We go through life accruing death,
accumulating losses, gathering about us
the growing light of grief.
The heart feels each a loss
but the soul claims them as blessing.
It’s the very journey of holiness:
surrendering, clinging to nothing,
in weakness finding strength,
in trust knowing freedom,
in poverty receiving grace.
And so we gladly mourn,
we allow ourselves to be pierced,
to be anointed for burial,
its fragrance filling our house.
We open ourselves
to our most profound losses,
and even our own death,
stilled,
and so, stripped of all that weighs,
free.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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