FIERCE GRACE I swept into your life Destroying all your carefully made plans. I know you loved your achievements. I know your intentions were pure. But I heard your prayers to bring love to the world. I took your offering at its word. How could you hear the cries of a broken world If you …
FIERCE GRACE Do not be afraid of the fierceness of Grace As she razes your house to the ground She comes to reveal your original face. As you blink back tears in this strange, new place She will not leave you where you were found Do not be afraid of the fierceness of Grace …
Can you see it, my love? You are beginning to wake up. Can you see what we have done together? You are ready to trust. Can you see the perfection of all the things you fought so hard against? The pain of losing it all, the loneliness of chronic illness, the stripping away of all …
DOWN AMONG THE BROKEN ONES Come down among the broken ones Who gave their hearts away Who tried to help, who tried to love All those who came their way. Come down among the lost ones Whose way of being died Who gave their all, till all was gone And darkness lit …
On January 1st I started the 31 day Yoga Revolution with Yoga with Adriene. I began with the same excitement that accompanies every Monday when the new diet begins, every New Year when the new life begins, in fact every plan I have every forced myself to do. I rationalised that this will be the …
After last week’s Write into Life post, I have been thinking more about the wisdom of the body and how it always knows the truth, despite how many hoops the mind pushes it through. I wrote this poem about it. THE BODY KNOWS The body knows The lies you tell The headache blooms Where love …
I recently joined a writing class called Write into Light run by Martha Beck. write-into-light My first submission was a piece bringing together some of the things I have been writing about on this blog. The SIP: Anything but what is. I have recently become aware that my whole life has been a self-improvement plan. …
Since I have found myself completely unable to write a blog post for over a month, I have been thinking a lot about resistance and how it shows up in my life. I seem to have resistance to continuing with things that previously seemed to be a good idea. Strangely, these are often things I …
A while ago I read a story about how we never know if something is good or bad. The Taoist farmer One day in late summer, a farmer was working in his field with his old sick horse. The farmer felt compassion for the horse and decided to let it go into the mountains to live out …
Last week I wrote about Tools for Recovery, here: http://susantelford.com/2017/01/07/tool-for-recovery-part-1-yoga/ and here: http://susantelford.com/2017/01/11/tools-for-recovery-part-2-juicing/ I tried to follow these plans to the letter and managed 10 days on juice and 17 days of daily yoga, until the inevitable resistance set in. I missed day 18 of #yogarevolution. I woke feeling tired and sore, in addition to the daily yoga I …