There is a crack, a crack in everything<br style="clear: left;" />That's how the light gets in.<br style="clear: left;" /><br style="clear: left;" />Ring the bells that still can ring<br style="clear: left;" />Forget your perfect offering<br style="clear: left;" />There is a crack, a crack in everything<br style="clear: left;" />That's how the light gets in.<br style="clear: left;" />That's how the light gets in.<br style="clear: left;" />That's how the light gets in.<br style="clear: left;" />---<br style="clear: left;" />"Anthem" as written by Leonard Cohen<br style="clear: left;" />Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I want to know that I am known</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Noticed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Unique</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Valuable and valued</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Special</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Foundational meanings of special are:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> "to receive unusual treatment"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"to be distinctive and unique"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Different</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Better</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(unless you are the in quotation marks, "special")</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do I need to be loved more than others</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in order to feel good about myself?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do I need to judge others as less</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and myself as more</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in order to feel valuable?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why, the desire for attention?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why sometimes an insecurity and/or jealousy</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for having a gift or ability</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I am not?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Don't forget about me"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Remember I'm special and lovable, too"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We start as children</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Mommy, look at me, look at me!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Watch me now, watch me now!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Seeking special notice;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Approval</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wanting to know we are noticed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Loved</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Special</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And, if we are loved by our parents</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we rightly receive this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Love notices and delights</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in the beloved</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Children look outside of self</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To learn who they are</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A healthy, mature adult</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Will have learned to love and value self</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Irrespective of attitudes and </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I certainly don't want another </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to be loved less</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So that I can be loved more</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yet, at times,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My emotional responses</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Seem to indicate just that</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is it either or?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is there a limited supply</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of love and attention</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">value and respect?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The smaller answer is "yes"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">People tend to notice the ones at the top</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or the ones at the bottom</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whoever is more easily noticed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whoever stands out from the crowd</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The bigger answer is "No".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our Source is Love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Limitless love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This Divine light</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The seed of who we are</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lives within each of us</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Connecting us to the eternal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Never ending flow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of the life and love we desire</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Awareness and connection</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A heart to receive</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and trust</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Are keys to being filled </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To overflowing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With knowledge of value</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With the confidence of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The beloved</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is a knowledge</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not easily attained</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But, worth any price</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">True life is here</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I rest in Love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When love flows from me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To others</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All is good</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All is beautiful</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I see and delight</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In everyone as beautiful and beloved.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From close, tight boundaries</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I delight in mystery</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An open, spacious sky</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is no threat</span></div>
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