From My Open Heart to Yours...

Let us in this day be willing to take the risk that love always demands, to allow ourselves to become utterly naked, exposed, and vulnerable – setting aside our spiritual fantasies, goals, stories, and fixation of “me and my experiences” – even if only for a few moments.

And then let us behold directly the precious gift of this life as it is, as we breathe out from the heart, see out through the heart, touch another through the heart, speak sweet and kind words to another through the heart, and listen through the heart to the rainfall of grace as it keeps the sun, moon, planets, stars, and galaxies from falling out of the sky.

~Matt Licata

Last month within a span of a handful of days, my extended family welcomed the birth of a precious boy being and mourned the loss of a vivacious, precious 23 year old girl child/young woman.

There have been tears of joy sprung from the well of the heart. There have been tears of sadness sprung from the well of the heart. There have been smiles and delight in the imagined future, and, smiles and delight in the remembering.

Knowing that all over this magnificent blue/green orb there are 7.2 billion humans coming and going in family after family, my heart cracks open yet again and a tender compassion and love for all of us pours out.

In this season of love, may your heart remain open, receptive and vulnerable to all of life.

From my open heart to yours,

Teresa, spirit of Thule, Tucker, Huxley and all at Paradise Found