Author: Anne

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START CLOSE IN

Start close in,

don’t take the second step

or the third,

start with the first

thing

close in,

the step

you don’t want to take.

…

Start right now

take a small step

you can call your own

don’t follow

someone else’s

heroics, be humble

and focused,

start close in,

don’t mistake

that other

for your own.

 

Start close in,

don’t take the second step

or the third,

start with the first

thing

close in,

the step

you don’t want to take.

Poem by David Whyte from his book RIVER FLOW New and Selected Poems

REFLECTION:

  • Is there a step you don’t want to take or have been delaying? What is it?
  • What is the first thing, the first step close in you need to take?”
  • Be bold and brave – take the step you can call your own.

Love Can Build A Bridge

“Love Can Build A Bridge”

I’d gladly walk across the desert
With no shoes upon my feet
To share with you the last bite
Of bread I had to eat
I would swim out to save you
In your sea of broken dreams
When all your hopes are sinkin’
Let me show you what love means

Love can build a bridge
Between your heart and mine
Love can build a bridge
Don’t you think it’s time?
Don’t you think it’s time?

I would whisper love so loudly
Every heart could understand
That love and only love
Can join the tribes of man
I would give my heart’s desire
So that you might see
The first step is to realize
That it all begins with you and me

When we stand together
It’s our finest hour
We can do anything, anything
Keep believin’ in the power

Love and only love
Love and only love

Words to: Love Can Build A Bridge sung by The Judds 1990
 
Songwriters: John Barlow Jarvis / Naomi Ellen Judd / Paul Overstreet
Love Can Build A Bridge lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Mike Curb Music 

REFLECTION:

  • How do you show love?
  • Is there someone you are in relationship with whom there is a divide?
  • What if you could build a bridge?  Are you willing to try? 
  • How can you build a bridge?  Don’t you think it’s time?  Don’t you think it’s time? 
  • Start today because you can do anything, anything… with love and only love!

THE BIG QUESTION?

You must constantly ask yourself these questions:  Who am I around?  What are they doing to me?  What have they got me reading?  What have they got me saying?  Where do they have me going?  What do they have me thinking?  And most important, who do they have me becoming?  Then ask yourself the big question:  Is that okay?  Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Quote by Jim Rohm

REFLECTION:

  • As we begin to turn the page on 2020, reflecting on your life and the people in it, who have you become?
  • Is that okay?
  • What changes do you want to commit to in 2021?