What's True Here

Art credit: "Patience" by Melanie Weidner, Art and Wisdom Cards

Beloveds,

As you continue in your practice of noticing when you are holding your breath, and all that surrounds this noticing, I share with you a poem of Danna Faulds' from her book, What's True Here.

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This is what I have to say to you. Your first and last
and only task is to stay open to the divine flow of
grace in and through and all around you. It’s
everywhere, this grace, from the gifts of nature to
your own creative juices running free. Give yourself
to this mystery without needing to know outcomes.
Risk falling, because you can always get back up.
Risk failing, because you can always begin again.
Give yourself without restraint into the vast
embrace of love that never wanes, even when your
attention wanders, even when you lose faith.

The way is lit from within no matter if sun and
moon are both hidden from view. This divine light
shines all the time, your own personal beacon, like
a lighthouse flashing in the night. Stay open to the
divine flow of grace this day and the next step on
your journey will be so obvious you’ll laugh at any
​former confusion or resistance that held you back.

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Practice:  What do you notice as regards the movement and non-movement of breath in your life, and how does it relate to your experience of the flow of grace?  See if you can be specific in a given moment, focusing in on the question, "What's True Here?"
 
Much Love,
Julia