When I can embrace the truth that the pain of loss can not permanently hurt me, I can embrace love and loss as just part of life. And that love requires loss, and loss requires love for life to have meaning, for my life to have meaning. And so the journey of loss and love continue on, but no longer do I need to fear, escape or deny loss, for when I deny loss, I also deny love. Only when I can fully embrace loss can I fully embrace love, and only when I can fully embrace love can I fully embrace loss, that's just the way it is.
Steve Flemming
02/20/08
www.abetterworldtoday.com
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Being Grateful
Being Grateful
If there is one thing we would be wise to remember, it would be to be Grateful!
It would be wise to be sincerely grateful for our health, our mind and our body. It would be wise to be genuinely grateful for our family, friends and freedom. It would be wise to be grateful for our past, present and future. When we feel stress, fear or anger, may we find something to be grateful for? When we experience success and love may we find something to be grateful for? For would it not be wise to remember the journey has no real end, still the destination that can be reached is to be Grateful each step of the way?
Steve Flemming
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
Can I forgive myself for not being perfect, for not knowing everything, for still being vulnerable, and limited in my capacity to live fully? Can I forgive myself for my mistakes, flaws and misconceptions? Can I forgive myself for never living up to my own expectations and standards? Can I forgive myself when I give in to temptations, desires and compulsions? Can I forgive myself for being me? Can I forgive myself? For if I can, do I not allow my soul to be free, to create, to embrace, to love, to play, to inspire, to cultivate, to exist? When I forgive myself, is my soul not free to be? So I ask one more time, can I forgive myself, and allow my soul to sing and dance the way it only knows how. Full of life, full of joy, full of peace, full of love, full of mystery, full of sorrow, full of pain, full of rage, full of energy. Can I forgive myself and trust that my soul is not to be blamed or to be shamed? Can I forgive myself and allow my soul to guide me and protect me, even when I know not where the soul is taking me. Can I let go and allow my soul to heal me and console me, and laugh with me, even when I stumble here and now just writing these words once again? Can I forgive myself, and let the rhythms of my soul guide me through a life filled with wonder, awe and emptiness? A life worth living, with nothing more to say, can I forgive myself even for today?
Steve Flemming
www.abetterworltoday.com
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