You Must Not Hide Your Power

No, you must not hide your power
Nor stuff it in a shell of smallness
in some attempt at bland conformity;
Must not succumb to thoughts that say
To cloak your power
would make you more like others,
More acceptable, more lovable,
Deserving of more care —
That, to fit in, you must be small like them.

No one is small!
And you must not be fooled
by shells that make them seem so
or games that shells may seem to play.

If you stand up
And breathe into the depth
of your own power
You will awaken
a rush of recognition
And hear the ripping
of all the shells of smallness
Cracking open, falling off from all the others
Who each have found their power
And now step free.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 17, 2013

The journey toward our beauty is a magnificent struggle.

Achieving an integrity between what we believe and how we live is a challenge worthy of the gift of life.

A thousand obstacles stand between our selves and the honoring of our truth. ...

A thousand distractions. ...A thousand ego-generated delusions.

To dive down, find the beauty, nurture it and offer it to the world is magnificent.

Staying with your beauty, your truth, your integrity is difficult,
but out of these things comes meaning, and meaning is all-transcendent.

~Rod MacIver

A lovely poem from a wise friend of mine. May we all know the truth of these words.


Resolutions

As Cassandra knew,
Seeing someone’s future
is no more useful
than seeing someone’s problem —
You can’t tell them about it
Can’t get them to believe, or to reform

It shouldn’t be surprising —
No one else is different from ourselves
And we have always found
these resolutions to reform
to be contrary escalators
Plunging downward
much more rapidly
than we can rise.

Close your eyes
The winter sun that sparkles on the water
Still flickers, strobe-like, underneath your lids
The light still loves you,
Still knows how to touch
each dream that you, from fear of failure, hid
Your truth still owns you, and it knows
how every part of you is put together
Already worthy, cherished, ever whole
Not needing harsh reform to make you better
No need to reinvent yourself, no way to fall
And as it is with us
it is with all.

©Wendy Mulhern
January 1, 2013

"Do not fight against pain; do not fight against irritation or jealousy. Embrace them with great tenderness, as though you were embracing a little baby. Your anger is yourself, and you should not be violent toward it. The same thing goes for all of your emotions." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Unconditional Love is so unconditional that it even embraces our failure to Love unconditionally. ~Audrey Lou Chambers

"Problems", big or small, are opportunities to make a change. It is fascinating how we keep getting presented with the same problems, again and again, until we make the choice to change.