Sunday, May 24, 2009

this heart

To live, to hope, to dream again.It’s God within, lifting up my head.My heart healed and I was unaware until it opened up to invite someone in for the first time in too long.This someone declined the invitation and I confess I was a hot mess for a minute. Or a day. Or a week. I can’t recall. “To hell with all men everywhere,” I said, “and too bad I’m not a lesbian.” But when the fog cleared, it dawned on me that I had dared to live, to hope, to dream again, against all odds. And I was proud. And thankful. I had been excommunicated from the walking dead. Oh, to live and not feel!It cannot be. What is this stubborn heart, battered, bruised, bleeding, flatlining… then having the audacity to embrace resurrection overruling my mind’s objection every time.

What is this heart?

It is God within willing me to love, to hope, to dream again.

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