The New Year is here and it brings on so many thoughts. What
has transpired over the past and where we are right now? Dreams of our future
and what we wish to accomplish. All these things bombarding our minds and what
do we do with them. It brings on such melancholy, and I find myself swimming in
a sea of despondency.
Yet I fight it tooth and nail with my inner wisdom, and low and behold I ran across this message
today on Facebook and it says it all:
“Dear Human: You’ve got it all wrong.
You didn’t come here to master unconditional love.
That is where you came from and where you’ll return.
You came here to learn personal love. Universal love.
Messy love. Sweaty
love. Crazy love. Broken love. Whole love.
Infused with divinity. Lived through the grace of
stumbling.
Demonstrated through the beauty of…. messing up. Often.
You didn’t come here to be perfect. You already are.
You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and
fabulous.
And then to rise again into remembering.”
~Unknown author~
Then I remembered yet another poem that was shared with
me a couple of weeks ago by Rilke where he writes :
“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would
like to beg you, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in
your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked
rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the
answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to
live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even
noticing it, live your way into the answer”
~Rainer Maria Rilke – letters to a Young Poet~
So here is to a year of “loving the questions”!
