My fingers are stiff and my back aches The wind taxes my every direction I am lost in this storm of confusion My uncertain footing is sinking deeper I will not give up Yet I cannot see where I am going My mind racing, my heart raging Anger overwhelming then apathy obscuring I promised I wouldn't give up... ...listen... You long for that which you already have You grasp for that which cannot be held You resist that which can only be accepted You forget what you have always known Guidance cannot exist without a listener ...listen...
When do you feel the most guided in your life? What could you do to magnify this guidance?
To all you amazing human beings,
I invite you to join me as I focus on growing my relationship to being guided. I know for myself stepping more into the unknown and making the most of the challenges in my life isn’t always easy.
This week I’m focused on growing my faith and quieting my mind so that I may feel even more of the guidance that is waiting for me to listen.
In what ever way you find a deeper connection to your soul’s calling, I invite you to step further into it.
I’ll see you all next Tuesday!
Continued Blessings,
Graham
Thank you Graham, this perfect for what I’m going through right now. On January 30, 2021 my 35 year old had a rare stroke, which has left him In a state I can’t even describe. My son who was very active with family hikes & camping out, he is a paramedic. It is so hard to even try & talk about it, I went to see him in the rehab center, I thought I couldn’t do it, but I listened to my inner self saying he’s still the same child I raised and I am his mother, When I first entered the room he looked asleep, I walked over to him & touched his hand I knew instantly he knew me, not able to talk but I saw it in his eyes.
So thank you again.
Thank you for this particular poem Graham. I am a private person, so this is somewhat difficult to write and yet I feel the need to write it …
The subject of your work read today has been so much in the forefront of my thoughts and focus these last many months. In fact it has literally been central to my own personal journey. From childhood I heard the demands from adults,, parents, teachers, authority, government, that we must “listen”. We heard all those society approved words and rules. Listen and get the carrot: don’t listen and suffer whatever consequences apply. I was not a good listener to those marching orders. I danced to my own tune. Some knocks along the way, never took the easy compliant way, but the challenges and mistakes often made the success sweeter. …
But I had not stopped the “achievement actions” long enough to listen, not to the noise (even my own), but the truth of me just for myself. The busy world halted 2 years ago. Everything changed.
Perhaps it was meant to stop long enough for me to question because with “active non-stop” being absent, suddenly I was aware of a deep emptiness having to do with inside not outside. I felt lost. How I valued myself suddenly stopped: left. Using old tools exterior to myself failed to find answers.
Last year was painful. I was not patient nor at peace. I was listening to the jumble of words in my brain- Old whispers which could not walk me across the bridge.
Then, by happenstance, in a moment of deep fear and unwelcome solitude, sitting alone in the worst state of mind, I participated in your podcast 17 and meditation Graham. Perhaps it was the timing: what I do know is that I emerged with an inner core I was first aware of on that day. My face was wet with tears I listened to something inside of me that I had never been conscious of before … it has changed my life in a unique and even magical way.
Since then it’s been such discovery, sometimes even traumatic and tearful, but always enlightening.
There is no key that can be given to another. It has to be found by each of us. I suppose in our own way. The expansiveness of being open to that (even in a painful state) and ready for it enabled me to grasp hold of it. We each have our own path to walk. But we have to be wide open to be able to listen. It brings much peace and understanding.
As difficult as this was to put into words, I am so glad I did. We never know how one word from us or one effort we put out into the universe may help another person. You did that. Thank you Graham. I feel blessed to be on this current path to understanding and connecting with my own inner truth.