deep forest oneness,
wholly abundant with life,
overflowing with beauty,
filling all who receive it
without judgment or question.
healing what is broken–
inside and out,
while asking nothing in return.
imposing nothing, and most importantly
taking nothing away.
Why do we wait so long
to pray for the help we need?
Rest assured there are no perfect prayers
that must be memorized and said perfectly.
“Dear God, help me” is the perfect prayer,
with the right intention behind it.
Admitting there is a Higher Power–
One larger and more powerful than us,
is the perfect beginning point.
Knowing that we need help,
coupled with the willingness to ask for help,
is the perfect start to receiving help.
Being able to recognize help when it arrives,
is requisite to the help helping us.
Allowing the help we receive to incubate,
and fill our healing cocoon is vital
to our help taking hold and transforming us.
Let’s not wait so long to ask for help next time.
Today is a new day–
a chance to heal and start over.
It’s a day for removing our cancer,
and our fear, anger, and resentment.
Today is a new day–
a opportunity to see ourselves
and the world
in a fresh healing light.
Today is a new day–
a powerful new starting point
for living fully,
and embracing our wholeness.
Today is a new day–
let’s not waste it
on pain and suffering.
Let’s live it with gratitude.
The world is broken,
troubled with deep anger and fear,
causing people and the earth to suffer.
We contribute to the world’s suffering
when we act strictly in our own self-interests,
and fail to see how we impact others.
Some people seem to think
it’s somebody else’s job
to help the world heal.
Why do they think that way?
Maybe suffering is all they know,
and they don’t know how to heal themselves.
If we’re not healing ourselves
and helping the world to heal,
what are we doing?
Everything in life
contains a secret hiding place–
a mysterious storage locker,
where we keep our deepest pain,
darkest fears,
broken promises,
shattered dreams,
false accusations,
shameful thoughts and deeds,
and other desperate acts of survival.
Let’s confront our secrets.
Acknowledge their presence,
and remember why we locked them away.
Let’s use our secrets
to find our own god of self-understanding,
and help others confront their secrets.
Let’s live courageously without secrets.
Let’s open the door of our psychic storage lockers,
let the sunlight in,
and chase the mysterious shadows away.
We never know
anything for certain.
But that’s not so bad
because nothing is forever.
And in that light
we see reality,
which escapes us
when we want something different
than what is.
Let’s live in the moment,
and never doubt
the power of change to heal us.
In a world
where mind is the creator,
cancer isn’t the problem.
The problem is
what we think, feel and do.
How we live our lives,
the relationships we form
with other beings and things,
and how we see ourselves
brings us either health or illness.
Find your inner wisdom voice–
There lies your personal truth.
Listen past your fears–
They drown out what is true for you.
Look beyond your anger–
Which often is buried under your fear.
Set aside your desires and wants, and
listen to what your inner wisdom voice says
about what you need to become whole and heal.
Poetic Alchemist 