I’m here, Mama.
What do you want of/from me?
Grief. Tears. Allowing.
Feel your feelings.
Joy comes with, after, before, around
grief.
“Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.” (psalms 126:5)
Tears aren’t always wrought from personal pain.
It doesn’t have to be your own hurt.
Allow empathy.
Soften your heart to the pain of others.
Move for them.
Grieve for and as a member of the collective.
When others are hurting
and have to survive without room for fear or grief,
the collective can feel for and with them.
You were told “it’s not your pain. How dare you feel it or express it.”
But that’s a lie.
It’s all OUR pain.
When we run from it,
hide from it,
distance ourselves from it,
it grows
and it will find us all.
But
when we own it,
feel it,
allow it,
seek to be with it,
heal it,
it heals in, with, through, for us all.
So feel your feelings
with full permission
unabashedly.
Today, it may be grief, outrage, rage, pain, despair, hopelessness, fear
or
it may be joy, triumph, relief, gratitude, solace, hope
It’s all welcome. All needed.
We cannot have some without all.
Do not be afraid to feel.
Let there be no guilt or shame
in empathy
in loss
in celebration.
Feeling it all
holds balance for all
gives permission for all
makes space for all.
We are Divine.
Nothing is denied to us.
To live in a body
is to hold a paradox
is every living moment
life and death are equally real
equally magical
the how is a matter of free will
in kindness or cruelty
presence or numbness
Breathe
be with what is
what is will shift
and become what was
the ebb and flow is constant
when you feel stuck/trapped/resistant
return to what is
and allow with to be with and through you
completely.
I promise, in its fullness
shift comes.
None of it lasts forever.
That is a gift.
There is hope in there.
There is truth.
There is always this moment
and then the next.
Even if you stop, the next moment will come.
Allow it.
Breath by breath.
Allow it all.
You want to hold back
to avoid moving towards fear
believing what comes is unbearable.
But you’ve borne every moment so far
and you/we will bear them all
each in our right time.
Beat them
witness them
embody them
be transformed in and by them.
and still more come.
So breathe, allow, feel it all.
Grief and Hope - a How to Guide