Waking up with a song in my heart reminds me of a poem that I read at my Artists meeting last night.
Moment to moment
by Joanna O'Keefe
One moment I feel my life
heavily burdened,
weighed down
by the bone crushing weight
of a thousand, thousand stones.
And the next--
by some split-second
rearrangement
in the order of things--
I am a shooting star streaking
through a severe clear night.
(please see www.joannaokeefe.com/joanna/Welcome.html for more about this poet)
This poem also speaks to my Vulnerability.
As Miriam Greenspan wrote in her book:Healing through the dark emotions, "Vulnerability is not just about hurting. It is about openness. Not only to pain, adversity. loss and death, but also to the things we most desire and cherish: to love, intimacy, creativity, sex, birth, wonder, to being truly touched by another human being, being truly seen for who we are; to the sheer adventure of being alive; to the sacred spirit that imbues the world. When we are most vulnerable, we are most alive, most open to all the dimensions of existence. In our vulnerabilty is our power.
As Miriam Greenspan wrote in her book:Healing through the dark emotions, "Vulnerability is not just about hurting. It is about openness. Not only to pain, adversity. loss and death, but also to the things we most desire and cherish: to love, intimacy, creativity, sex, birth, wonder, to being truly touched by another human being, being truly seen for who we are; to the sheer adventure of being alive; to the sacred spirit that imbues the world. When we are most vulnerable, we are most alive, most open to all the dimensions of existence. In our vulnerabilty is our power.
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