Things can be more beautiful
than you thought - seams can crack open,
unimagined light can pour through
at any part of your life -
things you've tended, especially,
but also what you've forgotten,
or what is given you
from the kindness of others
(from what they've tended
or maybe what they unexpectedly found)
Life can be more beautiful
than the dogged portion you've allowed yourself,
or the comfort that you've settled for,
the compromise, the resignation
Anybody's life can open up
in unexpected glory,
bringing blessing to themselves
and many others
Your life can be
the light you hoped for it -
ask and seek, and seek and ask -
it will come forth.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 9, 2021
There may be moments
where you see the whole tide
of what we have called history -
sweeping events, toxic thought forces
that left so many tangled, stranded,
caught in some anomaly of feeling,
left alone, or shattered, fractured,
grinding brokenly against others
in thoughtless eddies
of interactions
You may find peace in knowing
none of this is your fault -
not where you started
or how you landed
or what people said were
choices that you made
You may find peace in feeling
the flood tides slowly rising,
lifting you up, bringing us back together,
giving a way to reimagine
what it means to live here on this earth.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 8, 2021
Here is a pearl you could wear
on a long chain, belly level,
perhaps - a truth you could use
when you need it, a secret reminder
You could remember your life
is already loved, and it doesn't need
lies to prop it up
or fears to keep it safe
Your love is served by truth,
your truth augments your love -
they hold you in the safe place
where you know you are enough.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 7, 2021
I part the brambles, step within -
I seek a deeper honesty -
the portals that it opens
makes it worth the search,
for here a fuller life
is promised me
The small excuse, the better sounding story,
I turn these over, see what's underneath -
a fear of being judged, perhaps,
or that my truest self
would not be fit to be more fully seen
Or that the short cuts I have taken,
ways I've failed to see another fairly,
were best for me to hide,
(and mostly from myself)
could be concealed, so I'd be let off easy
My honesty will help these flaws in thought to pass away,
and let the skill of my Creator
have the final say.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 5, 2021
Am I brave enough
to put my life under a loupe,
to see and understand
all the loops.of thought -
how they hide themselves
and how they manifest,
and what they do when bathed in sudden light?
And am I willing to be calm and kind enough
to uncover hidden hurts and misconceptions,
to follow down the consequences
and put to right whatever is awry?
One thing is sure -
the way is forward -
neither looking back
nor circling in stasis
will furnish me the needed satisfaction,
and when this work is called for,
and as it is, I'll do it
in humbleness, and willingness,
and trust.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 4, 2021
Rain at night
is a fine coziness -
more so for its forbearance
through the day, for the unexpected sun
that came in with all kinds
of special effects, and all kinds of power
for batteries, and encouragement
for living things (like us)
getting ready for the short dark days.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 3, 2021
In the softness of the cloudy day,
in the quietness of certain moments,
I remind myself,
and it starts to come back to me,
how I have been shown,
how I have been given
a way of walking here
where joy comes up under my feet
and floats from everything i see
I don't want to keep it to myself,
I seek the deepening
that lets me give it
to everyone I think of
and everyone I see
I work it now in little ways
and wait to see it open up,
not by my will
but by my willingness,
not by expertise
but by grace.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 2, 2021
