wide open

“If you put a spoonful of salt

in a cup of water

it tastes very salty.

If you put a spoonful of salt

in a lake of fresh water

the taste is still pure and clear.

Peace comes when our hearts are

open like the sky, vast as the ocean.”

Jack Kornfield

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Our souls are salted with many things

Fear

Hate

Greed

and when our souls are tiny

constricted due to ideology

or theology

when our lives are squeezed down

by social norms

and expectations

we can so easily lose our humanity

but worse, our divinity

the sacred image we carry

becomes blurred

sometimes beyond recognition

and we become unable to give

to offer compassion

to forgive

to love

how do we open our hearts?

how do we throw open the windows of our soul

to the wind of the Sacred?

We walk

We breathe

We notice the stars

We gaze in wonder at the mountain

And celebrate the sky

We dance in the dust

And the mud

And the snow

We throw our arms wide open

And embrace the Sacred

As She/He/It comes