prayer – Saturday Soul with Sandy Hibbard https://saturdaysoul.com Laughter, Dreams, Love, Desire Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:45:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 156607037 Abiding Peace https://saturdaysoul.com/abiding-peace/ https://saturdaysoul.com/abiding-peace/#respond Mon, 28 May 2018 12:14:16 +0000 http://saturdaysoul.wordpress.com/?p=468 I found this beautifully written work recently, and have no idea who wrote it, but it spoke to me.  I’m sharing it with you because I feel like no matter what an individual has gone through or is currently experiencing in their life, this absolutely applies.  As we all struggle to overcome past conditioning, hurts and disappointments, let’s continue to sift through the clutter to discover a clearer mind and a centered heart.

Love and Peace!
sandy hibbard at #saturdaysoul

By recognizing that our unconscious emotional reactions to others are reflections of our own emotional past, we begin to break the illusion that other people are making us feel these things.  That puts us in a position of strength rather than feeling like a victim of circumstances.  From there we need to heal the pain from our past so that our history of trauma does not continue to generate more suffering in our present.  To do that we need to make the unconscious emotional patterns of our psyche more conscious. 

Meditate daily to bring a permanent sense of self-awareness present in all your thoughts and behavior.  The stronger that self-awareness is, the more the light of that consciousness will penetrate all the dark recesses of your unconscious mind.  That light of consciousness is healing and non-judgmental, its background presence will remove your past conditioning and bring a sense of abiding peace.

 
]]> https://saturdaysoul.com/abiding-peace/feed/ 0 468 Prayer of the Weak https://saturdaysoul.com/prayer-of-the-weak/ https://saturdaysoul.com/prayer-of-the-weak/#respond Sun, 08 Feb 2015 17:25:02 +0000 https://saturdaysoul.wordpress.com/?p=1610 […]]]> Prayer of the Weak

It may look like I am weak, but I am not
I pray to open my heart and mind to possibilities and risks unknown
I choose to risk pain so that love can be found
I am not afraid
I am not going to hold back, yet I am terrified
I will wrangle rings of fire to bring you close to my heart
I will do this because I am love
I am not afraid, but I am terrified
Our shredded hearts will heal to become like branches of a tree
Giving rest to our weakened souls
Nurtured by our tears

I pray for you to come and be yourself with me
Let’s fight our way to each other’s arms
And love without fear
Share the terror that we feel
Opening our hearts
To love as no other

What is love but your heart beating?
What is love but my heart speaking?
It is the strongest thing
Yet a fragile gift
Tender, weak and powerful
Life giving, my love, life living
. . . Are you weak enough?

© Sandy Hibbard

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