Welcome,
A place to start.
We each have so many familiar patterns and events to welcome us.
Even a non-welcome can be familiar.
Allow the life you have created to welcome you,
Like slipping on a friendly old pair of blue jeans.
The silence waits for you too.
Put on the silence and feel its familiarity and comfort.
Sit with silence.
Remember that all day long it is nearby,
Waiting and available to you.
I sit here in my body and you in yours,
Feeling certain parts of myself that are touching the floor,
Supported by the chair,
Each part reminded of itself and its function by physical contact.
The connections bring reminders of life.
When the willingness to feel finds a feeling on its search,
The feeling is contacted and awareness begins,
The first step toward expression and healing.
Again,
No matter what the feeling,
Extend your welcome to it.
So too with your soul.
Your willingness to acknowledge your depth and breath connects you to the universe,
To all those who have come before and all those who are yet to come.
You are already connected.
Go into this day with the knowledge of your place,
With the knowledge that you have a definite place in the world.
Everything you do,
Like pulling on that old pair of blue jeans,
Everything you are,
Reminds you that you are home.
Your gift today is contact.