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\nWhat might come if we could, as Julia Fehrenbacher writes, make a home inside ourselves, a shelter of kindness that grows all the truest things? It seems to us that doing exactly that is of great support to our courage, our blossoming, our bringing ourselves to the world with both strength and gentleness, and with the truthfulness our relationships deserve.
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\nSo much of the time our inner harshness - when we have not learned how to grow a kind, welcoming place inside us - gets projected out into the world, and onto others. And often we try to seek reassurance and kindness from others, when it would be much more life-giving to first grow it in ourselves.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nThe Most Important Thing
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\nI am making a home inside myself. A shelter
\nof kindness where everything
\nis forgiven, everything allowed\u2014a quiet patch
\nof sunlight to stretch out without hurry,
\nwhere all that has been banished
\nand buried is welcomed, spoken, listened to\u2014released.
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\nA fiercely friendly place I can claim as my very own.
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\nI am throwing arms open
\nto the whole of myself\u2014especially the fearful,
\nfault-finding, falling apart, unfinished parts, knowing
\nevery seed and weed, every drop
\nof rain, has made the soil richer.
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\nI will light a candle, pour a hot cup of tea, gather
\naround the warmth of my own blazing fire. I will howl
\nif I want to, knowing this flame can burn through
\nany perceived problem, any prescribed perfectionism,
\nany lying limitation, every heavy thing.
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\nI am making a home inside myself
\nwhere grace blooms in grand and glorious
\nabundance, a shelter of kindness that grows
\nall the truest things.
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\nI whisper hallelujah to the friendly
\nsky. Watch now as I burst into blossom.
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\nJulia Fehrenbacher
\nwww.juliafehrenbacher.com
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\nPhoto by Arno Smit on Unsplash
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