THE WAY OF LOVE

Listening to the heart
I am all that I love

Love is why I came
Love is my practice
Love is why I remain

Pure heart beckons me
into the steady beat
where everything
but love falls away

Love is why I came
Love is my practice
Love is why I remain

This poem rests at the seat of my emotions as I paint ceramic hearts and spirals. The reminder arises to sit in the silence where everything and nothing witnesses time. Restful creativity carries the capacity to rise above the struggles of seeing and feeling, reason and season, letting everything wash over as a practice of releasing life’s stresses. Art softens the heart and clears the head. Once again, the power of love, beauty, and blessing seizes the day.

The heart is boundless they say, even though it wonders and wanders as it seeks to be fierce and fearless. Even when it loves, it multiplies and divides. There is no denying that the heart fights and flights, pretends, and hides away. With all the changes and challenges being served up, what’s the heart to do? It’s a question each of us ask many times along the path, and resolution comes in its own timing, in its own way.

What I’m discovering is that stability lives in the heart. It cannot be secured outside of us, and yet we try so hard to make it so. Because constant change is at our doorstep, the capacity to listen to spirit is our way forward. Strengthening our connection with internal wisdom is to know the difference between the voice of spirit and the fear-based voices running amok. The Art of Inner Listening is an essential tool for navigating. Time alone with the heart of sacred mystery is reflective, insightful, and healing, reminding us of what is real.

When resonant hearts touch one another, the wellspring of spirit sings. From this place,
I offer the following soul-inspired poetic snippets from my RenPen collection.

Universal Love
Beloved, remember
the sacred inscribed
into your beginnings
ancient echoes
of a still small voice
whispering timeless wisdom
to inspire, guide, and soothe you.

Into the Heart
walking the edge
maintaining center
a superhuman task
along the earth journey
reminding us
who we truly are
behind the images we wear.

Love Comes
in truth you know
in truth you grow
be true to you.

Love is Energy
Living the journey honestly
allows the heart to shine
sweet succulence
divine essence in motion
purrs, pulses, and tingles
with a Higher Love
worth living for!

Romancing the Heart
cupping my hand
over my heart
I feel the warm pulse
that keeps me alive
and i think to myself
what a miracle it is
even with the ups and downs
and all arounds.

The One Heart Way
calls us to surrender
into the lotus of love
where seed pod potential
holds the whole of creation
life, death, rebirth
the sacred cycle turns
let your heart hold you
out of respect for
the human condition
from dirty roots
into exquisite flowers
unfolding the
One Heart Way.

Love is a Subtle Stream
that pulses heart to heart
gestures of caring and sharing
lift each other up
kindness is signed, sealed,
and delivered everyday
together, we carry on
spreading precious
love-affirming moments
because these are the
sacred threads that bind us.