Holy Thaws

And God is always there, if you feel wounded.  He kneels

over this earth like

a divine medic

and His love thaws

the holy

in us

              Teresa of Avial (From the poem “When the Holy Thaws)

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This world is full of seekers

those who would find the Sacred

this world is full of the wounded

those who have been ripped and torn by life

this world is full of people who are bewildered

and look with confusion on

the world around them

and cannot

cannot

understand

this world is full of those

who feel affronted

who believe that all are against them

and live in anger

the world us full of people

who need a medic

who need to understand that they

are full of the sacred

that they are sacred

there is only one medicine that will work

one miracle remedy

it is not guilt

it is not judgment

we cannot scare

or legislate

or coerce and manipulate

people into wholeness

spiritually

physically

socially

we can only love

and love

and love again

and as we do

we thaw the sacred in them

and

joy!

We thaw

the sacred in ourselves as well

healer

heal your self!

OK!  I think I will do that!