For You, I Wish the Intangible




I see the lights outside eager homes. I hear the music play throughout department store walls and there is an excitement on the children’s faces that remind us another year has passed. It is holiday season once more. A time to celebrate, to express love and kindness… Our country is at war, politicians launch battles against one another, and parents can’t leave children outside to play. These tragedies I speak of do not remove my holiday spirit, they guide it. They give me vision of what I should celebrate, how I should love and what to share. As I inscribe this Wish, I know I could address it to most, for life’s walk challenges us all. It is the holidays. I have been programmed to give you something I can wrap, something with a bow but my heart searches elsewhere. I want to give you love but I do not know how to wrap it. I want to give you respect but could not find a box big enough. I want to give you my trust but I do not think the mail carrier could carry it all… I wish for you those things you can not touch. I wish you freedom from anxieties, loneliness, and pains of the heart. I wish you the miracles gone unseen as roses blossom in backyards, winter becomes spring again and again and the sun rises to warm you each and every morning... If this holiday season I could give you anything I would wrap your fears, your tears and hold them far from your reach. I would give you enough loyalty to erase your betrayals and any sadness… This holiday season I will wrap you a gift, but “I love you” is what I mean to give.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010




I am frozen with uncertainty not knowing which way to move, forward or backwards, to the left or to the right, in a song with no lyrics. Fear, suspicions and doubt rob my harmony. I breathe deep, then deeper, and then I breathe again. I follow the soft flow of my breath as I inhale and exhale noticing the steady rhythm that calms me. It is there in this perfect exchange of give and take that life reminds me to give out exactly what I wish to take in. If I proceed with hostility, judgment and resentment then it is hostility, judgment and resentment that will find me. If I proceed with love, trust, and gratitude then it is love, trust and gratitude that will find me. Therefore, I write the lyrics to the song I wish to sing. I create the harmony and rhythm in my life and I precede giving out exactly what I seek to take in. Like the perfect breath that sustains you, I wish for you the song you wish to sing.
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