I'm sending out some love and a prayer (below) for anyone feeling lonely.
Last night a loved one shared with me her loneliness.
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Thinking of this loneliness woke me before the sun, before the birds. 🐦
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It is Monday morning.
Another week to
face uncertainty
release fears
navigate zoom meetings
attempt remote learning
feel overwhelmed
feel underwhelmed
clean as an anti-anxiety med
compel myself to exercise alone
make (sometimes unfulfilling) efforts at connection
check in from a social distance on loved ones
and deal with this ache in my belly that might be loneliness, might be fear, or might just be heightened awareness of our shared vulnerability.
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I keep painting.
And a quiet prayer tumbles around in my heart.
A Prayer for Each of Us Experiencing Loneliness 🙏
May we breathe
May we be courageous to feel the breadth and depth of our loneliness
May we be gentle with the ache
May we be curious with the origins of this discomfort
May we trace the root of this feeling back
to our connection with all humanity
May we remember those known and unknown
who share this ache
May we stretch into the ways this ache is born of something beautiful
our true belonging.
May we feel that belonging
beyond appearance of separation.
May we feel that true belonging ready to
catch us
wrap us
swaddle us
rock us
back to a place of rest and ease.
May we fall into a love that holds us
without our needing to see or know or believe it at all.
May we rest in a spacious belonging
like earth held in rotation of the sun
No visible attachment
Appearing separate
And yet in constant relationship and bond.
Amen.
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Daffodil painting pictured, "Belonging" (c) Bronwen Mayer Henry 30" x 40" AVAILABLE
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