Self-Speak

Meandering Reflections and Self-Speak

In the early morning light I look for you. I hear your voice in the rustling wind and in the cool breeze. Tears glide effortlessly from the heartache in my soul down my cheeks on their journey to nowhere. They leave invisible scars on my face as they etch a chasm between who I was and who I am. As the valley becomes deeper I am amazed that the world doesn’t see. I look in the mirror and wonder who she is who looks back at me.

Will my broken heart ever be healed or will the chasm split me in to?

Believe? I must believe…in weakness I am strong and in vulnerability I have power to conquer…self-speak. I must self-speak. I am more than a conqueror. I am a woman who is perfectly loved by One who knows me better than I know myself. One who walks with me through the haze of life and knows the pain of death.

Self-speak…Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.

Universe, know! I choose to believe that these tears will be the silent prayers that my heart and breath are unable to pray. I believe that they are treasured gifts to the One who knows my soul.

Should the chasm of tears break me in half?

The Healer of hearts will restore me. I hear it in the breath of the wind. The trees have told me so.

Why Love Then?

Why Love Then.
When we love we put ourselves in a place of eventuality.
The possibility of beauty and the possibility of ruin is equal, in the prospect of loving another.
It is as likely that love changes us into an exquisite many-faceted crystal, as it is that love changes us into mired dirt, broken and trod upon.

Why love then? Why risk the elemental pressure of nature, taking a small measure of love, and turning it into something beyond the control of a beating heart.

Dust or glitter. Dirt or quartz.

Do we choose how love will turn out when offered to others?
No.

We control just one thing. How our love is given. Is it given unreservedly? Is it given with the knowledge that there may be extreme pain, because the death of love may be more devastating than never loving?

Love changes that which it owns.

Why love then?

Though devastated; though destroyed; there is an unmistakable echo in the heart of one who loves. Words may be garbled and feelings may be crushed; nevertheless the echo is there in a still quite Voice.
“You Love. Love is the greatest gift given by the heart of a living soul. You Love. That which you have planted in tears will be reaped in joy because you LOVE.”

The beating heart, which yields to Love in the smallest of ways, will never be the same. The unabashed heart which yields in totality may be trampled and yet; Love changes that which it owns.

Why love then? Why love when the heart may be broken and the offering may be trampled as dirt, and blown by the wind? Why love when offering love may not produce glorious, solid, observable beauty?

Love for the eventuality. Love for the possibility. Love for love’s eternal harvest; the increase of Love.
Why love? GOD is love and when we love we are like Him.

Why love?

Love for LOVE’S sake then.

Fiery Fleck (Around the Fire)

Find joy in a moment gazing at a lone fiery fleck

sacred solitude;

reflection in a sensory speck.

Sit in silence peering in wonder at the roaring pyre.

The universe collides with thought, around a blazing fire.

Yellow, orange and deep blue burn consuming both wood and thought.

Soul simplicity emerges; artistic renderings wrought.

Hearts melt in the dancing fire.

Churning flames; fanning desire.

Insipid reason slips from mind, challenged by warmth and light.

Sacred silence, oh fiery fleck, love profound, darkest night.