Lift Yourself – A Benediction in Troubling Times

Lift yourself.
Buoy yourself on the rising tides of Universal love.
Universal Acceptance.

It can lift you from the dry, cracked shore of desolation.
Lift you from the repetitious life that lulls you to complacent sleep.
Lift you to heights of joy,
afloat on seas with endless horizons of possibility.

Begin within yourself,
Each place that runs dry, fill with a rush of flourishing love
Let it rush in, and through you until it pours over and out the sides

Until each desiccated hope, withered on the scowls and tongues of others,
renews and revives, stretching itself far and wide to see how far possibility goes.

Let the dry caked earth, scorched beneath the heat of hatred, hurt and harm
at the hands of others — hardened into a survival crust, let it soften at last to renew it’s
REAL vigor
REAL vitality
REAL fertility

A different strength and power, alive
Not dry and crumbling like old bread, in the clenched fists of aging men

Find love, that essential source
and turn all the taps wide open on the fountain
let it spill over its sides and flush all fear, worry and pain aside, carrying the dirt of past suffering and experience with it

Cleansing you as it lifts you on it’s rising waters
Until you can again see
That perfect horizon
That clear blue ocean
That clear blue sky
That clear true YOU.

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