There is no controlling life.
Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado.
Dam a stream and it will create a new channel.
Resist, and the tide will sweep you off your feet.

Allow, and grace will carry you to higher ground.
The only safety lies in letting it all in –

fear, fantasies, failures, and success.

When loss rips off the doors of the heart
or sadness veils your vision with despair,
practice becomes simply bearing the truth.
In the choice to let go of your known way of being,
the whole world is revealed to your new eyes.

Danna Faulds. “Allow.”

 

Love withdraws when we close our hearts, yet ever awaits an open door.

In the evening we may weep, yet joy comes in the morning.

Psalm 30. From Psalms for Praying, by Nan Merrill.

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