let life live through you

Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

                                                                                                                   ~Rumi

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morning comes

again

another day

another sunrise

a lot of sameness

the same view

the same walk

in spite of the beauty

and wonder

there comes a stolid consistency

there is a safety in this sameness

a sort of comfort

but also a sort of closure

life becomes edited

so that I cannot see

the fresh

the different

I cannot be lifted into God’s new thing

hindered as I am

by that which now grips

and burdens

made up of all that I cling to

old ideas

priorities

rules

I do not want change and so,

no matter how dry I become,

I trudge on

afraid to change

fearful of opening myself

to life

to that which comes my way

and yet

there is an “inner well of longing” (O’Donohue)

an infinite inner opening

from which flows

wonder

a wild rush

which turns me upside down

inside out

and which

truth be told

I fear

until I catch a glimpse

of what is

to come

until I see the sunlight afresh on the mountain

and feel the joy

of a fresh start

as old roles and titles

fade away

as new dreams emerge

and love beckons

and hope rises

and I wonder

why I was so blind

and

so

afraid