the Heart

“so fill your heart with what’s important and be done with all the rest…”  It is so easy to fall into the mind blaming…what should I have donewhat could s/he could have donewhy did this happen to me...if only  game.  It is easy for us to wallow in our own grief and forget that there is hope for us…there is life out there…our heart needs to be filled with desire and love.

We can choose to stay in the dung heap, or get up out of it, and find a new direction and a new way of being. Each day truly offers a new opportunity.  Each day offers new people to meet and new friends to make! We are made to spread love in this world…and, foremost, to be gentle with ourselves and give love to ourselves.   When things become too much, when people have left you for another, when you are just fed-up with all that is going wrong–GOOD! This observation is a SIGN to you to MOVE FORWARD! That is the time to throw all that grief out of your life and BEGIN again!  Life is a series of beginning and endings…but if something is ending…something new is about to begin! Keep your life going…weep a little for yourself, be gentle with you, and then leave it behind…and go forward with your heart…”filling your heart with what is important!”

Heart outtake

Heart outtake (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

you can never ever go back

 

caterpillar

I watched the caterpillar

Move confidently up the length of the stem

up and over and around and down again

repeating her pattern from stem to stem…

soon it was introverted–

suspended upside down

as the blade of grass bent with the breeze…

caterpillar’s mind was in a spiral whirlwind

moving freshly forward into a new reality…

…a new awareness…

you can never ever go back to where you were

there is no back…

only forward movement…

each touch…each experience

similar in some way to what was previous

but now with a different nuance

different perspective…

you are forever changed…

evolving on the spiral staircase

 

(The image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.)