Tuesday, February 02, 2010

a lovely verse...

Sitting With The Shattered Soul -Steele, K. (1987)

So how do you sit with a shattered soul?
Gently, with gracious and deep respect.
Patiently, for time stands still for the shattered, and the momentum of healing will be slow at first.
With the tender strength that comes from an openness
To your own deepest wounding, and to your own deepest healing.
Firmly, never wavering in the utmost conviction that evil is powerful, but there is a good that is more powerful still.
Stay connected to that goodness with all your being, however it manifests itself to you.
Give freely.
Take in abundantly.
Find your safety, your refuge, and go there as you need.
Words won't always come; sometime there are no words in the face of such tragic evil.
But in your own willingness to be with them, they will hear you; from soul to soul they will hear that for which there are no words.
When you can, in your own time, turn and face that deep chasm within.
Let go.
Grieve, rage, shed.


2 comments:

  1. This is a very inspiring post. So many things to learn in that verse. Thank you for sharing.

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  2. What a beautiful poem. So much to learn about how to be with others and with ourselves, through the processing of pain. Thank you for sharing this. Joani

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