Let's take a moment together.
You might soften or close your eyes and place your hands on your heart and vary the pressure so it feels supportive and then feel the waves of the breath in and out.
However the breath is today,
Just like we encounter the ocean.
We go to the ocean,
We just notice how it is today,
How the tide is.
And so the same with our breath.
Feel the waves of those breaths in and out.
Feel the wave move down through your body,
Down through your throat and chest and through your belly.
You can imagine it going down into your arms and your legs and then flowing out.
Take a few breaths like that,
Receiving the flow of the breath,
Nourishing life force energy of the breath through the body,
All the way through the hands,
The palms of the hands and the soles of the feet.
And then feel the wave of nourishing breath flowing back out.
And then I'll start now with reading this poem.
Vast ocean current,
I am not turning away from love anymore.
I am done with fear holding me back from expressing the deep love that pools in my heart.
Ready like a fountain that wants to flow through my throat and formed into soft spoken words like,
I cherish you,
I love you,
I just want to be with you.
What peace washes through my whole being when I turn toward love and I swim with the vast ocean current inside my heart.
Finally,
Dear one,
There comes a time when turning away from love hasn't gotten you what you've wanted.
Maybe you've lived this way for years,
Closed down,
Giving the cold shoulder,
Hurt and so very disappointed and scared.
Scared to try,
Scared to reach out,
To take a chance,
To risk being vulnerable yet again.
Because you've been here before,
Hoping,
Trying and it not working out.
There comes a time when you see that closing yourself off just doesn't serve you anymore.
Your anger has hardened the clay of your heart.
While you find yourself alone at night,
Nestled close to your disappointment and righteousness.
There comes a time when you hear a grace call to you.
Love,
It's time to change.
It's time to stop protecting and start opening,
Opening the channels that lead to the ocean of love inside your heart.
Yes,
It is still there and the tide is rising.
It's time to open the dams that hold back that love.
Because you will not wall yourself off any longer.
Your soul can't.
The love in your heart is pooling,
Swelling and wants to flow.
Wants to run along the channel beds,
Through your body and throat and out of your mouth and into your life.
You want to speak the words of love that have been welling from within you for years now.
Your body wants to move toward love,
Even if you are scared.
Even if old habits pull you back and hiss at you to stop.
You cannot.
You must flow now with love.
Love as your current.
Love as your guide.
Love as your salvation.
Love as your ocean,
Whose nature it is to flow.
Finally.
So dear love,
It's your time to open and flow with the vast ocean current of love inside of you.
Go and flow.
