Home to Your Heart

  The splendor that surrounds us right now calls us home. Home to our hearts. To who we really are deep inside. It is so easy to get caught up in the rip tide of life. We get sucked in or pulled down or knocked over and we are gasping, fighting, crying, trying to keep up with it all and not get pulled out to a deep depths that swallow us whole.
 However it can all be stopped for a moment and in that moment it can be turned around. It takes work and it takes faith and it takes strength. How many of us are truly strong enough to do it? To find the home in our hearts? To find that root of who we really are deep down ~ if we have veered off the path or found ourselves lost. Everyone is strong enough. We really are strong. No matter how bad things have gotten the precious you is still there, that soft, lighted up, smiling, beautiful, strong, valiant and talented YOU. YOU are not gone. You are not forever lost.
 Every year where I live the world illuminates in color all around me in Autumn. It is a different illumination then Spring but it is just as powerful. It is preparing for the sleep of winter, the cold and grey. However it doesn't just bow low, hunched shoulders, defeated. It prepares with song and color and it soars high and free. This picture is so incredible beautiful to me. It is one of strength and endurance and celebration. This building has withstood so much. Our bodies are the same. Yours may feel like this building looks....old and weathered and sagging and grey...but at the same time think about how much work went into this building, how much vision and how much laughter and tears and life has taken place in it. Your body may be weary and your heart bowed low but if you look around you for a moment right now your body, yourself, is surrounded by the celebration of Autumn. This celebration and all this color ~ its for YOU. Also, your body had had much laughter and work and vision and tears put into it too. It has history and beauty and worth. So today ~ right now ~  take a moment and let it sink in...the color, the crispness, the crunch of the leaves, the misty mornings, the smell of wood burning, the geese calling over head, and you can do this. You can keep going on throughout the winter and the cold and the grey. It takes work and it takes perseverance and it takes truth but you can do it. So keep on, keep on and don't give up. Get out there into this world that we all share, that we all have been placed in, open up and let light in, go pursue the help you need and the love that is there waiting. Come home to your heart, to your healing, to your preciousness.