For these, I am thankful

For trust & hope

For Joy
And the beauty in each day

For Larry

Who has wooed me

with lilies

For Retreats
On Star and Appledore
& New Harbor, Maine

For Music
That soothes
comforts
lifts my spirit
opens my heart
moves my body

For Books
To fall into
fall in love with
& read again
& some again

It doesn’t matter why something happens.

It doesn’t matter why something happens.

Why you got cancer or why you lost your hair
or why you got into a car accident.

What matters is what you do with it.
What matters is how you use it.
What matters is getting your life back.

And since all you have to work with is who you are
and what you’re given,
you might at well use them.

We are more than our hair, our faces, our bodies, our relationships.
But we will never know that
until we understand the images
that keep us from remembering ourselves.

When they are recognized, they dissolve.
And when they dissolve,
we become that much freer
to be the vastness of who we are.

Geneen Roth