A PRAYER
Refuse to fall down.
If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down.
If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that if be filled.
You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you.
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening.
FROM: Clarissa Pinkola Estes, THE FAITHFUL GARDNER: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph. D. is an internationally know poet, psychoanalyst and author of the classic: Women Who run With the Wolves.
REFLECTION:
- Have you “fallen down?”
- Have you refused to stay down?
- Have you been able to lift your heart toward heaven?
- Is there a situation (misery) that you are experiencing now or in the recent past that you can view the good that has come from it?
- Are you listening?