Being Nourished

(notes from the seventh five women gathering)

We wanted heaven

and when we gathered,

each with her desire

for healing, wholeness,

and that light-connection

which we each could feel

was what our essence craved,

When we gathered,

each with unfinished threads

of our own deepest strivings,

having gone as far as we could go alone,

By some bright miracle

and really without any of us trying,

our seeking edges knit themselves together:

In an instant,

quick as light flashing over water,

we each were whole,

we all were one,

We breathed the inextinguishable knowing

what it was like

to be in heaven —

how the strong arcs of our intention

circled one another, held us up,

how we each were lifted

to be a beacon for the others

thus fulfilling 

just the thing we needed for completion,

Thus embracing

what we’ve been and what we are becoming,

Fully tasting

what it is to be profoundly nourished,

what we’ll know to grow to

from now on.

©Wendy Mulhern

May 18, 2013