For Today’s Red Thread Letter #891, I am sharing a poem written 2 years ago today called Tend your Temple. An invitation to take care of you.
Red Thread Letter #891
TENDING YOUR TEMPLE
Dear One,
I wrote this poem as an invitation to tend to your own needs. I know this is easier said than done, but I’ve been working with daily practice my entire life, and know the power it holds to create resiliency during hard times.
For the summer, my daily practice is to sit in the sun 5-10 minutes a day. Getting those rays have been so good for my mind, heart and body. I invite you to give it a try! I also exercise every day through walking or swimming.
You can watch me read this poem to you, or continue reading the words yourself. Consider sharing with others who need to hear this today…
Tending My Temple
May any stagnant energy that I am holding, move along
May any heaviness that can move, move along
May any grief that I cannot hold, that is ready to move, move
May my own troubles not weigh me so far down
that I cannot let the world love me, or love the world
May I be healed enough to hold the whole world in my arms
in this moment, in this impossible moment
I hold the world
along with my own grief, together, we move energy along . . . .
In this loving presence of self and the Divine,
I am healed enough
I allow this awareness to flood my body with pure presence
Arriving, arriving, arriving, into my temple
My temple which is right now
clearing the energy that I do not need
making room for something beautiful
I am making room to let the beauty touch me
This love that is so big that I cannot begin to imagine it
brings me peace, I hold the world, and the mystery holds me
As peace comes through me, I share this peace with all beings
I am all beings; all beings are me
With this awareness I know
I am responsible to tend this being which is me
Today this is how I am tending my own temple
Creator beyond names, reasons and conditions
moves through me, with me, and clears the path
My field is clearing, more open
I am more available, my intelligence, my body, my heart,
my presence, my field, clears
I let myself FEEL and KNOW and BE this clearing
And so it is already
Thank you and Amen, Amen, Amen
