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Soaring Hearts
Is your heart a torch?
An Unlived Life
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days to allow my living to open me,
To make me less afraid, more accessible,
To loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
To live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom,
And that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
â?? Dawna Markova
Isn‘t this an incredible poem? I have many “favorite lines” in this piece and at the top of the list is “I choose to inhabit my days to allow my living to open me”.
There is so much power in that choice and in remembering that I am the chooser. I can either inhabit my days in a way that has my living harden me and grow more disillusioned, bitter and closed with each passing day. ..or I can be alive in a way that opens me and leaves me expanded, evolved and nourished by the circumstances of my life.
I notice that the older someone gets the more obvious the choice. Some have grown hard and closed with the living and others. ..well, oh my my. The light just pours out of them and nourishes all they touch.
It is not the big moments that shape our lives. It is the moment by moment, day by day choices we make about how to respond to the circumstances of life and the incredible challenge of being a spiritual being in a human experience. We mold and shape our lives by regular practice; by the willingness to do our best, to fail, to recover.
That‘s my prayer today; to be in conscious choice. ..to practice inhabiting each moment of this precious life in a way that opens me and nourishes and grows the life around me.
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Kate Griffiths
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