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{POEM} Today, I Choose Wholeness

Poetic Healing

Today, I choose wholeness
In my body,
In my mind,
In my soul
For all the world,
I choose wholeness

Releasing of the energetic stains
Of past transgressions
Accepting of the light of true salvation
Opening of my mind to the gifts
Which lie before and within me
I choose wholeness

On this day,
In this moment,
Forever more,
When I am flying,
When I need reminding,
With my arms open in service,
With my heart heavy in prayer,
I choose wholeness

©SpiritLed 2018

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Posted On: December 23, 2018

Live It Now

Poetic Healing

Candlelight vigil to support Electoral College

Time stands still
And in the void an otherworldly voice
Begins to whisper from some unknown depths within,
And though her language is unknown
The heart still understands
And begins to whisper too
Softly at first, then growing louder
Until the voice becomes a roar
For all ears to receive

It is not by the color of our skin
Or the hairs on our heads,
The sound of the voice in our throats
The pew in which we sit,
Or the love we hold in our hearts for another
That we are persecuted so,

No, it is the brokenness,
A carried-down, ancestral aching,
Fierce clinging to ancient, entrenched philosophies
Hunger misguided by survival for the fittest
Which tortures and feeds our collective broken heart
The weeping dagger still twisting
In the open wound
Never bearing the opportunity
To experience the light of healing

Those who hold the power to turn the knife
And keep the wound always fresh and weeping
Believe they also hold the key to our survival
Yet they are wrong,
They mask a heart-known truth

We also hold the handle to the knife
And turn its blade deep into our own flesh
Each time we choose hate or indifference over love
Each time we choose personal safety over protection for another
Each time we choose blindness rather than to witness painful truth
Each time we choose, repeatedly, not to remove the knife
From our own bleeding hearts

So when we choose to fight the knife-bearers
Without removing our own knives
We also then choose
To fight ourselves

This truth, it lies inside each one of us
To heal the world
To heal ourselves
We must speak it now
We must live it now

©SpiritLed 2017

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Posted On: August 21, 2017

Daily Bliss – July 27

Daily Bliss


The Angels remind us that just because everything seems to be crashing down around us, we’re not required to crash down with it.  Each day, we have a choice to gather our internal forces or to shrink in the face of difficulty.  Some days, shrinking may truly be the best option.  Other days–most days–we can choose to rise in strength. 

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Posted On: July 27, 2017

Today I Choose

Awakenings, Poetic Healing

Today I choose Life
I choose Freedom
I choose raw vulnerability
I choose the Road Less Traveled
I choose Courage and Honesty
I choose to reach deep inside
To the depths of my humanity
And become what I already am

(10-30-12)

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Posted On: October 31, 2012

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