Let Life Open You

Let life open you.

Otherwise your gifts

remain unopened. 

Pain comes to teach us,

her wisdom simple and deep.

She is patient and persistent.

Tenderly or loudly, she calls us back

to something inside

we have denied.

When the time comes,

meet the familiar pain with

a fresh willingness to listen.

Let the incoming wave of truth

wash over you, like cooling waters.

What was denied, now welcomed.

What was judged, now blessed.

Moving from fear into trust,

meet the invitation to heal as

grace, the opening your soul

has yearned for…

Once you know how much life

yearns for your touch,

your unique beauty,

you will forget everything

and run like a child

into sunlit fields,

laughing.

© Sophia Murphy