Conversation

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It is not always easy to say the words

To open up

To express how you feel

Happiness and sadness

Two very opposite feelings

Yet both equally important for our soul

We must take the steps

to have open conversations

Communicating with one another

is a healing power

that cannot be measured

Breaking hearts mend

Souls strengthen

Smiles form

Conversations remind us we are not alone

They allow us to drain the hurt inside of us

And they bring us together

Open yourself up to the healing that occurs

when conversations are taking place

Allow yourself to be

vulnerable

It is in these moments of

vulnerability

that 'you' will be seen

Nothing is more powerful than being seen

angel

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As tears soaked my cheeks

You stopped to wipe them away

You gave me a friendly smile

And an understanding look

I did not even have to say a word

for you to know I needed you

You sat with me and listened

You never judged me

You saw me

For who I was

In that moment

And what I was feeling

Right then, right there

You held my hand

You held my heart

You helped to heal me

You are my angel

My light in the darkness

all of you

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photo taken while driving home and smiling thinking of all of you

Do you know what you guys do to me

Each time a comment appears from you

Or when a card arrives in my mailbox

Do you know how my heart sings

When a simple text messages is sitting in the palm of my hands

Or a little note appears

I sit here smiling

Thinking of all of you

And all the ways you brighten my days

Sometimes when I need it most

When my heart is sad or I just need to smile

One of you will appear, as if you knew

It is amazing how connected we all are to one another

There is no distance to far

for two heart and souls to connect

Words cannot convey this feeling

This heart swelling pride

That sings inside of me

I am a better person because of all of you

I am stronger, braver, and I smile more often

I am happy because I have you guys in my life

Thank you for being my little angels

For watching over me, loving me,

And seeing me

I adore you

I admire you

and I love you

The Truelove

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The Truelove

~David

Whyte

There is faith in loving fiercely

the one who is rightfully yours,

especially if you have

waited years and especially

if part of you never believed

you could deserve this

loved and beckoning hand

held out to you this way.

I am thinking of faith now

and the testaments of

loneliness

and what we feel we are

worthy of in this world.

Years ago in the Hebrides

I remember an old man

who walked every morning

on the grey stones

to the shore of baying seals,

who would press his hat

to his chest in the blustering

salt wind and say his prayer

to the turbulent Jesus

hidden in the water,

and I think of the story

of the storm and everyone

waking and seeing

the distant

yet

familiar

figure

far across the water

calling to them,

and how we are all

preparing for that

abrupt waking,

and that calling,

and that moment

we have to say yes,

except it will

not come so grandly,

so

Biblically

,

but more subtly

and

intimately

in the face

of the one you know

you have to love,

so that when

we finally step out of the boat

toward them, we find

everything

holds

us, and everything confirms

our courage, and if you wanted

to drown you could,

but you don't

because finally

after all this struggle

and all these years,

you don't want to any more,

you've simply had enough

of

drowning

,

and you want to live and you

want to love and you will

walk across any

territory

and any darkness,

however fluid and however

dangerous, to take the

one hand you know

belongs in yours.

I listen and I see YOU

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I listen to your stories, your heart ache, your tears,

your dreams, your worries, and your fears

I listen to not only what you have to say

but I listen to how you feel

I digest it

Soaking in each

morsel

I listen to what you do not want to say

What you are afraid to say

And what you think you never will say

I listen to that little voice that wants to jump outside of your soul

And open up your eyes to a whole new world of possibility

I listen to the pain that pours out of your eyes,

even when you are not talking about it

And I listen to the emptiness that you feel is inside of you

I listen to everything

But what I see is so different than what you say

I see you

Strong

Brave

Bold

Beautiful

Loving

Tender

Kind

Caring

I see this strong women standing before me

Doing things she never thought she could

Jumping

Flying

Spreading her wings and opening her heart up to the world

I see your soul radiating light

I see your smile guiding you through each day

I see you

All of you