Beautiful Tendings
  • Home
  • Wedding Officiant
  • Infant Massage
  • Art
  • Ponderings Blog
  • For Educators
  • Events
    • Prior Events
  • Contact
  • About Kathy

By this measure... we are healed

3/11/2011

1 Comment

 
I can’t save you.  I can’t fix the rawness of pain and damage in Japan this morning, or the agony that penetrates the heart in the midst of disconnect in relationships.  I can’t wave a magic wand and fix the educational system or the health system.  I can’t stop her cancer.  I can’t heal his depression.  I can’t stop wars.  Goodness knows, I’m just trying to pay my bills and keep my own little boat afloat.  Some days that feels enough in and of itself.

And yet, it’s all connected, wouldn’t you say?  We’re all connected.  I am not separate from any hardship or joy for that matter.  I am not an island… and hey, even if I were, my sand will eventually become yours and your salt water is sure to baptize my shores.  My inhalation and exhalation upon my wooded land swirls through the evergreens, and they, in turn, offer their breath to the wider expanse.  The children huddled together in fear in Afghanistan also sit with me as I break bread at my candlelit table.  The teachers weary from so much daily outpouring walk with me in meditative spaces of refreshment.  The elders in retirement communities, who breathe stale air and sit in bland curtained rooms, paint with me in the brightest colors outside in the sunlight.  The hungry roam with me through overstocked grocery stores.  The sad snuggle up close under my umbrella.  And every life that dances with joy spins with me in delight when I laugh with my nieces.

We each get lost sometimes.  We each bump into heartbreaking times of isolation and desperation. We can forget the larger picture, the beautiful tapestry that we can really only see or embrace once we come out from underneath the workings.  But I hope, and I do pray, that as you each find your way, it helps to know I am beside you as stranger or as friend.  I believe in your divine goodness and in the gifts you so wondrously hold.  I believe, for you and for me, that even in our darkness, in our darkest moments, there are small embers burning everywhere… everywhere… that sustain us in ways we can only remotely grasp.

Yes.  Send the medicine.  Yes.  Rebuild the homes.  Feed the hungry.  Comfort the weak.  But when all else fails, when your own spiritual and worldly resources are limited and you have utterly no idea how to personally aid in the healing of this world, find your quiet place and invite the wounded to sit alongside of you. 

The winter goldfinches are tinged in yellow, and by our witness their brown turns to gold.

1 Comment
Robin Barre link
3/11/2011 04:10:18 pm

So beautiful, Kathy. Truly lovely. You are doing the work of compassionate letting go, of caring with your hands and arms wide open. So powerful. Blessings.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Kathy Guisewite

    "To be about there
      first attend to what is here
      everything connects."  KFG

    Archives

    April 2020
    March 2020
    December 2019
    June 2019
    April 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    September 2016
    August 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.