WUNRN
When everything you think you know
changes
what do you do then?
When all that you dreamed you might cause
shifts
what do you dream then?
When who you thought you were
isn't
how then to re-invent?
When how you believed the world to be
deconstructs
how shall you trust again?
When the ideas of childhood are no longer
whole
how do you re-connect to innocence?
When the instruction manual you have been using
de-materializes
what step-by-step do you follow?
When the life you thought you would have
is out of view
how then shall you claim a new one?
When the paradigm you were living in
no longer makes sense
how do you enter one that matches who you are?
When your heart hurts and the crack is opening
even more
how do you continue to love and to listen?
When the unraveling has begun you must just wait.
Sit in the broken sanctuary of your own heart,
even if the wonder and cries are so loud,
that you cry all day. Know that you are not alone.
Don't try to get through it, get it done,
or rush to the next thing or to resolution
or the illusiveness of completion.
Don't make up new stories to go in the place
of the old ones.
Sit in the discomfort and the spaciousness.
And open yourself to miracles.
Practice the thought that somewhere in your consciousness, you have a memory that knows that healing, is indeed, possible.
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