299: What is Most Holy in Me

We easily forget that inside us, and inside everyone, is something delicate, solid, sweet, and very tender - a source of life and dignity and care. And when we forget this it’s easy to treat the surface of things - our disagreements, our hurriedness, our fear - as what is most true. But it’s the depth of being human that gives us access to the most life-giving of gifts we each have to bring. Can we find our way back to contact with this depth, this holiness, in our everyday lives and relationships, and navigate life’s complexity from there?



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What is Most Holy In Me



Something exquisitely sweet and tender, like a hummingbird’s tongue.

Some kernel of something, a breath.

If I hold still enough, I can feel it.

If I move slowly enough, I can hold it in both hands, gingerly, like an offering.

I have to be quiet to be with it – move too fast and it feels like I may lose it, like holding a tiny feather without gripping it.

But I know it’s also lodged in there, in here, like the tree I saw that had grown through and around a fence. “I’m not going anywhere”.

This delicate, solid, holy thing.



Another breath, another flutter.



What is most holy in me?

That part that wants to cry out and weep with the world these days and drop onto the sidewalk, exhausted.

But also to feel the gentle warmth of the sun on my skin once I’m down there.



Anna Rich, from ‘Please Scream Inside Your Heart’

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