letting go

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“There are too many people today who instead of feeling hurt are acting out their hurt; instead of acknowledging pain, they’re inflicting pain on others. Rather than risking feeling disappointed, they’re choosing to live disappointed.

                                                                        Brene Brown

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Avoid it

Avoid it at all costs

That pain, that feeling

That disquieting thought

That uncomfortable truth

Stuff it down

Hide it repressive

Fill the trash can of your soul

What can go wrong?

Ah, the problem is that trash

Almost always,

Eventually

Stinks

Rot, rot

Fester, fester

And sometimes the trash can explodes

And what we chose not to deal with, not to express

Expresses itself

It attitudes

Feelings

Words

Actions

It explodes with in us

And we struggle with illness and pain

But it also explodes from us

And we act our pain and anger

Our hurt,

Wounded we wound

Fearful we live out our fear, creating fear

Infected we infect.

There is another option

We can accept

We can embrace

We can touch our pain, and let it go

We can notice what we think

And accept what we feel

And take a deep breath

And let it go

Call it what you will

De-fusing

Forgiveness

Centering

We touch all that is wounded in us

And then turn from it

And do what we care about

We love

We serve

We help

We heal

It is an old truth

“You can only lose what you cling to.” – Buddha

It is a basic truth

“whoever wants to save their life will lose it”

Ah my dear ones

Tonight turn off the TV

Shut down the computer

Ignore your phone

Walk out into the darkness

Gaze at the stars stretching into the eternal

And “give to the winds thy fears;

hope and be undismayed.

God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears,

God shall lift up thy head” (Traditional hymn)

You have everything to lose

Thank

God