Walking the Passage: Did you ache?

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Did you ache?

Did you ache?

Did you stand out on the balcony of your home watching the horizon?

Did you stand at your door leaning up against its frame begging it to hold you up as your heart weighed you down?

Did everything in you remember his smell, his smile, his voice, his touch?

Did every part of your heart ache to the place it felt like it was going to burst without him?

Did the night hours find you sleepless as your mind wondered how he was and if he was safe?

Did your cheeks receive the rivers of tears that were shed?

Did your mind think it was a mirage at first glance?

Did your heart lodge in your throat?

Did you trip over your robes as your feet hit the ground running?

Did everything in erupt and burst into joy as you touched his flesh and took him in?

Did your nose take in the sweet fragrance of your son though it really should have been pig slop that you smelled?

Did your hands trembled as you put the family ring upon his finger and clothe him with your cloak ?

Did you gasp out the words between joy and tears as you declared your son was home?

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.